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David Wilkins

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Slow-living cardiologically challenged Fenlander trying to cram less and less into each day. I write about cars but not as much as before. Electric is my thing (EV-ing since 2013). Life-long Labour member of a centrist persuasion. English of Welsh extraction. Interested in Germany (lived there twice). US politics/CNN fan. Like cats but I don’t have one myself. Studied at Oxford and Bayes. Live in the beautiful cathedral city of Ely. Background pic: North Shore beach at Skegness. #davidsdailycar

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David Wilkins
@davidwilkins@mastodon.online

Slow-living cardiologically challenged Fenlander trying to cram less and less into each day. I write about cars but not as much as before. Electric is my thing (EV-ing since 2013). Life-long Labour member of a centrist persuasion. English of Welsh extraction. Interested in Germany (lived there twice). US politics/CNN fan. Like cats but I don’t have one myself. Studied at Oxford and Bayes. Live in the beautiful cathedral city of Ely. Background pic: North Shore beach at Skegness. # davidsdailycar

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David Wilkins
David Wilkins
@davidwilkins@mastodon.online

Slow-living cardiologically challenged Fenlander trying to cram less and less into each day. I write about cars but not as much as before. Electric is my thing (EV-ing since 2013). Life-long Labour member of a centrist persuasion. English of Welsh extraction. Interested in Germany (lived there twice). US politics/CNN fan. Like cats but I don’t have one myself. Studied at Oxford and Bayes. Live in the beautiful cathedral city of Ely. Background pic: North Shore beach at Skegness. # davidsdailycar

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@davidwilkins@mastodon.online · Mar 07, 2026

Over the last few days, I’ve posted several air-cooled rear-engined Porsches and Volkswagens. Porsche produced air-cooled cars until 1998, and the 911 has stuck with its rear-engined layout to this day. But in the 1970s, Volkswagen knew it had to modernise fast, and nothing exemplifies the switch better than this crisply (Giugiaro) designed front-wheel drive water-cooled first-generation Golf. Pic from my brother (VW Iconic display in Berlin).

#davidsdailycar #Volkswagen #WeirdCarMastodon

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David Wilkins
@davidwilkins@mastodon.online

Slow-living cardiologically challenged Fenlander trying to cram less and less into each day. I write about cars but not as much as before. Electric is my thing (EV-ing since 2013). Life-long Labour member of a centrist persuasion. English of Welsh extraction. Interested in Germany (lived there twice). US politics/CNN fan. Like cats but I don’t have one myself. Studied at Oxford and Bayes. Live in the beautiful cathedral city of Ely. Background pic: North Shore beach at Skegness. # davidsdailycar

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David Wilkins
David Wilkins
@davidwilkins@mastodon.online

Slow-living cardiologically challenged Fenlander trying to cram less and less into each day. I write about cars but not as much as before. Electric is my thing (EV-ing since 2013). Life-long Labour member of a centrist persuasion. English of Welsh extraction. Interested in Germany (lived there twice). US politics/CNN fan. Like cats but I don’t have one myself. Studied at Oxford and Bayes. Live in the beautiful cathedral city of Ely. Background pic: North Shore beach at Skegness. # davidsdailycar

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@davidwilkins@mastodon.online · Feb 26, 2026

Today, more extraordinary ordinariness from last year’s Festival of the Unexceptional. This is a Vauxhall Nova four-door saloon. The Nova hatch was launched in 1982 and the saloon came along a couple of years later. In most European markets, this car was the first-generation Opel Corsa but Vauxhall reportedly thought the word Corsa carried unfortunate implications of coarseness. Later generations of the car were badged as Corsa in the UK as well.

#davidsdailycar #Vauxhall #WeirdCarMastodon

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