I’ll say! Earlier this week I was at a launch event in Bristol for the all-new Mitsubishi ASX, a compact crossover vehicle that will rival the Nissan Qashqai.
The test cars were parked outside a waterfront hotel, on a pedestrianised cobbled area between the building and the dockside. In its wisdom, Bristol City Council decided that we highly experienced motoring journalists, who drive thousands of miles each year on different roads all over the world, weren’t the best people to move these cars off the cobbled area and on to the public highway. No, council employees in high-visibility vests were clearly better qualified. So once allocated an ASX to drive, I had to wait five minutes for a council employee to arrive and move the car for me. And as I had been given the one that was closest to the road, it was a trip of less than five metres! I had to hand him the keys because me doing it would have been too high-risk. Utter tosh! Everyone agreed it was a totally ludicrous situation, but rules is rules. Mitsubishi bosses said that without agreeing to it, the event wouldn’t have happened. Bonkers.
The car (pictured) is actually pretty good; perhaps not as refined to drive on the road as the Qashqai, but decent enough as compact family transport. And it’s got a good package of environmental features as standard.
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