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DRIVING IN CIRCLES

thomas_jervis@autovia.co.uk

SOMETIMES, it’s easy to know when a relationship is on the wane: you start to see the person less and less, and wonder whether someone else could ever provide the excitement you once thought only they could.

For many, this is how we feel about our connection with the beloved manual handbrake. As we embrace this new, digital age, manufacturers are routinely swapping traditional levers for minimalist electrical switches. While these do help remove clutter from a car’s centre console, they aren’t as involving as their analogue cousins and don’t allow you to engage in any kind of hooliganism such as handbrake turns.

With this in mind, Abarth invited us to say a

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