Snap!

This is not a Reliant Robin. It is a Reliant Rialto. The Regal predates the Robin, the Rialto followed it. Get it right, Perkins!

Clarkson himself reported the incident to upper management at the BBC. I guess he felt it would be better to manage the truth and deal with the consequences rather than wait for the whispers and rumours to bubble over.

Japan’s Nikkei reports that Honda is retooling its European operations in the wake of a recovering market there that has largely left them and other Japanese automakers in the dust. Europe will get the HR-V subcompact from Mexico and the Fit, which they call the Jazz, from Japan.

So, BMW stuck a few extra batteries in an '02 in 1972 and now claim that this was a big deal for alternative fuels? Wasn't the electric car almost 100 years old by then?

I think they're actually Mi-8/17 (two of them). The Mi-24 is a gunship (albeit with an impressive payload capacity), which wouldn't make for such a friendly welcome.

I'm more of a Mazda Bongo Brawny man, myself.

Jethro and Chris are friends. They have a friendly driving rivalry, so any excuse to make fun of each other is not wasted.

Besides, there's not just one Lada, after all. There's the Fiat-based Lada/GAZ 2105, the Samara, the Niva, of course, and a number of others. Still, to me, I bet the writers were picturing an early Zaporozets 965, like this one:

One of the many thousands of video shows on TV in the UK is a compilation of Russian dash cam footage. It's cheap entertainment, after all. However, the people who write the scripts have an amazing lack of knowledge about everything that appears on the screen. They just about figure out that a VAZ 2105 is a Lada, but…

I'm impressed, Doug. However, watching the end of the video, all I could think of was "Diff locks". Should I go see someone about that?

DeMuro!!!!! 2 hands on the wheel! You are not an NYC taxi driver (I think)!

er... yes..lol indeed

Skoda also knew how to have Fun with this concept. There was one parked outside my workplace yesterday, in fact. It didn't have ladies in it, though:

I bought a car in Japan, drove it around there for 18 months and then shipped it back to the UK. I didn't arrange to have the assistance of a Japanese person to do the de-registering and delivery to the port, so I got in touch with a Kiwi guy called Mick. The first time I met him was at a railway station, where I gave…

Don't think they make Kias any more. Nissan have moved in.

Oh nothing exciting...

The GT Academy graduates are going to be busy this year. They're not just wheeled out for promotional duties, they are at the core of Nissan's racing activities around the world. Lucas Ordonez is racing in the top echelon of Japanese GTs (Super GT GT500) as well as Japanese F3 and one-off appearances at epic races…

About 15 years ago, I worked on a compact hatchback car which had a test mule running around England disguised as a ugly van. It had flat panels shoddily attached over the curvy body and looked like a bit of a mess. The genius touch, however, was to add full-body livery for a fake locksmith company, complete with a…

Yay! Taillight savant - 90%. I'm excusing my failure to achieve a perfect score as I don't think I've ever seen the one I got wrong.