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    S CLUB HEAVEN

    Mar 16, 2022 5 minutes
    by COLIN GOODWIN
    PHOTOGRAPHY
    by
    ASTON PARROTT

    MERCEDES-BENZ RECENTLY DELIVERED A NEW S-class to my door with their equivalent of an Apple Genius at the wheel. His job: to explain the myriad of systems and features in the car, including all those that you can access via an app on your field telephone. While not a complete Luddite, I can’t be doing with all this stuff, and not long after learning how to start it and put it in gear I zoned out and started to ponder whether I should buy a Corvette C3 with a big block or small block and whether a manual or automatic gearbox would be best.

    It turned out that Alex the delivery man had done a lot of racing, so I managed to segue us off in that direction. During our conversation it came out that Alex’s dad had recently retired from being a Snap-On tools salesman

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