101Vicky probably should have been a driving instructor. Learning to drive at a very young age, she went on to teach countless friends how to drive a car and ride a motorbike. With only one of her students ever crashing under her guidance.

Her enthusiasm for cars comes from her father and sister who both dabbled in motorsport, and helping/ getting in the way of her brothers tinkering with engines in the farm workshop.

Combining her lust for adventure and fast cars, Vicky's first job in publishing was as photojournalist masquerading as the proof-reader across three outdoor titles, Caravan and Outdoor Life, Leisure Boating and SA4x4. It was while working on SA4x4 that the motoring journalism bug really bit. From there, she moved to GQ magazine which, as luck would have it, launched GQ Cars, a quarterly motoring magazine with a difference.

Vicky was assistant editor on both titles until she went freelance at the beginning of 2008. She's now the motoring writer for GLAMOUR and Conde Nast House & Garden magazines. Despite her great love for cars, fast and slow, new and old, she does grapple with the green issue...