Matt is Autocar’s chief car reviewer, and manager of the brand’s wider test team. Among his responsibilities is the regular contribution of detailed road tests, group tests, drive stores and other features for Autocar’s magazine and website, plus videos for Autocar’s YouTube channel. Matt maintains Autocar’s exacting standards of objectivity and rigour with the testing and assessment of all new cars, and leads the team’s collective conversation that drives the thinking on test verdicts and comparative judgements.
Matt has been an Autocar staffer since the autumn of 2003, having done work experience stints on the magazine beforehand, and was editorial assistant at Stuff Magazine from 2002. He’s been lucky enough to work alongside some of the magazine’s greatest and best-known writers and contributors over that time, and served as staff writer, features editor, assistant editor and digital editor before joining the road test desk in 2011.
Since then he’s driven, measured, figured and reported on cars as varied as the Bugatti Veyron, Rolls-Royce Phantom, Tesla Roadster, Ariel Nomad, Tata Nano, Renault Twizy and Toyota Mirai. He loves the variety his job affords, and nothing matters more to him in his working role than understanding a car in its entirety, on behalf of those for whom it has been designed. Only by doing that can you earn the right to criticise.
