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A QUESTION OF LUXURY

Unlike most people his age, you’ll find Jarryd admiring the wood trim and refined powertrain of a luxury car before he’s fascinated with blistering lap times. In his spare time, he searches Gumtree for financial ruin in the form of elderly Jags, BMWs and Mercedes-Benzes.

Coco Chanel once said, “Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.” I think the French fashion icon was onto

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