There’s an uncomfortable truth in motoring media that isn’t talked about very often: there are a lot of freebies going around. Some of them are necessary, of course. We can’t test a car properly without spending a decent amount of time in it, so it does mean getting a ‘free’ car for the week.
It’s also more convenient for the car’s manufacturer to fly the assorted European media out to Spain or somewhere else sunny than it is to bring the limited number of existing early production cars around to each country.