Perhaps best known as a presenter of BBC Top Gear and a regular contributor to The Daily Telegraph's Saturday Motoring section since October 2003, James May has been broadcasting and writing about cars, bikes, pies, American hard gums, poetry, hats, aeroplanes and quite a few other things for most of his adult life. He has numerous magazine and newspaper columns to his name, not to mention several books. His first car was a yellow Mk1 Vauxhall Cavalier, he has a music degree and he lives with a cat called Fusker in a house without any stair carpet.