Car Mechanics

Time is called on a load lugging legend

Certain things should remain unchanged, unaltered… sacrosanct if you like. Once, the motor industry moved along with the calm and gentle flow akin to a moving iceberg, whereby nowadays, partly thanks to yet more Government meddling telling us electric is the way forward (it isn’t, its hydrogen), the pace of change is like gazing from the window of a Eurostar. The news that I have just heard has saddened me to the core, the roads of the UK – nay the world in fact, will never be the same again as Volvo have just announced that they are to axe

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