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    RUN FOR THE HILLS

    Jan 08, 2021 4 minutes
    by Performance vw
    Words & photos: Tony Taylor
    Additional photos: Duncan Hobin

    A couple of months ago, in Our Cars, I made some comments about the negative side of online forums and Facebook car groups. This piece is the exact opposite.

    Last August, in a rare moment of freedom from the Wuhan Flu, I did the NC500. A road trip around the North Coast of Scotland, that covers in the region of 500 miles (North Coast 500 – geddit?) of amazing coastal roads, lochs and idyllic countryside.

    How do forums fit in to this? Simple, everyone that was on the trip is someone that I know because of car forums. We became car fwends, then mates, then

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