I am contemplating my next, and possibly last car. Increasingly new cars are being introduced without spare wheels, the sales tag is "when did you last have a blowout?"

The answer is a couple of years when a sharp item went through the tyre wall.

How can manufacturers be allowed to produce models which have no provision to sensibly store a spare wheel? As a retired police driver I know that often a puncture is only discovered too late to save the tyre and often at an inconvenient time and place. Try finding a tyre shop at 2 am!

What do people think of this invidious attempt to take a few kilos off the weight to bolster the consumption figures at the expense of safety?