‘try and explain the handbrake’

Are you sure it wasn’t the bleep machine?

96,000 RPM? How long does that take to spin up?

Two panels in the canopy can be punched out.

No. This does:

It’s surprising to have it in a show car / press shot.

Not in poverty spec, you won’t. You might get the powerful version with a manual though.

So...Where’s the wagon?

Looks like a manual.

It’s saloons that are looking more like hatchbacks. Hatches haven’t really changed much.

Brands isn’t an easy circuit, but spinning at Druids is an achievement.

Boo hoo hoo. Maybe if the BRDC put money into UK motorsport rather than their back pockets I’d have some sympathy for them.

Looks a lot like George Michael there.

This all sounds interesting, but customers just want ‘SUVs’ made of jelly that have touchscreens and bloopy noises. I doubt we’ll get anything like the 4th gen Accord again.

But neither of those include that Lithuanian drifting a diesel Avensis.

Yeah, The Benz A is a nasty little thing. The star on the steering wheel is the only thing that doesn’t feel like its about to fall off.

Because you don’t normally give up much (if any) cargo area. What you lose in height, you gain in length. Rear overhangs on wagons are usually a bit longer.

You forgot to mention that pretty much all the UK’s Hydrogen stations are in that there london town.

It’s Qatar. You can tell by the number plates.

You can thank the incompetence of the successive UK’s Labour governments for the gutting of the military.