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THERE’S NOTHING LIKE a 120-mile round trip to Brooklands, at rush hour – including the delightful section of the M25 past Heathrow – to put a recently recommissioned car to the test. After the initial bout of suspension work, a full service and a reasonably easy MoT pass, I was feeling optimistic. I had faith that my ‘new’ A2 would be up to the task.

It made it,

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