WRITE TO autocar@haymarket.com
LETTER OF THE WEEK Love and loss
Rachel Burgess’s final Volvo V90 report in the 5 June issue really hit home with me. I almost felt like crying when I got to the end – but then had to chuckle as I excitedly read Will Rimell’s comment out to my wife after saying: “Look, someone else had pictures of V70s on their wall as a teenager too!” Now she thinks we’re both odd – sorry, Will.
Over the past 25 years or so, I’ve owned many Volvo estates, buying nothing else since I could afford them. I even managed to snag one of the final new V60s from stock after a frantic runaround on discovering my order for a newly built one didn’t go through on the Volvo website (it was that fateful weekend).
But what do I do next? I’m a Volvo driver. More than that, I’m a Volvo estate driver. I can’t bring myself to buy any of the company’s SUVs. Dare I become a BMW Touring driver? I can’t see any other way.
Christopher Cassidy
Harpenden, Hertfordshire
Oh, but suddenly there is another way… Turn to p11 – KC
Act of desperation
After the EU placed heavy import tariffs on Chinese EVs (News, 19 June), I wonder what China will do to European cars. They’re already losing market share, but they still form a sizeable proportion of sales.
Is this because the EU sees their demise in China as inevitable and wants to protect them in the European market?
It’s the consumers who are paying the price. We just love being ripped off in Europe!
Can’t compete. Can’t lower costs. Blame China. Tariff their goods.
I can see legacy cars losing their sales not only in China but the rest of the world outside the West too.
While the world is enjoying affordable EVs, we in the West are paying high prices to buy cars from legacy manufacturers that can only survive in the West because any competition is being tariffed.
Zhang Xuewen
Via Facebook
Don’t pass this by
Thank you to Will Rimell for an informative online article covering the various parties’ motoring-related manifesto promises (see p16).
However, as much as I like the sound of “major upgrades of Britain’s roads”, I can’t see why the Labour Party needs to “defer” (cancel?) the construction of the A27 Arundel bypass in order to afford for potholes to be fixed.
We on the south coast have needed this missing link for more than two decades, because at present all t
