BIO: Iain Ayre's automotive enthusiasms span everything from Minis to Bentleys. He has prototyped several car designs without commercial success, and has written 18 books on random motoring subjects. He continues to avoid getting a proper job.
Buying a brand new or newish car is becoming a worse and worse idea. Apart from the environmental damage caused by wrenching thousands of pounds of raw materials out of the earth and hauling them across the world half a dozen times in dirty diesel ships as they become the parts of a new car, there is the massive and ever rising cost to us of the manufacturers' failure to make enough spare parts for sale for new cars. That's actually illegal, but in the modern corporate world, the law is: 'Who's going…
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Classics World (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2024