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here it is the atom for a new from the
ground up design that looks completely
and utterly exactly the same as before
it's identical but genuinely this is an
all-new car the only bits carried over
from the old atom brake pedal clutch
pedal fuel filler cap that's your lot
everything else shiny new apparently but
get behind the wheel and you'll quickly
discover the changes are significant
although it has to be said at first
glance they're also a bit worried for
your legs via feet
you can even dial the engine down for
more relaxed driving a car without a
windscreen dog in fact any body work
whatsoever if you want comfort double
travel pillars there is one important
change though that's far more welcome
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behind me is a new engine taken from the
Honda Civic type-r hot hatchback which
when you wind the dial back to where it
should be
makes 320 horsepower and which when you
put your foot down helps the atom
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sorry bet they leave us you get the end
of a straight slightly younger than when
you started
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Wow against the heart going like a
triple espresso with a defibrillator
chaser
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not that atoms have ever struggled to
get the ticker ticking what they have
sometimes struggle with is the whole
going round corners thing
Monastery on Tori
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we're doing now as he disrespected our
moving
displayed its proud of his components a
lover
and when you've had enough of nimbly
carving up corners
happily played a delinquent
whoa
rawrr experience everything's flying a
the scenery
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can't get it up with it it's so extreme
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the new atom then really is an
incredible thing to drive but what's
less clear is if it's something you'd
actually want to earn
brilliant though it is this is a car
that does say something about its driver
specifically crippling midlife crisis
just below that I was too scared to buy
a motorcycle
and then there's the price the atom
starts at around 40 grand which does
seem like an awful lot of money for a
plan of ironmongery with a Honda engine
mind you and no floor mats but looking
in another way this is a car that will
annihilate any supercar on the right
Road
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in truth it's a bit of a bargain but
it's also more than that it's
life-affirming honestly if the state of
the world's ever getting you down
forget meditation
digital detox a quick spin in one of
these sort you right out
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you