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Many motoring writers seem to spend endless time heading off around the world on new car launches (for that read lunches) in exotic places; although they say it’s to drive the cars.

It’s not something that’s ever really been a temptation. I’ve done a few drive events but only ever been on a foreign jolly once and that was 24 hours in Portugal in early 1985. Going somewhere sunny seemed like a good idea and a real temptation to escape the

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