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I believe it is customary at this time of the year to wish one’s readers a Merry Christmas. Bah, humbug. It is you who should be wishing me something festive, as a big Thank You! for slaving away behind a hot steering wheel all year, not to mention pounding away at a keyboard in order to brighten your lives with wit and wisdom.

Week after week, car after car: an incessant stream of Aston Martins, Ferraris, Porsches and so on, each demanding to be driven as if I had nothing better to do. How would you like it?

And then there’s the filming: driving backwards and forwards just so that some wet, freezing-cold cameraman can point his miserable lens at the latest piece of confection. It’s not funny – only the other day I had to turn up the heater.

And would you want to be stuck in front of a MacBook for an hour on end when you could be working all day at a proper job? When you struggle out of bed at 8.30 every morning and dash off to some forlorn station to wait for the latest cancellation, spare a thought for those of us who are deprived of a regular routine; those of us who know nothing of 8.30; those of us who wait not for bright, clean trains with seats for everyone, but for inspiration; inspiration which sometimes can be found only after several tiresome hours of doing absolutely nothing.

So this Christmas, spare a thought for me. I know it’s too late to buy any decent Christmas cards, but a £10 note looks quite decorative, and can be recycled.

This is nonsense, of course: without you, New Car Net would not have become the UK’s leading independent online motoring resource. For sure, we have worked our butts off to get it right; to bring you all the latest cars; to entertain, inform and advise you; but without you we would have nothing to celebrate but our own self-esteem. So, on behalf of the entire New Car Net team, can I say a huge festive Thank You! and wish you a very enjoyable Christmas and a New Year enriched with pleasure and success.