been to Beaulieu (pronunciation B-you-lee) many a times. Love the place. usually have different feature exhibits, last time (late 2011) it was Top Gear Challenge cars. They also had Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on display.

Ah, I always loved Top Gear, growing up with it but Mr Burns, err I mean Quentin Wilson is my absolute least favourite presenter by far. Even worse the that Jason Dawe bloke from Season one of the new Top Gear.

Ecclestone didn't come from a privileged background. He was the son of a Fisherman amd started as a lab assistant, the a used car salesman and is now worth $4.2bn just by working his way up and making some very smart choices. You have to be a certain type of person to manage something like that. Unfortunately that…

This is better than Lamboghini's treatment. But both are an affront to such a wonderful machine

NASCAR fans? They will defend their sport to the death. Even when they agree with your points as to why it's not very good.

As with most of Europe the plate stays with the car indefinitely regardless of change of ownership in France. But you can get creative with black and white electrical tape instead of stealing someone else's plates.

Leyland Olympian? £4250 or $7000 ish USD.

2CV, beautiful in the simplicity of it's form. The function took some getting used to

Canadian used car prices even for utter shitheaps are fkin ridiculous to be fair. However, I do believe you can enter a LeMons event in a car that was morw than $500 but you receive time penalties based on what you did pay.

As an Englishman, since the New BMW Mini's started coming I have felt something close to offence every time I have seen a new even more bloated version. I grew up with real Minis my great grandmother had a mini traveller (wagon) with the 998cc motor flat clubman nose and wood panelling. It was superb. So I've always…

a squirrel-hair brush or a squirrel hairbrush?

Buick LaCrosse. In the Quebec part of Canada it is slang for masturbation. http://www.cbc.ca/news/gm-faces-…

The new Clio looks ok. But it's fkin huge. Clios used to be little nimble fun machines but not anymore. I saw it and then realised there was a current Fiesta next to it for comparison. It dwarfed the Fiesta to a very alarming degree.

Turns out it is slightly different. But here is the video anyhow.

I think Fifth gear did and episode where they tested all manner of magic fairy dust powered fuel saving devices. This was one of them (or something almost identical) they also pulled it apart and said it was a load of old bollocks.

No Beaulieau Automotive Museum? It has everything. Old land speed record cars, F1 cars from most era, classic rally cars, last time I was there a Top Gear exhibit showing most of the challenge cars from the show. And to top it all off Chitty Chitty fkin Bang Bang.

The sounds used for all three cars in that same first bend were all identical. Even normal vs slo-mo. Also it wouldn't sound like that. The noise you are hearing it likely on concrete not tarmac.

Not window. Air intake that was designed in to not look like an air intake. That is pretty good design. It just follows the window sillhoette instead of a scopp jutting out. The 12C tub was always desgned to be used by several different models. Saying it's designed down to a price is erroneous. It was always going to…

'No Fault' doesn't actually mean nobody is at fault. It is a misleading term used by insurance companies based on the English 'knock for knock' system whereby a party's damages are covered by their own insurer even if found not at fault and no subrogation is sought. This is to save time and money for the insurance…

'No Fault' doesn't actually mean nobpdy is at fault. It is a misleading term used by insurance comapnies based on the English 'knock for knock' system whereby a party's damaged are covered by theornown insurer even if found not at fault and no subrogation is sought. This is to save time and money for the insurance…