I used to live up that way. A93 from Banchory is the stuff of dreams. My rented Focus didn't know what hit it. Slight caveat, Scottish road planners don't flatten bumps, if the arrow-straight road with no intersections has a 30mph limit, don't disregard it, otherwise you will find yourself airborne. Poo will come out.

Raphael, ask Chris Harris about the junkyard he visited back in his days at Autocar. It was somewhere in France and the owner had all sorts of amazing cars there, including a Miura which he cut in half to allow a tree which was growing to branch out. I've looked for the article for ages on the internet but I can't…

Why do motorbike videos all have to have idiotic music? It's almost as bad as drifting videos.

2016 will be a season filled with crap. Ratings will fall off a cliff. 2017 will see the return of Clarkson.

They're not using the devil's piss as fuel, so they can play too... :)

Long live Toyota and Porsche. Taking the battle to the four ringed diesel heathens. May their noble crusade end in the vanquishing of the devil's fuel at the most hallowed of endurance racing events, which has been sullied for too long by the sinister whispering of the turbodiesel overlord.

Do they really need to make it better? Aren't these things bought by fleets by the trainload, irrespective of actual quality?

Because I don't think it'll be anything approaching luxury, look at the Mercedes Citan van, it's a rebadged Renault Kangoo, which is utterly horrific.

Let's hope they don't follow the pattern they recently fell into with the Citan, which is simply a rebadged Renault Kangoo (which is horrific).

As much as I love Ayrton Senna, Nelson Piquet really took him to school.

Interesting that Fast & Furious is lambasted for talking down to car enthusiasts and labelling us a simpletons, but a television show based on cars which only involves (rather, used to invlove as of yesterday) scripted idiocy and a tall man falling over is hailed as the second coming of Christ.

And this fine gentleman is why when people ask me what I do for a living I don't tell them I'm in Marketing but instead I lie and tell them I produce and export Hungarian midget porn.

Came here to find rare nuggets of brilliance amongst the deluge of Top Gear circle jerks.

Yes, we all make mistakes, true. But to all and sundry defending Clarkson's actions I ask one simple question. Would you be OK with a colleague punching a loved one in your family at work?

Let me help. Complete indifference and a good dose of boredom at all this Clarkson bollocks. Let the investigation run its course and mourn the death of Top Gear when it's official.

The joy of the return of the inline six is somewhat tempered by the knowledge that all of these snails will dampen the aural delight somewhat.

Because European performance engines moved away from OHV a long time ago. I guess its about heritage, European companies have a different approach to US ones.

I say this knowing full well that I will probably be shot on sight, but to me Drifting, while entertaining, isn't racing. Competitive? Yes, but then so is figure skating. Motorsport, most definitely, but not racing.

You know what's worse? It's a Mercedes. It's a sedan. It's not diesel. It's not brown. I expect a Jalopnik fatwa to be written post haste.

I feel left out. Marginalized. Maybe even a little bit hurt. I guess no time like the present to tell the world that one of the cars I drive is an automatic and I like it.