Electric resistance

I’ve just read Richard Meaden’s column in issue 265 in which he explores his somewhat bereft feelings about motoring’s electricpowered future.

Now, I remember meeting Richard ona Performance Car track event back in the day and thought he was a grumpy bugger even then, but he is one of the best writers in the business – the best certainly when it comes to writing about racing cars, making you feel like you are right there in the cockpit. However, the aforementioned column represents to me a worrying trend at evo Towers.

Like taxes and the kids turning into teenagers, the future is inevitable, and we all need an escape every now and then, which is exactly what evo is to me: it feeds my fantasy of driving the cars you cover at the locations you visit.

But the dark cloud of an EV future is like a smog (oh the irony) starting to hang over evo’s output. I don’t like what’s coming any more than any other petrolhead, and face the very real prospect that by the time I can afford a track toy of any description it will be as elitist and unobtainable as owning a race horse, as Mate Rimac intimated in your recent interview.

In the meantime, then, let’s celebrate what we have and leave the soulless epod future to those who want and need it. Please, I’m too young for Classic & Sports Car! Andrew Muffett, Bristol

We always like to celebrate what we have, Andrew. In fact, we hope issue 260’s ‘We’ve Never Had It So Good’ story (Alfa Giulia Quadrifoglio, Alpine A110, Mercedes-amg A35, Hyundai i30 N & 911 GT3 RS) demonstrated just that – Letters Ed