About AutoSnout

About Us

AutoSnout is a reflection of our passion for cars and motorbikes and the numbers that represent their performance and aesthetics. Ever since we were young we loved to play with our Matchbox and Corgi cars. Once we could read we enjoyed looking under the models to see what year, make and model it was.

As we got older and geekier we also liked to read books with lists of the fastest, heaviest, slowest etc. AutoSnout represents this same ethos, putting the statistics that really matter to us, matching and comparing them whilst enjoying what they look, drive and ride like too.

As a youngster, the first toe dipped into automotive ownership was of course a small engined motorbike in the form of a Honda CG 125. Once I had advanced to my full motorbike licence a few years later the engine capacity increased to own the iconic Suzuki Bandit with a 600cc unit.

Once my pocket money had stretched from buying model cars and relatively small engined motorbikes I could eventually afford to take car driving lessons.

My first car I drove was a Vauxhall Astra Mk 2 in a lovely shade of browny red, the next a bright red Ford Escort Estate 1.8D with no turbo fitted and a dodgy head gasket.

The cars got a little faster with a bright red M reg Ford Mondeo 1.8lx which had a small spoiler on the back. The Mondeo didn't last long as my new found freedom meant I was free to choose my own car. One of my favourite hatchbacks of the time was a Citroen Saxo. So due to insurance costs I plumped for a low mileage 2001 metallic blue VTR rather than the one I really wanted, the 16 valve version aka the VTS. Handled great and the 6x9 speakers I fitted was the icing on the cake.

Since then we've owned Vtecs, Turbo'd Boxers(Impreza's), Bi-Turbos, and 4,5 and 6 cylinder powered cars of various guises