School
Illinois State University
Expertise
Automotive reviews, Buyer Guides, Luxury sports cars
- Peter has a passion for performance driving.
- He loves digging into motorsports history and highlighting stories that often go untold.
- Of the many cars he test drove in 2025, his hands-down favorite was the 982-generation Porsche 718 Cayman GTS 4.0.
Experience
Peter Nelson kicked off his career in automotive media working for Winding Road Magazine in 2018. Since then, he's written in a freelance and staff writer capacity for The Drive, CarGurus, Robb Report, Forbes, The Verge, Motor1, HotCars, Inside EVs, Ars Technica, Grassroots Motorsports, Hagerty, and more. He's currently a freelance automotive journalist who's always in search of the next fascinating story, yet also loves presenting need-to-know information to readers in an educational and entertaining fashion.
Education
Peter earned his bachelor's degree in German from Illinois State University.
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Metric fasteners are standard on modern vehicles. However, that wasn't always the case. Here's when manufacturers first began to make the switch from SAE.
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