James Taylor has been writing professionally about cars since the late 1970s, and his interests embrace a wide range of older cars of all makes and nationalities, as well as classic buses, lorries and military vehicles. He counts the BMW E36 range among the most interesting of the 1990s and, as a commentator on the BMW scene through magazines at the time, he well remembers the buzz around the regular new-model introductions in a range that was designed to offer something for everyone.