Those who have read any of my car reviews, here or anywhere else, will find this one somewhat different, primarily because it does not follow my comparative scoring system. Please allow me to explain that from the outset, I did not consider it fair to compare a nine year old, £1000, car directly with the modern machinery that I usually drive, more often than not, worth at least twenty times as much. In motoring terms, for many of us, 2001 was simply a different era, yet, at the same time, many, myself included, would not regard any car manufactured since 2000 as actually being “old”. In 1980 ...
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