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Mike Sinclair - Editor in Chief
Mike Sinclair has been testing and writing about cars, motorcycles (and a bunch of other things with engines in them) for more than 20 years. In on the ground floor of the online editorial explosion, Mike helped launch CarPoint.com.au, as well as the country's leading mainstream motorcycle and marine editorial sites more than a decade ago.
motoring.com.au and the Carsales Network's Editor-in-Chief since the Noughties, Mike is a fan of a wide range of motorsport disciplines and regularly participates in tarmac rallying. But his garage is distinctly lacking in four-wheelers currently... Pride of place is taken by motorcycles including a 1990-model Buell, two Hondas and a long suffering dirtbike.
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Ken Gratton - News Editor
Ken Gratton has been the news editor at Carsales for four years and has previously worked with other publishers including Glass's Guide and RL Polk Australia. Based in Melbourne he shares a home with wife and two kids, one of whom is a budding race caller for the V8s. Ken grew up with rallying, autocross and motorkhanas in a four-cylinder Ford family – but was seduced to the dark side by L-Series Datsun engines and semi-trailing arm IRS.
His highlight for 2011 was taking the new BMW M5 for a quick series of laps at the Ascari racing circuit in Spain. In recent years he has taken more of an interest in alternative energy options for the future, but still loves 'car' films such as Ronin, Bullit, The Italian Job (1969) and recent example of the genre, Drive.
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Matt Brogan - Road Test Editor
Matt Brogan has been with carsales for just over a year. His working life began as an apprentice panel beater, and Matt has since worked in fields including motoring journalism, fleet leasing and aircraft engineering.
A fan of anything with wings or wheels, Matt's motoring interests extend to 1970s Muscle (his classic Monaro is a cracker!), British motorcycles (including modern ones) and European hot hatches -- though it's not unheard of to find him off-roading in a 4x4 or dirt biking in South-East Asia.
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Melissa McCormick - Senior Staff Journalist
Melissa McCormick started as a sub-editor for Australia's longest-running motorsport magazine, Auto Action, in 2001. Soon after she took over the National Editor role, covering state racing for the weekly publication, then joined the small crew that formed CarPoint. That crew is now a lot bigger and belongs to carsales... And she's never been happier. Likes include the Le Mans 24 Hour race, Honda monkey bikes and Segways.
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Chris Fincham - Staff Journalist
A motoring journalist for more than 10 years, Chris Fincham has driven and written about a wide variety of cars spanning the history of the automobile. An eight-year stint as editor of Unique Cars magazine fostered a passion for classic V8 muscle, and at one time he was the proud owner of a 1966 Ford Mustang.
Switching from print to online, Chris has more recently discovered the delights of recreational vehicles as a contributor to caravancampingsales.com.au. As part of the carsales/motoring.com.au team he has gone from reviewing classic cars to more mainstream runabouts -- from peoplemovers to pick ups. He's also tested off-road vehicles on some of Australia's most challenging terrain including the legendary Canning Stock Route in Western Australia.
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Feann Torr - Staff Journalist
Working as online automotive journalist since 2003, Feann Torr is passionate about both cars and motorcycles -- though don't ask him which he prefers (you'll never hear the end of it). Regularly reviewing cars and motorcycles for Carsales/motoring.com.au and the Bikesales Networks, he currently owns a Honda CBR600. His first car was a 1979 Ford Falcon XC but Feann now owns a Commodore. Go figure.
Feann is a hot hatch tragic, having competed in several Australian Tarmac Challenges (Dutton Rallies) in everything from the Mazda3 MPS to the Renault Clio RS200. He also enjoys more frugal cars, and took part in the Global Green Challenge in a Suzuki Alto, driving from Alice Springs to Adelaide on the whiff of an oily rag.
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Jeremy Bass - Contributing Journalist
Jeremy Bass joined the carsales/motoring.com.au team in 2008 with more than two decades' experience writing about technology and its impact on the way we live. He wangled his way onboard fresh from a stretch in men's' lifestyle journalism.
Jeremy sees working as the network's green car contributor as a vantage point from which to witness and report on one of the fundamental conflicts of our time.
"We completely reorganised our lives around the mass-produced car less than a century ago. Now we have to completely reorganise it all again. I get to report on that, and get a look into the product along the way -- all for one of the nation's more successful media outlets. It'd be an ingrate who found cause for complaint."
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Tim Britten Esq - Contributing Journalist
If you ask when Tim first started out as a motoring writer, he's likely to tell you it's none of your business. Which is probably a pity because he's forgotten more than most people today know about cars and the car industry.
Let's just say he started when Volkswagen Beetles (the originals) were de rigueur and Holden had just launched its safer, more luxurious and more refined HK. In subsequent years as editor of Motor Manual magazine (which became Car Australia, also under his editorship, in 1986) he actually road-tested Phase III Falcon GTs, and even Chrysler Valiant Chargers, Six Pack and Track Pack varieties.
Today, after seeing the world through other eyes via a community newspaper in London, a rock 'n roll newspaper in Melbourne and Street Machine magazine in Sydney, plus PR stints at a national welfare organisation and a Melbourne-based European car importer, his world view has changed from the early days as a delivery boy in an advertising agency (he worked in land surveying too, in case you ask).
Contrary to what might be expected of a motoring writer, his extensive list of cars owned contains no exotica, but does include a few VWs, numbered among which is the pristine, original 1971 model Beetle he owns today. In a touching display of company loyalty and environmental concern, it parks in the family garage alongside his diesel Tiguan.
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