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Finance nerd with a big love for cars.
Stories (3)
Separating men from boys: my first car was a manual 981 Boxster S
Manual, rear-wheel drive, over 300 horsepower - and 24 years of waiting. How a GT Silver Boxster 981 S became the first Porsche with my name on the paperwork, and how the first speeding ticket arrived that very night to confirm the choice.
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The Great Ocean Road on 102 horsepower: the slowest car was the fastest decision
In Melbourne, facing one of the most beautiful coastal roads in the world, we did the opposite of the obvious: we skipped the convertibles and the fast stuff and booked a Suzuki Jimny. A trip about why, on certain roads, the slow car is the right car.
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The thief of joy stayed outside: collecting my first 911
Twenty years after the first time I sat in a 911 pretending to drive, I took a train to a place just north of Nottingham to collect my own. A story about dreams that take their time - with an F12 in the background, ice-grey seatbelts, and a heart rate of 160.
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