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    ‘AND I WOULD DRIVE FIFTEEN HUNDRED MILES…’

    Jan 26, 2022 7 minutes
    Photography Mark Dixon

    The much-missed motoring writer Russell Bulgin supposedly once stated that ‘cars are boring; it’s what you do with them that makes them interesting’. Now, while you’d have to have a heart of granite to find the current Ford GT boring, it’s certainly true that doing a proper road trip in one is a lot more fun than walking around it, chin cupped in hand, and pondering the aesthetics.

    So, when car tour organiser Bill Telford got in touch to offer Octane a place on his 2021 Ford GT Tour, taking in some of the best driving roads in Scotland, it wasn’t a hard decision to make. Hell, he’d even throw in a car, courtesy of Ford of Britain, which had kindly offered to make its 2017-registered GT available for the duration. Finished in eye-searing Triple Yellow. This is not a boring car.

    I found out later that editor James supposed I might want to join the tour only for a day or two. But with Ford apparently quite relaxed about how many miles I put on the GT, I volunteered to drive it up to Scotland from my home in Gloucestershire, do the

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