My taste buds became attuned to the sweet tang of forbidden fruit via the Gran Turismo video game.
Many a car fan of my generation waxes lyrical about how this game turned them into petrolheads, but the truth is that I loved cars years before first firing up the PlayStation and from a young age I would often remind my parents unprompted, naturally -that the Renault Twingo my auntie owned in France wasn't for sale in the UK.
