Antony is a freelance motoring writer with more than 15 years of experience in everything from the latest wave of hybrid and electric vehicles, to sports cars, supercars and classics. His career kicked off covering the burgeoning electric car industry for the US-based Green Car Reports, during which time he also wrote a book on the world’s best-selling roadster, the Mazda MX-5, for Crowood Press.
Antony then spent six years as a staff writer at evo writing about the world’s most exciting cars. From there he moved onto a stint as Assistant Editor at Hagerty promoting the joy of classic cars, before going freelance – and covering just about everything with a steering wheel.
Antony says…
“The car industry might have a reputation for moving slowly compared to say, the world of consumer tech, but that couldn’t be more wrong. It’s one of the most dynamic industries on the planet and employs thousands of hugely talented people, who all play a role in the cars we drive. I enjoy nothing more than getting behind the wheel and articulating what makes a car good or bad, but at Auto Express it’s just as important – and just as interesting – to cover the industry, the engineers, the designers, the technology, the legislation, and every other factor related to that humble device with four wheels sitting in front of your house.”
Antony Ingram’s main areas of expertise
- Sports cars
- Hot hatchbacks
- Classic cars
- Industry and car culture
Antony Ingram Q&A…
Q: What was your first car?
I started driving in 2003 and picked up a 1998 Ford Fiesta 1.3 Finesse shortly after passing my test. It was pretty back-to-basics by today’s supermini standards but drove as well as I’d been led to believe by all the reviews, didn’t break down, and was only modestly rusty by the time I sold it six years later.
Q: What is your dream car?
I’m fortunate enough to own one of them: a third-generation Mazda RX-7, though I can’t say I dreamt about the hefty bills when I was racing them on Gran Turismo as a teenager. My perfect everyday car though would be the modern Alpine A110.
Q: If you could change one thing about cars, driving or the car industry today what would it be?
The size and weight of modern vehicles is getting out of hand, and it’s only been accelerated by the move towards electrification. It’s detrimental in so many areas: the sheer volume of raw materials used to create them, the space they occupy on the road, the way weight affects ride and handling, and the extra mass involved in any accident. If the environmental impact of cars is to go down in future, they cannot weigh as much as they do today, whatever powers them.
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