<p>John Phillips first began writing about cars in 1974, at <em>Car Weekly</em> in Toronto. He later worked for Ford Racing, then served for seven years as the Executive Editor of <em>Car and Driver.</em> In the interim, he has written for <em>Harper's, Sports Illustrated, The Toronto Globe and Mail, The Cleveland Plain Dealer,</em> and <em>Conde Nast Traveler.</em> He enjoyed a one-on-one interview with Joe Biden and is the author of the true-crime saga <em>God Wants You to Roll</em> and the memoir <em>Four Miles West of Nowhere</em>. In 2007 he won the Ken Purdy Award for journalism. He live
