Sixties GTS not so grand

Having driven a Maserati Sebring and Aston DB5 (‘Grand Trial’, June 2018), my underwhelming experience of them is at odds with the article’s panting praise. Ferrari has a reliability reputation, so I haven’t bothered. Comparison with two much cheaper and just as handsome cars, the Australian Monaro V8 and Pontiac GTO, makes you wonder why drivers of sense would buy these delicate Continental runabouts. Their cockpits are designed for small Europeans; North American and Australian physiques are cramped. And their fragile, temperamental and expensive to fix ohc engines would wilt and expire on the epic journeys we undertake in these countries.

Let’s have a little less genuflecting to cars that are expensive trophies but not really fit for purpose, please.