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Chips, Fish 'n' Chips

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Two distinct schools of thought exist at UMPH House.  The first holds that loud is good, louder is better and that exhaust and induction are at their best when combined to produce some form of raucous automotive rock concert.  School of Thought Number One also has it that there's hardly a single bit of a car that isn't somehow enhanced by being bigger or smaller, wider, squatter, stiffer, of greater wattage, lower profile, or otherwise different to that which was intended by said vehicle's original manufacturer. Mrs UMPH does not belong to that school of thought.  Not for her the throaty growl of a Weber or two ; no snarling or popping exhaust note when she lifts her elegantly clad foot from the accelerator.  Strangely, Mrs UMPH doesn't want to test her tyres' limits of cornering adhesion and seems perfectly happy with her compliant, plush even, suspension. No, Mrs UMPH has a grown-up's car: a Peugeot 206 CC and anything that she might be missing out on is p