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In article ,
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
tim... wrote:
claiming that as it's a "city" car it only needs a range of 100 miles
isn't valid as everybody needs to do the 300 mile trip once in a while
and a car that can't do that for you is useless as your main car.


Which is why you get the nonsense of people using Chelsea tractors to take
the kids to school.


some 10 year go, there was a cartoon in one of the colour weekend newspaper
supplements: A woman said "We wnt our child to have plenasty of space,
fresh air and security." "So, we've bought a large 4x4 with air
conditioning and central locking."

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