Richard Aucock

Richard is director at Motoring Research. He has been with us since 2001, and has been a motoring journalist even longer. He won the IMCO Motoring Writer of the Future Award in 1996 and the acclaimed Sir William Lyons Award in 1998. Both awards are run by the Guild of Motoring Writers and Richard is currently vice chair of the world's largest organisation for automotive media professionals. Richard is also a juror and Steering Committee director for World Car Awards and the UK juror for the AUTOBEST awards.

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They want the keys for the vRS back. They'll have to fight us for them.

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Premium rivals have it wrong says JLR engineering boss – they should be thinking more like Apple...

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engagesportmode.com's John Redfern scoops top prize; polodriver.com's Richard Gooding highly commended

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