Editorial and Production Credits:
Patrick Olsen, editor in chief
Lindsay Bjerregaard, multimedia coordinator
Eamonn Brennan, assistant editor
Joe Bruzek, assistant editor
Sarah Gersh, multimedia coordinator
Mike Hanley, editor
Bill Jackson, editor
Stephen Markley, assistant editor
Kelsey Mays, editor
Ian Merritt, staff photographer
Beth Palmer, copy editor
Eric Rossi, multimedia producer
David Thomas, senior editor
Amanda Wegrzyn, lead editor
Joe Wiesenfelder, senior editor
Design Credits:
Nathan Norman, art director
Shahab Bokhari, designer
Anthony Viot, designer
Author Credits:
Jerry Edgerton is a freelance automotive writer and the author of "Car Shopping Made Easy." He is also a former senior writer and automotive specialist for Money magazine.
Eric C. Evarts has been the automotive writer for The Christian Science Monitor, and has extensively covered personal finance issues there since 1996.
Jim Flammang is Cars.com’s contributing editor and a freelance automotive journalist based in Chicago. His own consumer-oriented publication, "Tirekicking Today," has been on the internet since 1995. Flammang is also the author of many auto history books, including "World’s Greatest Auto Show: Celebrating a Century in Chicago."
Jim Gorzelany is a freelance writer who has covered the latest developments in cars and trucks for nearly two decades, test-driving hundreds of makes and models on the highways and back roads of virtually every state across the country and around the world. He served most recently as managing editor for Consumers Digest magazine in Chicago.Michelle Krebs is an automotive freelance writer based in Detroit. Her articles regularly appear in The New York Times, Motor Trend, Consumers Digest and numerous other national publications.
Paul and Anita Lienert are a husband-and-wife automotive writing team. Paul Lienert is a syndicated print and web columnist who has covered the global auto industry from Detroit for 25 years. Award-winning journalist Anita Lienert is an automotive writer with The Detroit News and a partner in Automotive Intelligence Reports, a Detroit-based automotive information services company.
Tom and Ray Magliozzi are the hosts of "Car Talk," a weekly automotive advice program on National Public Radio. For their full biographies, click here.
Jim Mateja is an automotive writer renowned for his work at the Chicago Tribune. Mateja started at the Tribune in 1967 and became the paper’s automotive writer in 1970; he continues to write reviews for the Tribune. He holds a degree in education from Western Illinois University.
Stephanie Overby is a Boston-based writer who covers shopping topics for Cars.com. She has been reporting on the Certified Pre-Owned vehicle category for Cars.com since 1998.
Jeremy Rosenberg is a freelance journalist based in Los Angeles. He is the Calendar Live correspondent/columnist for the Los Angeles Times.
Linda Sharp is a former syndicated columnist for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and is an automotive columnist for Atlanta-based Jezebel magazine. She is a former instructor at the Road Atlanta Driver Training Center and taught at the Skip Barber Racing School. She also was an instructor at Saturn, where she taught automotive basics to sales consultants.
John F. Wasik is the author of "The Kitchen-Table Investor" and four other books on personal finance and investing. Wasik has contributed to dozens of national publications including Better Investing, Health, Kiplinger’s, Reader’s Digest and Smart Money magazines.Bob Weber is a Virginia-based freelance writer and former professional mechanic who became an ASE-certified Master Automobile Technician in 1976. He maintains this status by seeking certification every five years. Weber's work appears in professional trade magazines and other consumer publications. His "Motormouth" column appears weekly in the Chicago Tribune.
Photo Credits:
All vehicle images were provided by the respective manufacturers, Wieck Media Services Inc. or photographed by Cars.com.
