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JOURNALISM | AUTHOR | EDITOR | HISTORIAN | Giles Chapman has been a motoring journalist for 20 years, starting his career with Classic & Sports Car magazine at Haymarket Publishing in 1985. By 1988, he had a regular column in Autocar magazine and, until 1994, his work appeared in numerous Haymarket titles. Since going full-time freelance in 1994, his writing has appeared in countless magazines and newspapers. In particular, his regular ‘Cars That Time Forgot’ series was a fixture of the Daily Telegraph’s Saturday Motoring section. Other newspapers he writes for include The Independent (features and obituaries), Daily and Sunday Express, Sunday Times, Financial Times and Mail on Sunday. He is also a regular contributor to BBC Top Gear magazine, Auto Express, and Test Drive the Automobile Year international yearbook, and has been commissioned many times to write for customer magazines for such marques as Alfa Romeo, Audi, BMW, Chrysler Jeep, Fiat, Land Rover, Lexus, MG, the RAC and Vauxhall. Giles Chapman is the author of eight books: The World’s Fastest cars (1990), Cars That Time Forgot (1997), Moving Objects (1999, with design critic Stephen Bayley) The Worst Cars Ever Sold in Britain (2001), Mad Cars (2002), Fast Cars (2003), SUV and Car Badges (both to be published in the autumn 2005). Giles Chapman became a magazine editor at 24 — one of the youngest editors at Haymarket Publishing at the time, 1989; he was launch editor on Your Classic, before moving on to edit Classic & Sports Car and then becoming group editor of both Classic & Sports Car and AutoClassic. Since 1994, he has also edited one-shot magazines for IPC, the Daily Telegraph and Haymarket Publishing, including the official catalogue for the British International Motor Show, and Get Motoring magazine. For River Publishing, he edited Pure Lotus magazine. He has also undertaken editing and rewriting work for book publishers including Merrell Publishing, Palawan Press and Dalto Watson Fine Books, and picture-research work for Mitchell Beazley. Giles Chapman’s detailed research for Autocar’s 100th anniversary issue in 1994 won him a Jet Media Excellence award in 1996, and his writing has revealed many important and often-quoted stories relating to the history of the car. Giles Chapman’s skills have been put to good use by advertising agencies and other organisations. He has written text for sales brochures for both MG and Toyota, and worked on countless projects — both consumer and below-the-line, commercial and charitable — where a delicate balance between information and entertainment is crucial. Giles Chapman has appeared frequently on BBC and commercial radio and televison, talking about various car- and motoring-related issues. In 2002, he chaired a debate at London’s Science Museum on women and cars. Giles Chapman has undertaken several research projects for world-famous organisations including Maserati, Chrysler, Lliadro porcelain and Brioni tailoring. While the precise details of this work must, by their nature, remain confidential, all of this work has contributed, albeit in small part, to substantial business gains for the brands involved.
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