[YoungManGW]

I have to say, all the comments bemoaning a growing lack of interest in, say, classic cars, betrays a complete failure to understand how nostalgia operates. As a crude rule, we all gravitate back to those things that were new or newish when in our teens and 20s - music, cars, technology, etc. - when, arguably, the world felt at its biggest and most exciting. A car from the 1980s may be thought of as modern by many on this forum, but is still 30+ years old, i.e. it's a classic to someone in their 40s or 50s. Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

As to the BVWS, just two thoughts. First, name changes make no difference if the product remains the same, and are often ridiculous. Remember the Post Office/Royal Mail's disastrous and cretinous change to Consignia? Second, we live in an evolutionary world. Things change; one either adapts and survives, or goes west. If people want, see a need for, change, then armchair moaning doesn't cut it. As folk used to say before we all got so earnestly polite, "Put up, or shut up." I run an annual vintage/classic/interesting car show. I can't begin to tell you how much moaning goes on, always from people entirely uninterested/unwilling/incapable of helping. "I'm only suggesting" doesn't cut it. DO something, or shut up!

Regards,
Richard