![]() V6s are still available in a small (and dwindling) handful of family sedans like the Toyota Camry and Honda Accord, but they are optional – and expensive. Most of Hyundai’s current car lineup is four cylinder-only, including its mid-sized family sedan, the Sonata. Mazda doesn’t even offer a six in its mid-sized family sedan (the Mazda6) or for that matter in any passenger car it currently sells. Just as V8s were purged from the engine compartments of the family sedans and (and station wagons) Gen Xers like me grew up in, so also the V6-powered family cars Millennials grew up riding in are quietly doing the fade-away. Neither will most of their parents.Įven Cadillac – GM’s luxury line – which was once defined by its big V8s (bigger than anything you could get in a mere Chevy or Buick) now sells just one passenger car with a V8, the $85k CTS-V. High school kids won’t be driving one anytime soon. Copies of both of these can be found for less than £10, and often at little more than the cover price of Leonard James’s book.GM’s Chevrolet division – which once included or at least offered a V8 in almost every car it sold – today offers one in just three models, all of them specialty high-performance cars and only one of them (the Chevy SS sedan) having four doors and the ability to carry more than two people. These are James Beedle’s “43(F) Squadron: History of the Fighting Cocks, 1916-84”, which has just been reprinted and brought up to date, and Andy Saunders’ book in the Osprey Aviation Elite Units which concentrates on WW2. However, two very good histories have been produced for 43 Squadron. The Meteor F8 photo is of VZ460, used by the Central Fighter Establishment for tests with rocket projectiles and bombs.So, really this book is only worth purchasing if you have nothing else on the ‘Fighting Cocks’. Few of the RAF photos are of 43 Squadron aircraft. In actuality, the only quote in this book is from the News of the World !The photos are a disappointment also, with a formation of JU 87A Stukas and a Messerschmitt 109B representing the Squadron’s opposition during the Battle of Britain and a FW 190D9 under evaluation in the USA representing the ‘Anton’ of 1942. ![]() I was attracted to this book because of the strap line “real life accounts of fighting in the air from 1916 to the 21st century” and thus expected it to contain quotes from former members of 43. ![]()
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