MONDAY
I'm not an Aston investor, but I'm going to enjoy watching the company's progress closely.
As our testers will tell you, its cars are better than they have been for decades. Other great products are coming. And Aston has fallen so far now that it must surely be at a carpet level.
Hallmark is smart, is determined and likes problems. He has a far better understanding of manufacturing than most CEOS, plus an instinct for clear communication. Judging by these first utterances, he also has decent freedom to operate - although we have still to see how prominent Aston chairman Lawrence Stroll intends to be.
Call me crazy, but I think and hope we're now looking at recovery.
TUESDAY
I took myself back to Caterham's new headquarters in Kent, along with my elder son, to get more serious about buying a car. I went by train for the ridiculous reason that a crane was blocking my garage. The associated fuss, which included trudging a mile in the rain, made me ever surer that private cars would endure.
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