PECKING ORDER
Welcome… PECKING ORDER We had to stop and laugh recently when a discussion about replacing company lease cars saw us seriously considering electric Hyundai and Kia SUVs rather than the usual German-made suspects. As you can imagine, for people writing about cars for a living this represents a big change indeed. Nevertheless, it was a reminder of the speed with which the automotive landscape is changing. As you can read in this month’s news pages, the very future of some of our best-loved brands is looking bleak as the world order changes; two of my personal favourites, Jaguar and Alfa Romeo look set for troubled times as they try to reinvent themselves, although cynics would point out that it’s by no means the first time for either marque. And as…