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Why on earth would I want to return to the parsimony and general awfulness of stuff I owned years ago like Escorts and BL1300s ? They weren't reliable , even if they were simple and they drank at least 50% more fuel than any modern equivalent , despite taking twice as long to get up to cruising speed .
My daily driver is a Skoda - nowt exotic, a Yeti 170 . But it has heated seats , cruise , rain sensing wipers , six speeds , climate control . hill descent and traction control and an 8 speaker stereo . In terms of go it's about the same as a 3 litre Capri but it does 50 mpg and not 25 .... And unlike my bloody awful Mk 2 Escort , it doesn't need servicing every 5 minutes .Unlike my late dad's succession of Triumph Herald and Vitesses the synchro isn't shot at 20 k miles ,it doesn't need decoking after acoupl of years and it doesn't go rusty if it looks like rain .
Hair shirt simplicity I can get in my Caterham - but as a daily driver it is not ideal . The only genuinely simple 'normal' car I have owned which I still rate highly was a 2CV - a car exactly fit for many purposes . If not for doing 80 mph in outside lane ......
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