The wheels are standard on the Competition Pack already. Colour is nice though but you could probably even get that via BMW Individual.

Seems a touch light to say the least. The last speeding fine I ever had in the UK was for doing 102mph on an empty motorway (literally me and the police car who was hiding up a slip road). I received a two month ban and a £400 fine. That was in 2003 and it seemed like I’d gotten off lightly then!

Possibly, but I think bike racing was/is particularly macho; Pat Moss was pretty famous in rallying at around the same time and her sex was seen as a big selling point (BMC were big backers, although being Stirling Moss’ sister didn’t hurt either). Bike racing hasn’t really opened many doors to women even down to the…

I’m pretty sure lots of presidential candidates have had voice coaching. Probably the most famous example of a politician who completely changed their voice, and relevant to Hilary Clinton, would be Margaret Thatcher, who was trained to lower the pitch of her voice significantly.

Other cars are available. Tesla is no more a monopoly than Apple is.

The only airport in the world where I don’t mind a delay. They do everything right in there. Nice full-length loungers for one, rather than trying to sleep on some bench designed by a sadist to make sure you do don’t get any sleep, ever.

So? For 130,000 paying customers its not the best circuit in the UK to watch motorsport, and never has been. And Britain isn’t exactly large; Donington is an hour’s drive from Silverstone and Brand’s Hatch is two. Like I said a British GP is essential, but it doesn’t have to be Silverstone. Of course now that…

Silverstone? I get the rest, and I would always want a British GP, but Silverstone doesn’t have any particular allure. It was the very first GP I went to (eek! 37 years ago - a rare day out with my Dad and his boys without my Mum), and have been back dozens of times since, and from a spectator pov, well, it’s always…

Pah,

Your scales are all a bit off. With the muzzle loading cannon of the time you needed quite a bit of recoil and reload space, that would mean a big, wide platform, not a problem on a ship or a train, but would have made for huge traction engines, that when you add the requisite coal and on board ammunition, would have…

I doubt it was just emissions that was the problem; pedestrian impact regs were probably another big (and more intractable) factor. Of course now the UK is leaving the EU I’m sure it will be a bright future where cars can be made out of razor blades and danger, just like in the old days when no one was foreign.

Doesn’t work that way in the UK. Trust me, as someone only a few years younger than Clarkson who spent their formative years drinking in places like Doncaster (I lived in Hull, about 30 miles away), Clarkson was not anyone’s idea of a chav.

“Ridding ourselves of toxic political leaders”...and replacing them with what exactly? Do you see any of that shower of shite going for the Tory nomination that you’d actually want to vote for? And Labour is worse.

Well, now, will they? Possibly not as the United Kingdom anymore. I for one have my Irish passport application in.

Yay, Gravity Bolivia. I literally have the t-shirt.

White trash? He’s about as middle class as they come. Minor public school, from a long line of middle-England managerial/entrepreneurial types.

In the countries where Amazon Prime actually operates. I assume they’ll go for syndication elsewhere.

The Moon landing. I think. But I definitely didn’t see it on TV because I lived in South Africa at the time and (believe it or not) in 1969 they had no TV. But I remember building a papier-mache rocket in creche (I would have been just four).

Friend of my Dad got killed at the Island as a sidecar passenger (the guy on the right. The guy on the left took me on the back of a Suzuki Katana 1100 once, to 150mph, on a public road. I was 16, and I had a broken arm. And the Katana was not passenger-friendly. It was a different time).

No. Your map is wrong. For example, Turkey west of the Bosphorous is Europe, east of it Asia.