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If it hadn’t been for a keen online rival bidder, you would now be reading about how I’d just bought a Renault Avantime and how I was embarking on an ill-judged foray into weird French car ownership.

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In 1961 the Beetle had 1192cc and had only just received an all-synchro ’box. It had been immensely successful, but nobody imagined it had decades more life in it. And Volkswagen wanted to expand beyo