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Article: Motoring: With max power comes max responsibility An affordable, quick and fun to drive hot hatch - thank goodness the Citroen C2 VTS wasn't around when I was a lad, says Michael Booth
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 3, 2004
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I owe my existence to my mother's Fiat Panda, the car I learnt to
drive in and used for the first couple of years after I passed my
test. Now that the testosterone clouds of my teenage years have
cleared, I regard this utilitarian crate to have been my saviour. At
the time, of course, I loathed it; it was hardly the thing for a
dashing young blade to be seen around town in, and was about as much
use in a traffic-light burn- up as a pony and trap. But still, had I
been allowed behind the wheel of anything quicker - a sit-down
lawnmower, for example - I would undoubtedly have crashed and burnt
like so many young men of my petrol-headed persuasion. I was pie-
filling waiting to happen, and ...