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Who is Karla Pincott?


She's never stopped wanting to own one, but in the meantime has consoled herself with a range of temperamental machinery, starting with a BSA Bantam as an early introduction to the idea that vehicles can often have personality or reliability - but rarely both.

In several years of motoring journalism, most recently as carsguide's online editor, no assemblage of machinery - new or old - has ever disproved that theory.