Jil McIntosh focuses on new-car critiques, auto expertise and vintage vehicles, together with the 2 Nineteen Forties automobiles in her storage. She is at the moment a contract Author at Driving.ca since 2016 Abstract
· Skilled author for greater than 35 years, showing in a number of the high publications in Canada and the U.S.
· Specialties embody new-vehicle critiques, previous vehicles and automotive historical past, automotive information, and “How It Works” columns that designate car options and expertise
· Member of the Vehicle Journalists Affiliation of Canada (AJAC) since 2003; voting member for AJAC Canadian Automobile of the Yr Awards; juror on the Ladies’s World Automobile of the Yr Awards
Training
Jil McIntosh graduated from East York Collegiate in Toronto, after which continued her schooling on the College of Laborious Knocks. Her early jobs together with driving a taxi in Toronto; and guarantee administration in a new-vehicle dealership, the place she additionally held data lessons for purchasers, explaining the internal mechanical workings of automobiles and their options.
Expertise
Jil McIntosh is a contract author who has been writing for Driving.ca since 2016, however she’s been an expert author beginning when most vehicles nonetheless had carburetors. On the age of 11, she had a narrative printed within the defunct Toronto Telegram newspaper, for which she was paid $25; given the quick size of the story and the greenback’s shopping for energy on the time, which may have been the comparatively best-paid piece she’s ever written.
An old-car fanatic who owns a 1947 Cadillac and 1949 Studebaker truck, she started her writing profession crafting tales for antique-car and hot-rod automotive membership magazines. When the Ontario-based newspaper Outdated Autos began up in 1987, devoted to the antique-car interest, she grew to become a columnist beginning with its second difficulty; the newspaper continues to be round and she or he nonetheless writes for it. Not lengthy after the Toronto Star launched its Wheels part in 1986 – the primary Canadian newspaper to incorporate an auto part – she grew to become one in all its common writers. She began out writing function tales, after which added “new-vehicle reviewer” to her resume in 1999. She stayed with Wheels, in print and later digital as effectively, till the publication made a cost-cutting determination to shed its freelance writers. She joined Driving.ca the very subsequent day.
Along with Driving.ca, she writes for industry-focused publications, together with Automotive Information Canada and Autosphere. Over time, her automotive work additionally appeared in such publications as Vehicles & Elements, Avenue Rodder, Canadian Sizzling Rods, AutoTrader, Sharp, Taxi Information, Maclean’s, The Chicago Tribune, Forbes Wheels, Canadian Driver, Sympatico Autos, and Reader’s Digest. Her non-automotive work, masking such matters as journey, foods and drinks, rural dwelling, fountain pen gathering, and movie star interviews, has appeared in publications together with Harrowsmith, The place New Orleans, Pen World, The E book for Males, Rural Supply, and Gambit.
Main awards received by the writer
2016 AJAC Journalist of the Yr; Automobile Care Canada / CAA Security Journalism award winner in 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2013, runner-up in 2021; Pirelli Pictures Award 2015; Environmental Journalism Award 2019; Technical Writing Award 2020; Automobile Testing Evaluation award 2020, runner-up in 2022; Function Story award winner 2020; inducted into the Avenue Rodding Corridor of Fame in 1994.
Contact data
E-mail: jil@ca.inter.web
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jilmcintosh/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JilMcIntosh
