Are today’s cars nothing more than technologically-advanced covered wagons"  
As our perspectives change with time, what role does the modern car play in our lives"
Geoff Maxted of DriveWrite Automotive Magazine examines in this Letter From The UK.

?Quaint? is an old Middle-England word that once meant wise or skillful but, since around the 18th Century, has come to mean oddly picturesque or pleasing in an old fashioned way. Why, you ask, this lesson in Olde English"
Well, that?s the kind of pedantic, semantic guy I am and because it is relevant to this Letter From The UK.
Surveying The Land
Quaint then used to describe Great Britain as it once was. Sadly, the past is a foreign country; they do things differently there*. There is, alas, not much that is quaint about the UK today. Thankfully though the seeker of calm can still discover some pockets of blissful quaintness; quiet, sleepy villages, and lush countryside of great beauty where the only distraction is birdsong. This is the land where British traditions survive and maintain.
Among the most popular is the traditional farm shop; and they are just like they used to be in olden times, with locally-grown produce only now, of course, they?ve gone organic. With few exceptions these farms are not conveniently served by public transport. Ideally horseback is how we should do it, but these days we Brits prefer our personal iron transport of many horses: we go by car. Which finally brings me clumsil...