Fleet Review;- The Grand Unveiling of the Official Car of RoadworkUK

Were this a proper website, surely every car manufacturer represented in the land would be tripping over themselves to furnish me with a long-term demonstrator, in the hope of this leading to praise gushing from these pages. As this is instead an amateur, update-when-it-suits-me type of operation, and is of course fiercely independent and won’t be lead by the corporate might of any organisation, I have to go it alone.

So, with no delivery-mileage Maserati glinting at me from the driveway, here, with great ceremony, is the newly adopted official car of RoadworkUK.

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Who cares if it's any good or not?

When a motoring magazine bestows a car with the honour of a good review, it serves only as a snapshot in time. It means that the car has been judged to be very good in each of the subjective areas that magazine deems important at the time. As I have commented before, though, it’s by no means any indication that you’ll actually like the car they’re discussing. And as time goes by, and a car gets older, that rating becomes basically irrelevant.

Take the Citroen Pluriel, for example. Even the most generous of car reviewers made no attempt to conceal the cars weaknesses, subjectively I rate it as one of the worst cars I’ve ever driven. Thing is, though, at least it was a memorable one.

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