I have an affection for lost causes, as my wife, children, friends, publisher and independent financial advisor can all testify. And can there be any cause more lost than Hillman? A brand so lacking in allure? Even in an age of revivals, no-one will revive it.
Of course, Eastern bloc cars of the Khruschev-Brezhnev era were awful, often comically so. And this redeemed them. I have a special regard for the 1960 Syrena Sport, described as ‘the most beautiful Polish car’. That may seem
