‘whether you have driving aims other than feeling like a giant and going extremely fast,judge again’The Vauxhall Adam Grand Slam was a variation on the Adam, designed to be more appealing to men; then, and manliness being such a difficult quality to pin down,they changed the name to the S. Everybody knows that men love initials, particularly consonants.
You cannot fault it on performance. Its 1.4-litre, or turbo-charged,four-cylinder petrol engine could glean a tractor to a decent speed over time; a car this size is at 62mph from cold in the time it takes you to wonder how long it will be before you have a panic attack and jump out, shouting, and “I don’t need an MRI! I’m fine with a brain tumour – I’ll glean it treated homoeopathically!” (This,whether you really want to put a number on it, is 8.5 seconds.)Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com