Not sure if it’s really a safety feature but Mercedes Benz’s ENORMOUS single wiper seemed like a good idea at the time.

Not now Cato!!!

Or it could be that the last ones were poorly-assembled, hideous-looking piles of indifference.

I have no interest in presenting Top Gear. I have an interest in punching Evans in the face.

What an amazing opportunity! I’d do it just to get within punching distance of that ginger twat.

Spending the equivalent of Greece’s deficit on ridiculously overpriced waxes with lots of umlauts in the name will make your car gorgeous and the paint glass-like in its smoothness.

The Pikes Peak Escudo was brilliant. If I remember correctly if you set the front downforce to minimum and rear to maximum on PS3 it would end up with a ridiculous top speed.

The irony of the first post linked in the little ‘related stories’ thing below being ‘Ten annoying things non-car people say’ is so fucking delicious, I’m not going to eat for the rest of the day.

“How hard should I brake?”

The same Chris Evans who when on Top Gear said that the Porsche 968 only ever came with a Tiptronic.

Hundreds and hundreds of MGBs were destroyed as cheap race cars in the early to mid eighties...

The Miata, like its MGB forebear will be the eternally affordable classic. They made so many of the damn things that there are always going to be lots available, from complete restoration basket case to immaculate show queen.

Bad Ferraris could perhaps be relevant to the later, somewhat asthmatic 308i, and the umpteen ruined Quattrovalvoles which still pollute the market. The original, fibreglass-bodied, dry sump 308 is a fantastic car with rally pedigree to boot as well as being quite a rare beast.

Carbon fibre steering wheel in a car fast enough to induce sweaty palms?

Everything he tries.

You think that’s drifting. How quaint.

The diesel-burning heathens are beaten!

Another Bowlby pie-in-the-sky project. Kudos to them for trying, but if everyone else is running amidships engines driving the rear wheels and electric power to the front, there must be a reason. Sometimes different is cool, I don’t think racing is one of those times.

I’ll have to take your word for that. You sound like the consummate motorsport professional. How many Le Mans have you competed in?

Considering the choices were grass or rear end of other car the ‘rookie’ (really? A fucking factory Audi driver is a ‘rookie?’) managed it pretty well.