James Delingpole James Delingpole

I went looking for a used car – and found my inner boy racer

Meeting the Golf V6 Four Motion was like being propositioned by a supermodel

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issue 11 April 2015

A bit late, I know, to put in a bid for Jeremy Clarkson’s old job. But I think I might just accidentally have rediscovered my inner petrolhead.

What happened was this. We’d just replaced our old sensible family car (a Ford Mondeo) with another sensible family car (a Skoda Yeti), only to realise that it just wasn’t enough.

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