In addition to Driving.ca, she writes for industry-focused publications, including Automotive News Canada and Autosphere. She stayed with Wheels, in print and later digital as well, until the publication made a cost-cutting decision to shed its freelance writers. She started out writing feature stories, and then added “new-vehicle reviewer” to her resume in 1999.
Not long after the Toronto Star launched its Wheels section in 1986 – the first Canadian newspaper to include an auto section – she became one of its regular writers. When the Ontario-based newspaper Old Autos started up in 1987, dedicated to the antique-car hobby, she became a columnist starting with its second issue the newspaper is still around and she still writes for it. At the age of eleven, she had a story published in the defunct Toronto Telegram newspaper, for which she was paid $25 given the short length of the story and the dollar’s buying power at the time, that might have been the relatively best-paid piece she’s ever written.Īn old-car enthusiast who owns a 1947 Cadillac and 1949 Studebaker truck, she began her writing career crafting stories for antique-car and hot-rod car club magazines.
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Jil McIntosh is a freelance writer who has been writing for Driving.ca since 2016, but she’s been a professional writer starting when most cars still had carburetors. Her early jobs including driving a taxi in Toronto and warranty administration in a new-vehicle dealership, where she also held information classes for customers, explaining the inner mechanical workings of vehicles and their features. Jil McIntosh graduated from East York Collegiate in Toronto, and then continued her education at the School of Hard Knocks. Member of the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada (AJAC) since 2003 voting member for AJAC Canadian Car of the Year Awards juror on the Women’s World Car of the Year Awards Education.Specialties include new-vehicle reviews, old cars and automotive history, automotive news, and “How It Works” columns that explain vehicle features and technology.Professional writer for more than 35 years, appearing in some of the top publications in Canada and the U.S.She is currently a freelance Writer at Driving.ca since 2016 Summary Jil McIntosh specializes in new-car reviews, auto technology and antique cars, including the two 1940s vehicles in her garage.
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