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The magazine subscription for this month is going to be awarded to the reader who can tell us about their worst car experience – and no, that doesn’t mean it has to be your worst overall car. What happened and what went catastrophically wrong? Best letter wins a MOTOR subscription for 12 months and our undying admiration/pity.

NEWMAN’S CONDITION DIAGNOSED

I HAVE AN answer to Scott Newman’s comments/questions about the apparent increase in Kia Stingers on the road since he took charge of the review vehicle. He questions whether there is a name for that apparent increase. There is.

It’s called the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon; a cognitive bias where a person tends to notice a higher frequency of things (Kia Stingers) after they have become

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