There’s an enjoyable story which our sibling title Classic & Sports Car covered about a TVR Griffith, an MG RV8 and a Marcos Mantara. Or at least it’s a story that I was enjoying, right up to the point when I remembered that I had read a group test of those three cars when they were new, which was 1993 but seems like about three weeks ago. And yes, of course I’ve bored several office colleagues about this.
But I also think it’s easy to forget that, for example, a late-1990s Daewoo Lanos was unspeakably bad in a way that we don’t have to tolerate today. It’s not the quality of today’s cars that underwhelms me but rather the quantity that overwhelms. In 1993, I could have told you the trim level and price of a car by a glimpse of its wheel. Today, I could stare for several minutes at a premium SUV and still be a little foggy about its name.