They don't even need to hide them: that damn self-centering stalk is enough to make people not use it.

Sometimes you have to use music to fill gaps in the editing (you really don't want silence or chatter of cameramen), but we try really hard to get good audio recordings of the exhaust.

and a guy who drove a 2015/16 Miata

I think he was giving you the cold shoulder as your reputation with VW proceeds you.

If he says the word "Barra," it's a signal. For Mary Barra.

In American English, the cat is pronounced that way. I think the TV ads aired over here do the same.

clearly the Pagani Huayra is near top of the list, but due to it's low volume and uber-hyper-car-only-top-gear-watching-jalop-petro-heads know about it status I would nominate the following;

#COTD

Bostonians have no issues pronouncing it.

Is this better?

I'm having trouble finding financials and production figures from that far back, but would take a SWAG that they were maybe a fourth as big a company as they are now. The US economy was on a bit of an uptick but things were not so hot in Western Europe, and the BRICs were mostly not there as even potential markets…

Could also be a VW CC, scale seems a bit off for the 200.

I think it's a Passat.

The only thing many see in their mirrors are their own face or rear fenders.

Worse:

Use your turn signal

Great now I'm crying.

you don't know this, but this is Patrick George's favorite gif

RIP Hilborn.