After his usual summer break, HJ did not reappear in his Saturday Telegraph column, and the Telegraph motoring section now seems to have been taken over by someone else.

I've notice on the HJ website that all the questions now seem to be being answered by other people and never HJ himself.

His picture with his famous little hat seems to have disappeared from the website, and previous archived answers that he actually answered just have a logo in place of his picture.

Where is he?

Honest John was a piece of journalistic role play by Peter Lorimer (not the ex Leeds footballer!) including a company set up in that name.

The original HJ wrapped up the business and sold its name and goodwill on a while back.

It seems the DT have now dispensed with the successor's services and taken the totality of their Motoring coverage in house.