About Queen of Cars

Queen of Cars isn't a brand that appeared last week. The name has been a registered trademark for ten years - first held in 2016, just renewed for another decade - long before the crown ever went on a website. This has been coming for a while.

It's run by Samantha - born in Solihull, the town where they build Land Rovers, now writing from Sydney, where the sun actually shines on a Sunday morning meet.

She grew up in the old heartland of British motoring, with Land Rover on the doorstep and the whole Midlands humming with the business of building cars. A childhood visit to the great engineering factory at Gaydon sealed it: the eerie foam-lined sound-insulation room where engineers test exactly how a car should sound, the test track where the machines are driven in anger, and the featherweight bodies moulded in fibreglass. Two cars marked her for life - Aston Martin, the impossible standard, and the Mini, proof that genius need not be expensive. Aspiration and cleverness, in equal measure - the whole philosophy of this place. Read the full story →

Queen of Cars is a movement, not a demographic. It's for anyone who loves cars - classics, sports cars, the lot - and drives with real attitude. For the ones who know exactly what they're looking at when the bonnet goes up, and for the ones who'd like to - because nobody is born knowing what a pink slip is, and nobody should be made to feel small for asking.

The name means what you think it means, in every sense - and “Queen” was never about gender. It's an energy: confident, sharp, unwilling to settle. Founded by a woman, built with LGBTQ+ warmth at its core, and open to every Queen who claims the crown - women, men, everyone in between and beyond. Excellence is the only entry requirement.

What we do

• The Blog- opinionated writing: Her Garage profiles, the Queen's Awards, and Letters from Solihull
• Learn - the unglamorous parts of ownership, explained properly and without condescension
• The Sydney Diary- the events calendar that's actually kept up to date
• The Royal Garage - our iOS app that remembers your rego, pink slip, green slip and service dates so you never have to

Privacy & our photo policy

• Number plates are blurred in every photo we publish, including at public events - no exceptions.
• People are never identified without consent. Faces of bystanders are blurred; Her Garage subjects appear only with their written agreement, and can withdraw it at any time.
• Sourced photos are credited to their photographers as their licence requires.
• Spot something we missed? Email us and it comes down or gets blurred the same day.

Get in touch

Her Garage nominations, event listings, corrections delivered with appropriate ceremony: email info@queenofcars.com.

A movement for my Queens.