Once again the Weekend Australian motoring section is embroiled in controversy. Not since Porsche went to water cooling or since Jeremy Clarkson accused an American in the audience of being a fake, because she wasn’t fat enough, have metal lovers tempers hit such Olympian heights.
And it’s all over comments in the column by the master of the muddled motor, the champ of the clunkers and the rajah of the rotten ride, the mechanical shah of The Shitbox Rally, Alex Hallowell. The rally leaves Adelaide on May 4 for Fremantle via Uluru.
Alex told readers that if they are thinking of entering this carnival of clunkers (nothing more that $1,000) avoid anything with ‘Alfa Romeo’ on the badge and anything with a Citroen, Peugeot, Renault, or Saab badge on it. If 250 emails full of vitriolic comments that even this column would be scared to publish doesn’t tell you there are some serious Europhilliacs out there then Mussolini was a Scotsman.
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