
Adam Binnie
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One-time New Cars Editor for Parkers and Car Magazine, Adam now heads up the content commerce team, which tests and reviews products for brands across Bauer Media’s digital portfolio.
He joined Parkers in 2015, having started working life as a newspaper reporter (who wrote about cars for the features team while his editor wasn’t looking) and blogging about car news and journalism.
Since then he’s contributed road tests and reviews to both Parkers and CAR magazine, as well as other titles in the Bauer family, The Telegraph, and on-screen via our YouTube channel.
He’s particularly interested in cars that make family life easier, offer plenty of bike transportation space, and manage to be entertaining to drive too.
In fact Adam has been banned from mentioning mountain bikes in the Parkers office – luckily you can find out more about this by reading literally any of his long termer reports, where you’ll have no trouble finding at least two mounted to the towbar.
Some and Adam’s top tips for Parkers readers are:
- Take anything you use regularly with you on your test drive – child seats, pushchairs, etc – and make sure they fit
- Test the back seats from the perspective of your passengers – are there enough USB sockets and places to store books or gadgets?
- Get someone else to drive while you sit in the rear – the ride in some cars can vary hugely front to back
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Review: the 4x4 VW vans we don't get in the UKIf you want to go off-road in a Volkswagen commercial vehicle in the UK you’ll currently be ushered towards an Amarok pickup. European operators, however, benefit from a far greater choice,...21 Mar 2018
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Road test: Audi RS3 SportbackThe Audi RS 3 Sportback is a next-level hot hatchback propelled by the same scorchingly powerful 2.5-litre motor as the Audi TT RS. It now develops 400hp – 33 horses more...20 Mar 2017
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Road test: Vauxhall Insignia Grand Sport SRi Nav 2.0 (170hp) Turbo D BlueInjectionThe launch of the Vauxhall Insignia Grand Sport comes at a crossroads for its maker. On one hand, the market for large saloons and hatchbacks is under a two-pronged attack...16 Mar 2017
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