James Taylor is a renowned author on a variety of classic car subjects, and has penned over 150 books, but has always counted the Rover marque as his favourite. He has been researching and writing about it since the 1970s, and has become a leading authority on the subject, covering its whole history from 1904 to 2005, as well as that of the associated Land Rover marque from its inception to the present day. He lives in rural Oxfordshire with his wife and the younger two of his four children, surrounded by books about cars. Unsurprisingly, the collection of cars in his garage has always been heavily biased in favour of the Rover Company and its successors.