Lightning Past:- An A1 Odyssey.

 

The A1 (M), AKA the Great North Road, a trunk road that becomes a motorway whenever the mood takes it, has been doing sterling service whittling people from London to Edinburgh for a long, long time. This week I gleefully accepted the mission of delivering a car to a client in Edinburgh and returning in the car he was trading in; a 900 mile return journey.

I'm currently training to change roles at the dealership, a new exciting job beckons involving higher degrees of knowledge, skill and authority and, eventually, if my luck's in, maybe some more money. So, until the role goes permanent, I'll grab the chance exotic trips like these whenever they come up.

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Driven #31:- Audi Q7 3.0TDi

 

I love big cars. I'm absolutely thrilled if I get the chance to thread an Elise or a Noble along my favourite countryside party-route, and I get considerable joy from small cars in big cities. Feeling vulnerable is kind of exciting. But at the end of the day, when I just want to trundle home, or if I want to cross continents without furrowing my brow, I want a big car to do it with.

But there's probably an optimum size. In the BMW range, for example; I prefer the M5 to the M3. It's just more me; probably because it's bigger. They could even have built an M7 if they wanted, which wouldn't have been better; it would have been too big. It may well even have been rubbish.

And it was with thought of the relative values of bigness in my mind that I found myself at the helm of an Audi Q7; a car bigger than the likelihood of me being disappointed by my next pay-cheque.

 

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