For much of the past few years, car production has been compromised by a global shortage of microchips. Why no manufacturer has seized the opportunity to market a microchip-free car (i.e. like all cars manufactured before the 1980s) I don’t know. I would certainly swap my too-clever-for-its-own-good Volvo V60 for such a model.
I haven’t met anyone outside a Volvo dealership who thinks this is anything other than absurd
In fact, I would happily swap my Volvo for a pair of walking boots. They would be of far greater use. Over the past four months my boots have taken me 200 miles across Iceland and 120 miles (as well as ten miles vertically) across Corsica. As for the car, well, it has been to a garage in Cambridge and a garage in Bury St Edmunds as I try to get it repaired after a weird act of self-harm.
It started one evening in May when, driving home in the twilight a small deer ran out of the undergrowth and into the road.
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