"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 but having previously bought a 675LT, P1 and V12 Vantage S from business partner Craig, conversations then followed exploring the idea of building an independent car dealership in the North East of Scotland. The idea being that the north east and “Europe’s oil capital” has always suffered with limited representation from brands such as Aston Martin, Bentley, McLaren, Ferrari, Lamborghini and others but has a high concentration of keen enthusiasts and collectors who could now enjoy the the services we provide locally to fill that gap.
Graham is also 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 at Knockhill driving a TVR and Noble road cars, then moved on to racing in 2013 with grass roots saloon racing onto a string of race wins in various machines, taking overall Champion honours in the 2017 GT Cup in his McLaren MP4-12C GT3. In 2018 moved into British GT’s with great success including an overall race win at Spa-Francorchamps alongside Maxime Martin in the Aston Vantage GT3, bagging the ERA trophy from the BRDC! A GT3 class win at the LeMans AMR festival and the crowning highlight thus far was winning overall in the British GT Championship driving with TF Sport/Aston Martin Racing and fellow Scot, 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 is rarely found and will be delighted to help you find the right car for you!
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.
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.