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Clive Webber, via email
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SONIC BOOM
Your recent article on the Sonic 1 in-wheel electric motor (News, 22 January) reported that each unit would add 40kg of unsprung weight. I’m just wondering what happens when a car fitted with such meets a British pothole. Will the driver simply be ordering a replacement for a bent wheel or will they be seen alongside the highway, collecting up parts of a motor?
Stephen Wisdom Via email
HUSH MONEY
Paul Ehrmann asks for a quieter Porsche 911 (19 February). I have a typically noisy 991 and recently test drove a 992 that was fitted with the optional lightweight and noiseinsulated glass. It was substantially quieter, so much so that Inow consider this a must-have option should I decide to replace my car.
Given that just about every tester of a 911 comments on the high level of road noise, I do wonder why Porsche doesn’t make the noiseinsulated glass a standard feature in the UK at least. But of course they then wouldn’t be able to charge an additional £1151 for it, would they?
Stephen Holliday Bramber, West Sussex
EAGLE-EYED READER
I enjoy your Road tests revisited column. My attention was drawn to the 1978 Pontiac Firebird TransAm in the 19 February issue. “A massive V8 under a shaker hood, painted with a golden eagle.” It’s actually a phoenix, often called a firebird, hence the name.