Not so ‘big’ anymore
I am six feet tall and bought an old Austin A30 as my first ca in the 1960sr. It was a bit of a squeeze to get in and out of it so my second car was a used Triumph Herald. This was quite comfortable and later I exchanged it for a Riley Elf, which was okay after I’d fitted seat hinge extenders.
Then my partner and I had our first child and getting carry cots in and out was just too hard so as my new job required me to do extra mileage I bought my first ‘big’ car – aTriumph 2000.
I have owned a Triumph 2500TC for the last nine years and it’s still the most comfortable car I’ve been in although it’s now positively small compared to modern machinery. I parked next to a Kia Sportage SUV when I went to our local supermarket in my Triumph last week.
I looked out at a door handle and noticed that the Kia was 10-12 inches taller when I got out. I looked along the row of parked cars and the first eight or nine were all SUVs and my ‘big’ Triumph looked so small.
Is this really evolutionary improvement?
A ‘project fear’ campaign
I can't help but feel CCW is running a campaign to have MoTs re-introduced.
Your 22 March headline story states: 'Of 13,000 tested, 2000 were found to have dangerous faults' (It’s actually 13,487 failures out of 52,122 voluntary tests, with 2229 of those being categorised as ‘Dangerous’ – Ed). This sounds like a project fear-based campaign to me.
