Little lagoons, glassy blobs of brilliant blue water, punctuate the ride, pockets of sharp colour in barren nothingness.

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Hosted by knowledgeable guides who colour their commentaries with sharp Scouse wit, the tour breezes past myriad sites now etched in popular folklore.

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The LF-CC is finished in a new, 'Fluid Titanium' exterior colour, a metallic finish with exceptionally high brilliance which combines sharp, bright highlighting with dark shaded surfaces to reinforce the powerful forms of the bodywork's sculpted surfaces.

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These so-called quantitative traits are under the control of a number of different genes acting in concert as opposed to qualitative traits such as human eye colour, where a difference in a single gene produces a single, sharp distinction.

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