Adam Binnie

Adam grew up in the family garage helping Dad fix his motorcycles and has been fanatical about anything with an engine ever since.

Now he looks after the Bauer Media’s product test team, but he had a stint as New Cars Editor at CAR, which involved running the First Drives section, planning and commissioning the most important new road tests for the mag every month.

As a road tester he’s driven everything from an armoured Skoda Superb to a rally-prepped Jaguar F-Type; he’s shared a Porsche Cayman GT4 around Knockhill with Walter Röhrl and squeezed into a three-quarter sized Bugatti Type 35 race car.

Outside of work, he’s usually found on his mountain bike, at a gig, or driving radio control cars with his son.

Writing

Adam joined the Parkers and CAR road test team in 2015, leaving behind a career as newspaper reporter. He studied English at University and has been writing about things he finds interesting his entire life.

He’s been a journalist for 15 years, contributing news, road tests and reviews to MCN, Parkers and CAR Magazine (and CAR Products), as well as The Telegraph, Yours, The Independent, Mother&Baby, RiDE, Closer, Modern Gardens.

Car accessories

Believing that a car is never complete unless it has something attached to the roof or tow bar, Adam is always looking for a new way to transport bulky sports equipment around.

Whether it’s a bike or a canoe, or simply a way of getting his son’s RC race set up in the boot without squashing something expensive, there are no practicality solutions too complex.

Adam is an expert in...

• Bike carriers

• Car cleaning

• Sim racing

Adam's top tips for CAR readers are:

“Consider buying a bike rack with one or two more carriers than you think you need – it’s better to have too much capacity than too little.”

“Roof rails are a superb, flexible solution for carrying bikes, but a folding tow-bar mounted rack is the ultimate luxury.”