I agree with Howard as well. In the 80's CAR was the petrol-head's magazine par excellence. In the 90's we had Performance Car which was also excellent. CAR is a shadow of it's former self.
LJK Setright was a prince among motoring journalists. Everything he wrote was superb. He was the only writer that could discuss Weber Carburetors, Honda, the Quabbala, Bristol cars, Rabbinical Judaism and Xenophanes in one sentence. A very erudite and eloquent writer - I have a few of his books at home, including his magnificent tome on the Grand Prix car, and I seek them out whenever I can on ABE books. Apparently, his book on Bristol cars has to be treated with caution because he had to twist the truth a little or else Tony Crook, the domineering and tyrannical owner of Bristol, would not have allowed him to publish it.
He wrote a great article on the Plus 4 which I also have at home. He said (words to the effect of ) " a Morgan just is..." (ie: you have to accept it on its own terms or else move on). He loved the "Englishness" of the car ("never mind the proximity of Wales"). He had a Morgan three wheeler as a young man, on which he wrote -
"There is something so intrinsically right about a tricycle properly planned - the most vital criterion being that the centre of mass should be as low as feasible. That was certainly true of the low-slung Moggie: when I first took my brother out for a drive he shook his pipe out over the side prior to recharging it with tobacco, felt a slight jar and brought his hand back holding merely the stem, for the bowl had hit the road and shattered! The Morgan was not to be criticised for this, but rather the design of tobacco pipes."https://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/2742921/Setrights-Morgan.html
