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IT’S QUITE a turnaround these days to hear complaints about risks to pedestrians from the virtually silent electric vehicles prowling our streets in increasing numbers, considering that for most of my life people were getting their knickers in a twist about loud exhausts.

This hostility to beaut exhaust notes made no sense at all to us young petrol-heads back in the day –

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