Sue Baker, the journalist who ignored all the signs that said women did not understand cars, and who was the Observer’s motoring correspondent for 13 years, died last week.
Long before Jeremy Clarkson and his band took the wheel of the BBC’s car show, Baker was a presenter on Top Gear, appearing on more than 100 episodes from 1980. It was originally intended, she recalled, as an informative consumer magazine, simply letting viewers know “which new cars are coming on the market and what we think of them”.
