18 May 2015 – Driven To Write

Theme: Secondhand – Opinions

I had quite a lot of those bits of received wisdom until recent years.

Some of those shopworn gems include the idea that steering should be heavy, Opel make bad/dull/boring cars, Ferrari is interesting but Japanese cars are not; small saloon cars are drab, six speed gearboxes are a good thing, low profile tyres and big wheels are visually worth it, bright colour is wrong inside and out. Those are some of the bits of second hand wisdom I have accumulated and sloughed off.

Car journalism is full of ideas like these that hang waiting on pegs ready to Continue reading “Theme: Secondhand – Opinions”

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