What do you suppose once you come throughout or drive up behind a newish small car? Something like a Kia Picanto, MG 3 or Suzuki Swift.
Do you suppose that there should go a sensible individual, as a result of compact automobiles are mild and uncomplicated and straightforward on consumables? That this driver needs to be fairly enlightened, assured inside themselves, to decide on one thing as sensible and normally very competent and refined but critically unassuming?
Do you credit score them for resisting the costly drip funds that might have led them to a extra glamorous but no higher badge on their driveway?
Do you look and suppose that there’s a cause why these client motoring consultants on the world’s longest-established automotive journal, Autocar, are so taken with automobiles like this?
Or do you look and suppose, like a kind of client motoring consultants from Autocar (me), ‘come on, Doris, get out of the way. I’m in an Audi/Mercedes/Tesla and I’ve obtained locations to go’?
Sigh. I’m sorry about this. I genuinely am. But yesterday I came across a small new automotive on a twin carriageway that exited a roundabout and stayed within the overtaking lane, exhibiting no intention to overhaul something, and thought much less kindly about it than I might have performed if it had been, say, a brand new German SUV – a automotive that I do know would both get its skates on and begin passing issues or pull over to the left. I assumed the town automotive doggedly wouldn’t, as certainly it didn’t.
I do know I’m not alone in considering issues like this. I commonly drive automobiles on each side of the dial and I do know you get extra affected person remedy from different highway customers in one thing swanky than you do in one thing small and low cost.
Do you drive a complicated firm automotive? The subsequent time you’re taking it for a service, ask for the most cost effective, smallest courtesy automotive the storage has to learn how it feels to be bullied relentlessly by individuals who assume issues about you.
