Like the man surprised to learn he had been speaking prose all his life, Denise McCluggage is surprised to find she has been a pioneer. She just thought she was doing things she liked to do- among them drive fast cars and write about those who drove even faster cars. Denise reviews European cars for RTM and was recently named RTM's International Editor.  She also contribute's to RTMs travel advice section. She was involved at the inception of Competition Press (now AutoWeek) for which she is a columnist and is senior-contributing editor.  Denise was named and honored as RTMs first Lifetime Achievement Award recipient in 2004. [READ]

Bob Plunkett is a veteran automotive reporter whose articles have appeared in industry and consumer magazines for 25 years. He currently produces syndicated automotive reports published weekly in more than 100 newspapers across America, putting the reader in the driver's seat for a hands-on feel of a vehicle. An adventurer, Plunkett has raced cars, scaled mountains, dived with sharks and ran across entire countries to research his articles. For the decade of the 1980s he reported on automotive subjects for an Arkansas newspaper, and during this time wrote speeches for a young Arkansas governor, Bill Clinton. Today, Plunkett still writes from his Arkansas home, but he travels extensively, crisscrossing the globe to drive new cars.