D Figg

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Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
School
Middlesex School of Finance
Expertise
European cars and motorcycles, Vehicle maintenance and insurance, Volkswagen brands
  • Don's been working with supercars since he was a teenager and has owned three exotic cars so far. He is also a former apprentice mechanic, and has experience working on models such as VW, Skoda, Audi, Porsche, Bentley, and Bugatti, among other brands.
  • He is currently a valuation expert for several middle eastern supercar showrooms, specifically for brands under the Volkswagen Auto Group.
  • Don has interviewed several automotive celebrities, including the designer of the McLaren W1, Range Rover Velar, and McLaren Elva, as well as people like Horacio Pagani and The Satin Crew.

Experience

Don is a professional journalist with over five years of experience, having started as an automotive beat intern at a local newspaper. He has since progressed to blog writing, which he's kept up during his tenure at university. Over the years, Don has cultivated relationships across the automotive world with people from varying backgrounds. From an F1 team manager to hypercar designers to climate change activists, Don knows them all and usually has inside information way before reporters do. He is also a permanent consultant to several Riyadh and Dubai-based supercar showrooms and advises them on their print and web media strategies. In his free time, he likes to rent the latest cars for a weekend and bash them about and review them, to return to his Range Rover on Monday.

Education

Donovan holds a Bachelor of Finance awarded from Middlesex University.

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