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Instant win thanks to Koenig.

Having to call your parents for a lift after rolling the car they gave you into a ditch. On the up side, I did get a Rover 100 (pretentious Austin Metro) off the road for good.

I suppose it is a return for a works Bentley team. Sounds like you need coverage from a Brit........ 😉

Jaguar XK180 as even though we have the F-Type at last, this makes it look like a bulldog chewing a piss covered hornet.

Motor Trend & Car and Driver's car of the year for 1983 the Renault Alliance. I can't see these being overly suited to most of America.

If only F1 rules mandated a carb fed pushrod V8. That's my shit stirring done for the evening.

I love Sniff Petrol, written by Top Gear's script editor Richard Porter in fact.

That brings back memories, I had a Bburago Delta S4 and Ferrari 512BB as a kid :)

Nice! Bburago?

Nice model, BBurago?

Ferrari 126 C4 gets my vote. It might not have actually been any good but that is one hell of an arrow.

Lotus Carlton/Omega. It was a 380bhp super saloon capable of nearly 180mph, figures that would shame most Porsches and Ferraris when it was launched in 1990. The tabloid press had a field day over how 'irresponsible' it was to have this much performance in a 4 door saloon, it really was front page news in the UK.


Nissan Primera/Infiniti G20. The Infiniti could have been another stodgy attempt at a small luxury car but instead you got a car that had been developed on the Nurburgring (before it was cool) by people who were involved in various Nissan GT-Rs. Oh, and the Primera kicked arse in the BTCC too.

Steyr Puch Pinzgauer as they are ridiculously good off road and have military history too. Having the option of 6 wheel drive doesn't hurt either.

BMW have a long history of April Fool's jokes, this one from 1988 is one of my favourites. At a time when headlight wipers were a pretty hot item, this must have fooled a few yuppies.

They definitely saw a Mini once, a very long time ago.

Just because it's so hilariously bad, the Lifan 320 and BMW Mini.

Runflat tyres because the future is (probably) airless. How we'll laugh at those rock hard sidewalls and how we used to drive on 4 balloons.

Jaguar D-Type. It's got seating for one, a huge steering wheel and I'm pretty sure that aero screen has some razor like edges. Try the exterior instead and you'll have a pretty good arse imprint thanks to the fragile aluminum skin. There is no happy ending here.

Hatchback ice hockey! I would happily watch action like this for hours, possibly days. Another great idea from the Top Gear team.