True. And yes, I was equating being a successful, even the most successful, European motoring show to an ineffectual nothing. That’s not to say I don’t like, or haven’t liked, European motoring shows but rather to highlight the hugely regional nature of motoring shows pre, as you say, about season 10 of the new and…

I honestly don’t know! That said, I try to bring it up every time Jalopnik mistakenly calls this “Chris Evans’ Top Gear” but I’m pretty alone in that.

Top Gear came outta nowhere. It started as an ineffectual nothing of a motoring show, grew up a bit, stumbled, found a format and eventually exploded like a mega bomb.

Anyone who knew would have had lower expectations, but we’d just come from a ‘77 VW bus with a four speed and I was 16. I imagined that literally anything would have been better (note; I’ve since grown up and developed an abiding passion for Type 2's despite my loathing the ‘toaster/hippy’ van as a young lad) and…

Videos like this are the kind that lead me to asking the hard questions like, “Can I fap to this at work?”

“How’d you do that?”

When yaw control means something else entirely.

“Look out, I’m Mergestang here!” - the driver, probably.

Getting in good with the cabbies was a smart play.

Dad nearly scared the S outta that kid.

I’d kill someone for that bike meanwhile I want to kill someone over that car!

How do you release two homage vehicles so close to one another yet manage to get one so wrong and one so right?

Light it on fire.

The stories keep coming out and with each successive leaked bit about the new show I end thinking the same thought over and over again.

That cop ‘got a call’ at that very moment, I promise you.

Why? WHY?!

“I barely made it.” - that bear, probably

Why am I so alone?!

My biggest car phobia? Car forums and blogs.

Only if “near luxury” is the new euphemism for “ostensibly affordable” and that’s why Hyundai is aimed squarely at the aforementioned brands. There is little point in making a luxury-performance car with the Hyundai badge (even if it’s called a Genesis) as we’ve seen already, they don’t sell well in foreign markets…