May first co-presented Top Gear in 1999, before BBC decided to drop the show because of poor viewing rates (IIRC). He then rejoined the show in the second series in 2003 (replacing Jason Dawe), so you're quite right about May not being "ze brains" behind this.

one of the cleanest sedan shapes.. in the wooorld

USeless Airways one of the best airlines? They consistently rank as one of the worst. I have no expectation of them doing anything other than being terrible at everything in every possible way.

Answer: No, it can't. Why, you ask? Simple. No one would wear it. Cuz you'd look like you've got a paper mache taco salad tortilla bowl on your head, and no one wants that.

Scarbs (Craig Scarborough) on twitter says - "it would be a pretty poor TC if it created a stutter effect like that!

see-troh-enne, I'm reliably informed by a French person, is correct. How English people pronounce "Peugeot" annoys mE though. Clarkson, et al, and their own ad people, say purr-jo. It should be puuh-zho.

It's a German Sport Activity Mullet.

Over-styled in the front, under-styled in the back.

Dutch is wrong, there is no definitive agreement in English on what the plural should be. The problem being that Grand Prix is an anglicised French word and it would never be pronounced Grands even if you accept that form as the plural, which it would be in French. Grammar Nazi FAIL, if you're going to nit pick and…

What an odd throaty/fart type sound. It reminds me of an old school 70's euro racecar sound. Oh well, its still the testing phase im guessing

Mr E is spouting the usual nonsense then. I've heard one of the F1 V6s running on a dyno and it sounded fantastic - in fact, the pitch of the note is HIGHER than the current V8s. At the moment what you hear is two exhaust pipes putting out noise at 600hz. At 18,000rpm, one cylinder is doing 300 revs/second = 150…

Bernie is the only one still crying about the sound. Everyone else is saying that the V6 power units sound good; that, along with the engine, you also noticeably hear the turbo, and you noticeably hear the ERS. 16k RPM?... Pff. The turbo spins at 125k RPM.

Interesting; with the exception of its terrible, oddball C-pillar wings, I thought that the Phoenix concept was a very handsome car, and I noted that all of the things I like about it were more or less transferred what was to be this new 9-3, while all of the extraneous crap was left off. I agree that the proportions…