Tim Rose is an award-winning automotive business journalist and editor, with more than two decades of experience in reporting about the motor retail industry. He has qualifications accredited by the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) and the National Council for the Training of Journalist (NCTJ).
Tim has been with Automotive Management and AM-online since 2004. He has been its editor since 2016, since when it won the Automotive Business Publication of the Year Award in 2020 from Newspress and the Bauer Media Scoop of the Year Award in 2019.
A specialist on the UK’s automotive industry, he has appeared on BBC News and BBC radio commenting on new car sales, marketing initiatives such as scrappage and electric car grants, and on the UK’s transition to electric vehicles. He has also shared his expertise on stage at conferences for dealer groups, for Autotrader and for Google, and spent two years as guest motoring expert with BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
He heads Automotive Management’s editorial team and its journalism output, and hosts the annual AM Awards for the UK automotive retail industry and the AM100 Dinner at which the UK’s 100 largest franchised car dealer groups are revealed.
Tim has been a judge of the UK Car of the Year Awards, the Inspiring Automotive Women Awards and the Institute of the Motor Industry Awards, as well as the AM Awards.
A graduate of Goldsmiths College, University of London, he began his journalism career in local newspapers in the late 1990s but was passionate about cars and motoring so joined Max Power magazine in 2001 as a gateway to specialising in automotive journalism, moving to Automotive Management three years later.
Despite having fond memories from driving petrolheads’ dream cars from the Audi R8 V10, Porsche 911 and Maserati MC20 to the Ford Focus RS, Mitsubish Evo VIII and Vauxhall VXR220, Tim is a strong advocate of electric cars (and has not had even oe public charging nightmare experience yet), but he also accepts that currently EVs will not suit everyone.
