ROUND THE BEND

SO, I’M about to do a track day in a parent-spec daily driver. It’s the first late-model, family-oriented machine I’ve had the opportunity to punt around a track – a VF Calais V Sportwagon with leather and chrome and automated things that go ding.

WHILE MY MATE HAS BEEN ‘EXPLORING THE LIMITS CAREFULLY’, I’VE BEEN FLOGGING PAST LIKE HUNTER S THOMPSON, HOLLERING, HOOTING AND SKIDDING BROADSIDE IN A CLOUD OF SMOKE

It’s got the Bluetooth and remote start. It can play songs off my phone and reverse parallel park for me. It not only tells me when I’ve backed too close to