"The Auto Lounge was established by petrolhead's Graham Davidson & Craig Handley from a passion for cars!"
Founded in April 2019 from a passion for cars, The Auto Lounge has grown into becoming the “Home of luxury and performance cars in Scotland!” Over the past five years we have supplied hundreds of the finest classic, sports and super cars to new and existing customer’s up and down the country and across the globe, to countries such as Cyprus, Malta, Singapore & New Zealand!
Our primary objective remains: to provide customers with a bespoke, relaxed and overall better experience when buying, selling or sourcing their luxury and performance vehicles.
2023 saw the business expand into our own new boutique showroom designed specifically to create the perfect space to view and explore your next purchase, set upon 80 acres of idyllic Aberdeenshire countryside and surrounded by some of the UK’s most breathtaking roads to enjoy your new vehicle. We have also opened our new state-of-the-art service centre with experienced technician Reece Gillan at the helm, bringing years worth of OEM knowledge from Porsche/VAG and varying marques.
2025 is set to be a record year with our inventory being larger and more varied than ever and our workshop facilities now in full operation.
– The Auto Lounge Team
A Petrolhead first and foremost Graham has ongoing interests in the oil industry and commercial property market but having previously bought a 675LT, P1 and V12 Vantage S from business partner Craig, conversations then progressed to exploring the idea of setting up an independent car dealership in the North East. “Europe’s oil capital” has always suffered with limited representation from prestigious brands such as Aston Martin, Bentley, Ferrari, Lamborghini, McLaren and others but has a high concentration of keen enthusiasts and collectors who could benefit from more services provided locally, so here we are!
Graham is fuelled by a passion for GT racing. 20 years a track-day regular, Graham quickly developed into a successful racing driver, a journey that started with driving road cars at Knockhill , then moved on from club racing in 2013 onto a string of race wins in various machines, taking overall Champion honours in the 2017 GT Cup in his McLaren MP4-12C GT3, British GT’s in 2018 taking an overall race win at Spa-Francorchamps alongside Maxime Martin in the Aston Vantage GT3, bagging the ERA trophy from the BRDC, the GT3 class win at the LeMans AMR festival and finally the crowning highlight thus far winning overall in the British GT Championship with TF Sport/Aston Martin Racing and team mate, Jonny Adam. Graham is now a proud member of the BRDC and continues to feature on the British GT grid between work and family commitments.
A true petrolhead and racer, understanding the expectations of car owners, enthusiasts and collectors alike. Not your typical car sales person but with the depth of driving and ownership knowledge that you won’t find in many showrooms!
Craig has been immersed in all things sports and super cars for over a decade. Initially building his client base through offering photography, videography and social media marketing to a mix of high end private and commercial automotive customers, including Lamborghini. During this period Craig also ran a successful Motoring Channel on YouTube, amassing several million video views, as well as being a Co-Founder of GT Scotland – a social media based provider of prestige automotive news and events in Scotland.
In 2014 Craig was approached by Bentley Glasgow and began work with them, before moving to the parent companies new Maserati franchise. The opening of the Scotland’s first McLaren dealership in Glasgow brought further opportunities and Craig became an integral part of the award winning team from initial dealer launch until late 2016 – winning Global Retailer of the Year in both 2015 & 2016, and selling numerous McLarens, including bespoke 675LT and the £1m+ P1 hypercar!
Following his success at McLaren, Craig progressed to Aston Martin Edinburgh for a fresh challenge. He worked alongside numerous clients helping create their own bespoke specifications from Aston Martin’s new model range, which included DB11, Vantage & DBS Superleggera. He also built an array of knowledge surrounding Astons of the past. The pinnacle of Craig’s career here was securing an order for Aston Martin’s new hypercar – codenamed AM-RB 003.
Craig left Aston Martin in March 2019 to found ‘The Auto Lounge’ alongside Graham, creating a business in which they can share their knowledge of all things automotive, whilst providing a first class customer experience.
Paul has nearly 23 years experience in the Motor Industry with the last 14 years of it being with Porsche Centre Aberdeen. Joining Porsche was a dream for Paul who has loved the brand since he had the posters on his bedroom walls.
Started in Sales and becoming accredited with distinction for Porsche Sales Program. He then progressed to General Sales Manager where he completed his Porsche Leadership & Management Program with distinction in December 2024.
“14 years with Porsche has been fantastic as I have been able to to travel all over Europe on amazing training and driving courses driving some of the best cars in the world”.
“I was also very fortunate in 2015 to be the only person from Aberdeen to sell the Porsche 918 Spyder. This sale took to me Stuttgart for the factory tour and seeing the car in production”.
Paul is a keen golfer in his spare time which also went well with the Porsche Golf Cup where he has been privileged to host and play around the UK in some of the best courses.
Paul has been good friends with Graham Davidson since his school days. When he heard about Graham’s new adventure he knew he wanted to be apart of this journey and use his years of experience to help grow the business.
Reece was born a petrolhead destined to be working with anything that has an engine. His parents knew they had a petrolhead on their hands when one of his first words were “Porsche”.
From then Reece grew into racing Karts from 10 years old until 16 when he started his automotive career at Station Garage Kintore where he completed his apprenticeship working on all types of cars and vans, from servicing to diagnostic and repairs of electrical and mechanical systems. At 21 Reece wanted to increase his knowledge so he moved to North East Motors ( VW AUDI group specialist) where he spent 18 months mainly focused on diagnostics and large repairs such as timing chains on Audi RS, Golf R and R32 models.
However, Reece’s heart has always had Porsche running through it, as he had grown up with Porsches in the family, so when the opportunity opened at Porsche Centre Aberdeen, he couldn’t turn the offer down. With his time at Porsche, he quickly became well known within the Porsche community in Aberdeen as he was always joining in at Porsche Club clinic days, carrying out tech talks and joining the centre at local shows and events. While at Porsche Reece’s previous experiences excelled him within the workshop giving him a great reputation within the Peter Vardy Group where he was destined to go far within Porsche and was lined up to go for Manthey Training.
When the opportunity arose for Reece to join the team at The Auto Lounge, and with Porsche’s future focusing more on hybrids and EVs, the petrolhead within Reece pointed him in only one direction – to The Auto Lounge. Reece is excited to bring his ideas and experience to The Auto Lounge technical side of the business and help further establish it as one of Scotland’s leading specialists.