Here's One For The Self-Preservation Society

Found this nice little Italian Job at my friendly petrol station this morning.

It is, of course, a Fiat.

An X-19 to be exact.

Talk about bloody nonsense. The Triumph TR7 came out around the same time as the Fiat. The Triumph was front-engine, rear drive 2-litre, and the Fiat was mid-engine, rear drive 2 litre.

Fiat is still in business. Triumph is extinct except as a brand-name owned by BMW.

Then, they said that the Triumph was no good because it only looked like a mid-engined car.

Now, they say that a true sports car has to be -:yes!Front engined, rear drive.

The scum manage to bring this out just as Rover goes bust, with the mid-engined MG-F.

The motoring pundits are like the mainstream press in one respect; they stick, tortuously, perversely, to their prejudices, even if it means destroying entire industries.

Me, I like the Fiat. And the Triumph was beautiful, although not well enough built.