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HAROLD CARMICHAEL WRITES

Indulge me for a moment. I’m 62 this year and I suppose this is a refrain that many of us feel as we creak on a bit, but as I look at today’s motoring landscape with the benefit of a certain experience, I have to ask, how fast do road cars really need to be?

The thing that prompted this thought was the news that the next Mercedes-AMG C63e could have 480kW. That’s more power than a McLaren F1

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