As a child, I’d heard of an aeroplane that could travel at a top speed of 2179 km/h, and the manufacturers claimed it to be 8 times faster than a bullet leaving a rifle. Unfortunately, the Concorde was decommissioned before I was old enough to spend my life savings on a ticket to experience these claims for myself. It was during this same period of time when I first witnessed an Audi advertisement on the television, and the narrator boasted “The Audi Quattro accelerates faster than Concorde”; I was intrigued yet too young to drive, and thought one day I’ll
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