Donal Lenihan and Ronan O'Gara join Tony Leen to preview RWC19.

NO MORE than many observers, I was completely taken aback when the Nissan Leaf won last year’s prestigious European Car Of The Year title, becoming the first electric car to do so. It was not that this innovative and in some ways ingenious machine did not deserve the title, but I felt it was far too early in the development of the modern electric car to secure such a high honour.