Taylor is a writer, historian, radio and TV commentator and a keen loyal supporter of historic racing.
In 1984, Haymarket purchased Autocar (the world's oldest motoring magazine) from IPC and successfully relaunched it.
He retired as chairman of Haymarket Magazines in 2000 and became a freelance writer, mainly about motor sports history.
He completed and prepared for publication My View from the Pit Wall, the posthumous autobiography of Lotus F1 team manager Peter Warr.
He had a small part, playing himself as the English-language BBC commentator, in the 2013 Ron Howard-directed film Rush about the battle between Niki Lauda and James Hunt in the 1976 F1 season, and also helped with editing the film and scripting some of the dialogue spoken by the broadcast commentators in other languages.