Adrienne Girard

Adrienne is the copy chief of Hearst Autos, where she oversees copy-editing and fact-checking for Car and Driver and its sister publications. With nearly two decades of experience copy-editing magazines, websites, and newspapers, she is passionate about ensuring our content is clear and accurate for our readers as well as nerding out on questions like "Is it 'passenger seat' or 'passenger's seat'?" (Here, it's the latter.) Like the Car and Driver test vehicles, her first car had a notepad in the glovebox for calculating gas mileage. Adrienne has been driving hybrids for 15 years, and her dream car is a pink EV. She holds degrees in journalism and American studies from Rutgers University and lives in New Jersey with her husband.