@tapz: Indeed. and so tunable - still forming the basis of a lot of club-level racing in the UK.

I saw her race in British f3 (or poss formula ford) at oulton park In 2002. The circuit commentators were talking about her as I arrived in the morning. Except it took a while, and the purchase of programme, to realise they weren't talking about an Irish driver called "Danny Kirkpatrick".

@Mediocre: I wonder if there's some level of bitterness involved related to the amount of money the BBC and the Production company are making out of Stig-branded books, toys, lunchboxes, and other merchandise (which hit a new peak last christmas). From one point of view, perhaps Collins thinks that's unfair use of his…

"Station wagon"?, I don't think we build station wagons in Castle Brom. it's an "estate".

I bet the real reason no-one wants to buy it is that they can't work out that the ignition key goes down by your hip, not on the column.

This seems daft.

Aren't the "production" ring times quoted by manufacturers timed from the bridge after you join the track, (at the end of the liong straight) to the bridge at the end of the track (at the start of the long straight) and that therefore not comparable (as they miss out around a mile of flat-out running)?

@GasGuzzler: they've been clamped for not parking in the marked box.

Everyone saying "road courses" is missing the point. that's not what NASCAR is, that's touring cars, aussie V8s or DTM. The problem is that many people who like oval racing (and I count myself among them) have been turned off by NASCAR.

@Unevolved has three moving parts.:

@gerald.davison: There is one thing - the EJ200 engine has been loaned to the team by the MOD, so there is govenrment backing there.

That's a great price for a genuine future classic. Always loved the Alpines and the GTA's just plain gorgeous.

Le Mans 1955. there's no question here.

Griff Rhys Jones. in his underwear, selling the Vauxhall Zafira about 10 years ago. Thankfully, there seems to be no trace of the image on the internet. I wish I could say the same about my brain.

@fwa2500: manufactured by the same company, as well.

@87CapriceEstate: Grand Prix Legends is a Computer game - only ever on PC...

@RuBBa_cHiKiN: North Gizmodo is Best Gizmodo: It was a program intended to shoot a spy satellite out of the sky. It's not (relative to a lot of aeronautical weapons challenges) that hard to achieve, which was in a sense the program’s downfall, as the US realized that if they started shooting down satellites, the…

@Michael McFarlane: Seconded with a vengance.