James Taylor has been researching and writing about motoring history since the late 1970s. He has written widely in the motoring press in the UK and abroad, and is author more than eighty books, many of them for Crowood. He is known and respected for the detailed research that goes into his writing. The products of the Rover Company and its descendants have always been his first love and his major specialization, and he was fonding editor of Land Rover Enthusiast magazine.