Mark Toljagic

Before there were Hot Wheels there were Matchbox miniature cars, and Mark would get a shiny new one every week simply for attending school. He grew up in east-end Toronto learning the names of every car and truck on the road. Mark studied urban planning (Ryerson) and then journalism (Carleton University), and parlayed his interest in used cars – he’s bought more than 35 of them – into his specialty as an auto writer. He earned AJAC's Automotive Journalist of the Year Award in 2007 and some other stuff. What keeps Mark up at night is the rapid demise of the manual transmission.