A PT Cruiser almost ruined my holiday. Planning a road trip down Highway 1 from San Francisco to LA from the February Glasgow sleet we imagined we were booking a Mustang, a Camaro or even a Sebring (this was a few years ago). No, what awaited us at SFO was a metallic pink PT Cruiser convertible. To this day it remains…

*Blatent Self-Publicity Alert*

Is he not dead yet?

French Top Gear is/was still better than 95% of French TV. That said, I’m now actually trying to work out what that 5% actually is...

That’s not the original concept, that’s the VX-02 concept that came later. It’s now at the Petersen in LA.

Yes, quite... Having off-roaded my JDM Vehicross quite extensively then I’d say that whatever faults it may have (and there are many - at least it was officially sold in the US) then “fake 4wd” certainly isn’t one of them.

I love New Yorkers...

It’s weird and annoying, but Clarkson is right. In the UK people see a nice car and say “Bet that costs a lot in petrol.” They don’t celebrate it, admire the styling or the noise. They sneer.

I assume that’s a Sbarro? [wanders off to find out which one...]

I’d argue that the old Porsche Museum was actually cooler as it was about the same size as a dealer showroom and the cars were “just there” on the floor you could look into them and get up really close.

There is only one... The remains of the Circuit Reims-Gueux...

Me neither. Mostly because mine is sitting in my driveway with seized brakes... :/

I want to be angry with this and get all uppity about how the police are somehow “cheating”, but I can’t. They’re right and this is a good way of not just catching people not paying attention, but proving the point that they simply weren’t paying attention to their surroundings.

Loathe as I am to chip in about Babe, the original book “The Sheep Pig” by Dick King-Smith was even darker.

Not VBH. She’s fine to look at and a driver with talents I can only dream of, but her voice is like fingernails down a blackboard to me.

Similar thing - VAT is reclaimable is bought by a company and if it’s a “company car” it has (had?) similarly low benefit-in-kind taxation. Pre-hybrids, they were popular as company cars for a while, but a move to close the tax loophole and the realisation that they’re a PITA to park in British car parks put a lot of…

Yep, just like the Prius behind it...

This isn’t the first 4x4 Transit - County converted them for many years for utility companies and government agencies.

I’m going to pretend I’m offended by your VehiCross comments, whilst actually being chuffed it made it to the list.

Firmly embedded in my mind - often through garage bills... ;)