Having a trailer also means needing a place to store it. It’s common for HOAs to not allow storing a trailer. From this perspective, trucks are “easier” to deal with.

Go back in time and be a designer in the late 50s/early 60s, when style was king and wild cars could make it to production without being completely watered down by committees and bean counters.

Durability Tester if such a thing exists. 

I will take Hamilton’s seat at Mercedes. 

Does the Petersen have dedicated people just for driving each car every now and then to keep them running and detecting issues? Or is it the mechanics who take care of that too? Because if there’s a job that consists solely of working for a museum firing up engines an driving old cars for a few miles, several…

I would love to be one of the people that designs, builds and drives the concepts that Jeep brings to Moab every Easter and drive show off and talk with journalists about them.

Either racing driver or the guy who only sprays one side of your car down at the automatic car wash. Either would be fine, really.

As a teenager, I wanted to be a designer. Like most kids into cars for the styling, I drew cars on every other sheet of paper in my notebooks.

Don’t know if it counts as auto industry, but classic sports car journalist for a magazine like Hagerty’s.  If that doesn't count curator/caretaker for a company's classic collection, Mercedes/BMW/Jaguar

Honestly I’d take any job: QA, test driving, VOC... but my dream job was always exterior design.

Designer, something I’ve wanted to do since being at school. After saving for a decade I finally managed to attend university to study for a degree in Automotive Design but unfortunately a degree alone is nowhere near enough to land a job. Several years later I’m having another go and have successfully gained a place…

Honestly for me, it would be writing about them. Sadly, I don’t think I could make what I’m making now if I made that switch.

Test Driver. Not for times or whatever, but for feel and fuckery. 

If I could make an actual living making various Calvin peeing on things stickers, that’d be perfect.

i actually looked a few years ago when koenigsegg was hiring and really considered it. it was for wiring and whatnot which is in my wheelhouse. but in the end it was very hard to leave my family and live thousands of miles away. it was right after i had a new nephew too.

Easy. Top Gear presenter. Travel the world and do dumb shit in every type of car imaginable.

It’ll be weird... I recall talking to a Honda product planner years ago about the Accord coupe. A friend that was with me was considering buying, but there were rumours that a new Accord was on the way (the current one) and he wasn’t sure whether he should wait or not. Planner dude was super cool, but wouldn’t answer…

Design the parts, engineer the parts, test the parts, drive/race the parts, and profit directly from the sales. I think there’s only one job out there like that and Elon Musk has it.  I think I better stick to the industry I'm already in.

Final signoff test driver for Lamborghini

Highly-paid race and automotive photographer. Emphasis on the ‘highly-paid’ part.