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WRITE HAND DRIVE

Here’s what our Instagram-enabled monkeys

have been up to with their opposable thumbs...

Lust Magnet
I’m a sucker for big, rude SUVs
which is why I had such an
enjoyable Sunday reading the
December 2019 issue. I’ve only
ever approached a Mercedes-Benz
G-Class once in my life and I still
dream about the clunk of the door
shutting, and the sound of that
engine waking up. I’m also a sucker
for matte black. And that cover, with
the blanket of dust all around? Oh,
man. I’ll have two, please.
Kurt Fernandez proper riot once you floor the pedal, more intense bike than before! How
and then when it gets to the off-road is it that Alan gets to ride it before
We know what you mean. Everyone stuff, it continues to bully. There is a the world media does?
is a humble individual until they get problem, though. Like you, we also Sourabh Kumar
into a G-Class. There is something want two. But we can’t decide. Two
rudely obnoxious about it. It is a G350d’s? Two G63 AMGs? One of Sigh. We at Motoring World live a
each? Ah, the difficult decisions of the wonderful life. We think we are
obscenely wealthy. the luckiest guys on Earth… until
Alan sends in a story like that, and
we realise he’s the luckiest guy on
Orange Connect Earth. He’s spent decades building
Wait, another exclusive? This time a reputation that earns him invites
the KTM 890 Duke R? I had barely before anyone else. And during the
stopped salivating over the 790 Duke same weekend he rode the 390
(and pictures of Varad wheelieing Adventure, he rode this, too. We are
it to glory), and here I see Alan has just as jealous as you are, Sourabh.
gotten his hands on the next one! In the meantime, have you booked
And from what he writes, it’s an even your 790 Duke yet?

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