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GROWING UP

The petrolhead world collectively gasped. “You can’t do that!” Ford brought the right name back, just on the wrong car. We all associated ‘Puma’ with a revvy Yamaha tuned engine, one of the sweetest manual gearchanges ever, and a telly ad starring Steve McQueen. Not an SUV-wannabe that’d arrived 10 years after Nissan had carved out the niche it was designed to fill.

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