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Who We Are
Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty and have a manual transmission.
Steph Willems News Contributor
Steph Willems was destined to love cars after almost being born in the front seat of a Slant-Six equipped ’76 Volaré. After this brush with greatness, how can you go back? The snarky comment he got published in the pages of Automobile while still in high school sparked a trend of opinionated obnoxiousness that continues to this day. Though his career took him into the wild and wooly world of the news media, his true passion continued to be the automotive landscape (and saving the manual transmission). He can be credited for once selling a grey, four-door Grand Am in order to purchase a grey, four-door Grand Am with better rims.
Timothy Cain Vehicle Road Tester and Sales Analyst
Timothy Cain was slow to speak — by choice, not because of ability. Headway was eventually made, as up until the negotiations began between the speech therapist and the three-year-old, the only words Tim would speak were the names of cars. True story, mostly. Surely the paternally infused vehicular fascination would ultimately lead to auto industry work. After a youthful trek into category space analysis in the grocery industry, Timothy began writing car reviews in print media in 2004 and launched GoodCarBadCar.net in 2007. Timothy and his growing family live in Prince Edward Island and operate a 2015 Honda Odyssey and a 2004 Mazda MX-5 Miata as daily drivers.
Matt Posky News and Social Media Contributor
Sajeev Mehta Piston Slap Author
Murilee Martin Junkyard Finds Author
Murilee Martin got hooked on cars in early childhood when he rode in his father’s ’67 Ford Custom 500 with 289, floor-shift 3-speed, and manual overdrive. Later childhood experiences with a pair of Fiat 128s sealed the deal. He has relied on British Leyland products for daily transportation. He has owned terrible Detroit cars, terrible Japanese cars, and terrible European cars; a Competition Orange ’68 Mercury Cyclone vies with a ’76 Peugeot 504 for the position of ex-car he most wishes he could have back. His writer’s resume includes junk mail, transit-bus shop manuals, sadomasochistic pornography, and some other gigs too shameful to mention. He has worked as an Orange County performance artist. Someday he will own a GAZ-3102 Volga, because he feels that the GAZ-21 Volga lacks the requisite Brezhnevian charm.
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