Tuesday
Even for a car enthusiast whose opinions change as often as mine, it’s a great thing to find yourself writing that a particular car has changed your life. But that’s how I feel about the new Range Rover, in which I was able to cover 150 miles this week, including an hour on muddy tracks and through the lush woods of Eastnor Castle, the estate of the Herefordshire where every generation of Range Rover has been developed.
The new L460 hit so many highs in so many ways that I appreciate the most – low road noise, superb steering, smooth and beautifully damped ride, ultra-quiet bump absorption, brilliant stability, sure grip in long corners at high speeds – which I returned with more regret than I remember from a test car in years.
In our business, people often want to know what car you would buy strictly for your own use. Usually I don’t have an answer, as I am mesmerized by the many great cars on offer these days. Now yes.
Wednesday
We’re nearing the end of the academic year, which means that unless they’re deliberately hiding, crunchies are invited to either comment on aspiring journalists’ end-of-year projects or participate in them by being interviewed. On several occasions over the past two weeks, far from dispensing wisdom, I have drawn inspiration from these energetic, optimistic, and remarkably wise young people, who look squarely at the upheaval to come in our personal transports and carve out a role for themselves with confidence.
The future is exciting, no doubt, but the modern uncertainties around cars and media are daunting compared to what happened when my dad had a V8 and my ambition was to own a better one. The students I meet do not hesitate to conceive of a different future. I will take advantage of their success.
Thusday
When I first read that Ford had joined Volvo in calling for a ban on new ICE cars in Europe from 2035, I wondered why they bothered. Most European automakers have already announced that they will only produce zero-emission cars by 2035 or earlier. It turns out the appeal is a way to pressure the authorities to push forward the millions of chargers we will need, many of them in private homes, by the deadline. “We will do our part if you do yours,” they seem to say. Hope it works.
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Source: www.autocar.co.uk
This notice was published: 2022-05-25 05:01:24
