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STEPHEN BAYLEY

no longer own a car. If that seems incongruous for someone with a regular presence in a car magazine, I would simply say that theatre critics don’t have to own theatres. My thing is, I enjoy looking at cars as much as using them (and I enjoy using them a lot). The carnival of traffic I find forever fascinating: if someone established a university chair devoted to car-spotting, I’d be an ideal, possibly unbeatable, candidate. And since the University of Florence now has a post-grad

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