Steve Sutcliffe: Quick thinking The number's up, in two ways

摘要

This is how it started. "Hello, Mr Sutcliffe. It's Carl from SB Motors," said Carl from SB Motors. "Hello, Carl. How did it do?" I enquired, gingerly. "It failed," he said, "on quite a few counts." It was the "on quite a few counts" aspect that seemed so hard to accept. It was as if our much-loved Citroen ZX Avantage D had been read its last rites and cremated, its ashes spread across the great breaker's yard in the sky, long before I'd even been made aware that it was poorly.