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Baffling badges & endless options

► Let us forget about EV’s and hybrids just for a while and cast our minds back to a less sterile world of motoring. A time when taxing your car cost either £55 or £100 depending on if you wanted a six or twelve month ‘rent’. A time when it wasn’t unusual to be milling around at your local dealer enjoying some primula on a cracker with a cheap glass of warm Liebfraumilch a few minutes before midnight on July the 31st moments before the new number plate letter kicked in. Thanks to the government knackering the kudos and excitement

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