Jeff Daniels is a highly respected freelance motoring journalist, well-known and well-connected throughout the motoring industry. He won the Renault UK Journalist of the Year Award in 2002 for the first edition of this book, and The Montagu of Beaulieu Trophy in 2003 for another of his Haynes titles, Driving Force.

William A. Ringler, Jr. (1912-1987), best known for his definitive edition of the "Poems of Sir Philip Sidney" (1962), was also highly regarded for a wide range of studies in English Renaissance literature, including bibliographies of half of the major and all of the minor Tudor poets for the "New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature" (1974). "The Bibliography and Index of English Verse, 1476-1558" (1988), based on his research in poetic manuscripts, was published shortly after his death.
Michael Flachmann, a former student of William Ringler's at the University of Chicago, is now a professor of English at California State University, Bakersfield, where he specializes in literature of the English Renaissance. He has published six books and numerous articles on Shakespeare and related topics.