Enrico De Vita, one of the most experienced automotive journalists, was the guest of the programme "A conti fatti", hosted by Giuliano Giulianini and broadcast on Vatican Radio. The subject, much debated in this period, concerned the concentric attack on the diesel engine, which seems to be destined to be the scapegoat of several administrations unable to address and solve the problem of pollution. De Vita, just as many of his illustrious colleagues (see some of their speeches at the bottom of this page) have failed to listen, has defended the most recent diesel engines with various arguments...

This sad and instructive story happened to my father and his two friends at the time of their dawn of the middle-aged crisis. Well, let's start with the order. We all know that the decommissioned cars from government agencies should be sold at auction, but, as a rule, they are bought by direct employees of the same institutions, and at a tiny (estimated) price. I won't go into details of the deal, so as not to cause a lot of complaints and accusations, just stating the fact that once my dad and...