AND A BUG IN FLIGHT

Father-and-son duo Andre and Jake Severs are selling their VW Beetle, a winner in Modern Classics at Thruxton. It was one of 50 built for the European New Beetle Cup series in the early 2000s: number 26 to be precise. It looks like a normal ‘new’ Beetle but, when parked alongside its road-based counterpart, you can see it’s much wider. It retains a front-wheeldrive system and, coupled with its short wheelbase, it’s highly effective in wet conditions.