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Super Cars

Mike Lawrence

There is a section in The Sunday Times called In Gear and it is basically boys’ toys, with cars as the headline, plus pod things, which I do not understand. Every week it features a new supercar, and even then it doesn’t get all of them, supercars are everywhere.

England has long had a cottage industry of sports car makers, but now they are popping up in Holland, Sweden, Spain, Denmark, even Russia, while Germany can boast several very competent marques. It is Germany that has surprised me because while Audi, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz are now willing to supply some of their superb engines to independent makers, the automotive culture in Germany has tended not to encourage the little guy.

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