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the traditional solution. And that’s on
a good day. I’m sure that many of us
have been in cars that have given error
messages when sensors and cameras
are rendered useless by road dirt and
bad weather. Where’s the back-up, the
redundancy, in the form of a regular
mirror? It’s just not there.
Ray White
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I once again find myself wondering
why World Rallying is getting so little
coverage. It’s a series with everything:
intense rivalry, enduring comradeship,
uncanny teamwork, extraordinary
cars and incredibly varied scenery. But
to watch it on TV you need to have
BT Sport, or wait for highly truncated
highlights on 5. Or you can pay money
for the official WRC feed.
And despite the strong British
involvement, there’s precious little
about it in the papers or indeed in CAR
magazine. I don’t want to do F1 down,
but I really don’t see why F1 gets so
much coverage and WRC gets so little.
Dan Williams
Greatest hits
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If, like me, you tend to accumulate a pile
of CAR magazines over several months
and then read them all at once when
the opportunity arises, you’ll notice
certain themes: 911s are great, M5s are
great, Golf Rs are great, Caymans are
great, Q7s are great. But what about a
shootout? The 911 might appear in a
Sports Car Giant Test and the Golf in
Hot Hatch of the Year, but it would be
good to see them all compared on the
same road (or track) at the same time.
Will Baxter
A best of the best test? Nice. BM
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I enjoyed your three-man test of the
Porsche 911 (March 2019), but I wonder
if this journalistic approach might
have been more valuable on a car that
prompted more disagreement. Maybe
when the electric VWs go live we’ll learn
more from a multi-pronged approach- it’s hard to believe that you’ll all be
equally enthusiastic.
Ellen Murray
Seven up
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Your thought-provoking coverage of
the secondhand market (March cover
story) missed a trick by not including
any MPVs. Terribly unfashionable, of
course, but that means some excellent
bargains are to be had. As you’ ll know
if you’ve tried one lately, the SeatAlhambra and Ford S-Max drive very
well, and are far more than simply
family transport.
How about a 35,000-mile S-Max
Vignale for just over £20,000? Or a
10,000-mile Alhambra 2.0 TDI SE for
the same price?
If you’re worried that they’ ll lose all
their value, well, that may turn out to be
the case but the world isn’t going to stop
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