Later Life
Ivan Hirst died on 10 March 2000(2000-03-10) (aged 84). Just one month earlier, he had appeared in an edition of the British Top Gear magazine, which revealed the story of how Major Hirst revived the Volkswagen car plant. He was also photographed driving a new front-drive, front-engined Beetle in the magazine. Ivan Hirst had no children.
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