Chris Goffey

Acting · Born October 17, 1945 · Bury, Lancashire, England

Christopher Robert Goffey is an English journalist and television personality, best known as a presenter of the British Broadcasting Corporation motoring television series. He crossed over to Channel 4 in the mid-1980s and worked with two motoring programmes. (The Motor Show and Wheeltracks) He has worked on many different corporate, instructional, and motivational films for a variety of clients. From 1965 he honed his skills with the Ruislip Northwood Post, the Buckinghamshire Advertiser (now the Buckinghamshire Herald), and the Slough Evening Mail. Recognition came in 1975 when he was designated News Editor. Leaving Autocar in 1977, he obtained his own editorship with the journal Motor Trader. Goffey"s demeanour was deliberately understated, calm, and practical when dealing with all road tests on During a race among all the presenters in SEAT Ibizas in 1996, Clarkson noted that the last time Goffey had been on a track, he had been "tearing the tires off an Audi 80". Later Goffey was one of the presenters, alongside Richard Hammond and Brendan Coogan, on the first series of Dream Deals, a motoring show which aired on the Men & Motors channel, in 2001. In his May 2007 Magazine column, Jeremy Clarkson suggested that he would like Goffey back on the programme and would prefer a more serious approach but that the audience wanted them to "cock about". A one off documentary lasting 45 minute part of many car documentaries shown on Men and Motors channel part of the Granada media group. Goffey narrated and presented the show which covers the period from 1900, when the Citroën company was started, to the release of the Citroën C3 Pluriel in 2003.