Mel Nichols

Mel Nichols is one of the worldAEs most influential car magazine writers and editors. In his early career in his native Australia he was Deputy Editor of Wheels, the countryAEs top car magazine, and Editor of Sports Car World. He moved to London to become Editor of Car from 1974 to 1981, and from 1987 to 2009 he was Editorial Director of Haymarket Consumer Media, responsible for leading car magazines such as Autocar, What Car?, Classic & Sports Car and Autosport. Nowadays he is a visiting...See more

Mel Nichols is one of the worldAEs most influential car magazine writers and editors. In his early career in his native Australia he was Deputy Editor of Wheels, the countryAEs top car magazine, and Editor of Sports Car World. He moved to London to become Editor of Car from 1974 to 1981, and from 1987 to 2009 he was Editorial Director of Haymarket Consumer Media, responsible for leading car magazines such as Autocar, What Car?, Classic & Sports Car and Autosport. Nowadays he is a visiting lecturer in magazine journalism at several universities." See less