Bowling along without bias
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I READ with interest first G. A. Morgan's letter {CM, June 20) concerning impartiality of reports and then your road test on MAN-VW's MT8.136.
The gearstick is floor-mounted but across cab movement is otherwise unrestricted, you report. This is rather like saying apart from the iceberg the Titanic's maiden voyage was a complete success.
You admit to hazardous brakes and restricted vision yet still put it near the top of 7.5-tonners — 3 tons 13 cwt payload on an alloy dropsided-bodied 7.37 ton gvw vehicle is a joke.
I know of a British manufacturer producing two 7.38 gvw lorries, but more competitively priced, both with better payloads. One of these hasn't yet been afforded the luxury of a road test.
CM's bias is undoubted but their impartiality is otherwise unrestricted.
ANDREW DEA Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs We are in no way biased and always impartial, we road test what is offered. — Ed.