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Motorhead writes...

As I have said before, my 2 litre Ford Focus Zetec is not a cool car, nor an especially fast car so perhaps I should trade down to a lighter friendlier model.

Alternatively I could embrace the power of technology in the form of my friend 'G'. He is a tech head who is never happier than when his laptop is plugged into a car's diagnostic port. He can run a programme that boosts my car's horsepower by something like 30%. It does this by remapping hundreds, if not thousands of perameters within the car's ECU chip. The guy is a certified genius.