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SHOULD CONVENTIONAL WISDOM carry a best-before date? Those things that you held to be true sometimes have a way of being overtaken by the heady rush of zeitgeist. Take vehicular weight as an example.

There’s no quicker way to ruin a car than saddle it with excess weight. That’s what’s been drilled into us ever since Colin Chapman decided

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