People have concerns that they’re putting their full faith (and safety) into a technology that could fail at any time. What happens if it does?

You say this:

I propose a new guideline for wagonness - the rear overhang must be at least as long as the front, otherwise it’s just a hatchback.

To be honest, I’ve never had a problem driving on the wrong side of the road or the wrong side of the car in foreign parts.

It used to, back in the day.

I only spent £1,000 on options! Do I win?

I listen to Cox when I know she’s on breakfast. I never listen to Evans or Steve Wright.

People in Europe would buy more wagons if they were actually advertised.

According to The Sun’s anonymous BBC staffers

Sara Cox.

It also caught fire. See page 4 of the .pdf.

In case you were wondering, yes, it’s a Fiat Seicento, and yes, it’s a deathtrap:

‘clean surface’ ‘touchscreen’

Can’t really compare the two eras. Rallies were longer in those days, and cars were less reliable.

Roll cages are pretty great

Do these vehicles not have handbrakes?

£5k will get you a 1994 one:

Other horrendously unreliable vehicles are available.

I actually don’t hate that design. Fix the windows, make them parallel with the roof. Fix the headlights, redesign the whole front end really. I think that would make a sort of half decent European SportWagon thing. Even as it stands, it’s better than the Benz brake things.

That’s not Silverstone. The car park isn’t flooded.