George Armitage
George Armitage links new-car news, enthusiast driving stories and electric-vehicle coverage, working as a content editor across Auto Express and its dedicated EV brand. His day-to-day work mixes editing and writing, keeping the masthead’s audience up to date with trends in the motoring world while maintaining clear, accessible coverage for readers who follow both combustion and electric models. He brings a workshop and showroom background into this role, which gives his stories a practical, mechanics-first view of cars rather than a purely lifestyle angle.
New car launches and facelifts
Armitage’s Auto Express coverage includes news-led pieces on fresh model updates, such as the Renault Megane facelift for 2026, which he presents through a straightforward report supported by picture-led detail. His approach in this type of story is to identify the key changes in design and specification and frame them as part of the wider motoring landscape, rather than as isolated announcements. The tone stays functional and explanatory, geared toward readers who want to understand what is new and why it matters without heavy opinion or flourish. As a content editor, he also shapes how these launch and facelift stories sit within the site’s overall news flow, aligning them with ongoing trends in powertrains, technology and market positioning.
Enthusiast and performance drives
Alongside new-car news, Armitage has written enthusiast-focused driving pieces that revisit notable performance and handling benchmarks from recent decades. Coverage of cars such as the Honda Integra Type R, Ford Puma and Lotus Elise shows an interest in how relatively accessible, compact models can deliver distinctive driving character and dynamics. These stories typically place the cars in their historical and engineering context, using his hands-on familiarity with classic vehicles to explain why certain chassis setups, engines or ergonomics still resonate with keen drivers. The result is coverage that speaks to readers who care about feel and feedback as much as straight-line speed, highlighting how older enthusiast models sit alongside today’s more powerful but heavier machinery.
Electric car coverage and editing
Armitage also serves as content editor at DrivingElectric, the sister outlet focused on electric vehicles, where he oversees and contributes EV content while continuing to write for Auto Express. His remit there includes shaping news, reviews and features about battery-electric and plug-in hybrid cars, as well as broader themes in charging, ownership and the transition to electrified motoring. This dual role means his work often bridges the gap between traditional motoring coverage and specialist EV reporting, helping readers navigate new technology within familiar car-buying frameworks. The editorial responsibility across both titles keeps his EV stories aligned with the same clear, practical tone seen in his combustion-car coverage, focusing on usability, real-world range and value rather than abstract technical jargon.
Workshop and sales background
Before moving into full-time journalism and editing, Armitage worked restoring classic cars and later in the car sales industry, experience he now channels into his writing and commissioning. The restoration work gives him fluency in the mechanical side of motoring, which surfaces in pieces that attend closely to engineering details and build quality. Time spent in sales adds insight into how buyers actually choose cars, informing coverage that treats pricing, specifications and trim decisions as central elements rather than afterthoughts. That blend of workshop and showroom experience underpins his current output at Auto Express and DrivingElectric, where the emphasis falls on clear explanations of what a car is like to own, drive and live with, grounded in how the market really operates.
4 more automobile journalists.
Aarian Marshall
Aarian Marshall is a staff writer at WIRED who stands out for covering how cars, software, and policy collide. She writes on transportation systems and cities, from the auto industry to broader mobility systems. Before WIRED, she reported on cities and urban policy for The Atlantic’s CityLab. Her beat runs from electric vehicles, fuel prices, tariffs, and car-buying decisions to autonomous vehicles, robotaxis, and software-defined cars. She reports with a systems view, linking policy shifts, technical failures, and urban life to what happens on streets, in repair shops, and at the pump.
Adrian Leung
Adrian Leung writes engineering-led coverage of Chinese electric vehicles and performance cars for CarNewsChina. He focuses on new energy vehicles, battery systems, powertrains, electric platforms, high-end domestic brands, and track-ready models, and he explains technical details in plain language for non-specialist readers. His reporting treats new models as hardware and systems stories, with precise figures on range, battery capacity, chassis layout, motor outputs, weight, and acceleration. He also covers the Chinese auto industry’s finances and technology roadmap, including sector profits, vehicle volumes, and solid-state battery timelines. His background in Electrical and Computer Engineering shows in the way he writes about vehicle electronics and battery management.
Al Pefley
Al Pefley is a television news reporter for CBS12 News whose work centers on how laws, law enforcement and local decisions shape everyday life for drivers and other residents. He reports in a general assignment role but returns often to transportation, public safety and pocketbook issues, treating driving as a point where policy, disability and policing intersect. His coverage includes driver-focused laws, fuel and tax policy, crime, policing and internal affairs findings, with a consistent focus on accountability and concrete consequences for people’s wallets, safety and trust in institutions. He explains county gas tax debates, campaign positions on teacher pay, property crime and retail theft in short, clear segments. Pefley works primarily on the scene, using live or recorded field reporting and interview-driven pieces to show what happened, why it matters and what comes next.
Aliza Savira
Aliza Savira focuses on the hidden financial costs of owning modern cars, especially how insurance can undermine expected savings. She writes about automobiles for MSN, looking at new technology and electric vehicles through everyday ownership rather than showroom appeal. Her work highlights the gap between promises of cheaper running costs and the full financial picture of owning a vehicle. In electric vehicle coverage, she treats insurance premiums as a key ownership problem that can erode long-term value. She stays close to practical questions drivers face, such as which recurring costs matter most after purchase. She reports on how insurance structures and premium levels interact with new automotive technology. Her beat is consumer-focused automobile reporting, with a clear, utilitarian lens on ownership experience, recurring expenses, and risk, rather than lifestyle or performance.