If you ever meet a tubby motoring writer, what you see is not an example of beer belly but of launch paunch, the thickening of the waist produced by the excellent hospitality provided by motor manufacturers when introducing their new models.
I spend most of my time being fairly sensible and grown up but for a day or two a week, I don my anorak - metaphorically at least - for my work as a motoring writer in order to feed my obsession with cars. My stuff generally appears in The Independent where my main thing is The Verdict, which gives the Indy's readers the chance to try our test cars. I travel an awful lot and drive an awful lot of cars - most of which aren't awful at all. Lots of stuff happens along the way that doesn't make it into the paper. Wheelwobble is intended to fill in some of that background detail...
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