How did author Steve Saxty come to write these books?
Although Saxty’s father never learned to drive, his mother was an enthusiastic driver, continuing to do so regularly until her late 90s. Steve grew up just a few miles from Ford’s R&D center in the UK, where he became captivated by the prototypes driving past each day. This fascination inspired him to pursue a career as a car designer. Ford hired him in the 1980s as a design engineer, but it didn’t take long for both him and his supervisors to realize his creative talent might be better suited for marketing than designing car components.