Is it the American version? Because we get that 3-spoke momo thing covered with Mazda plastic. No airbags too.

My Mazda has that SkyActiv gearbox thing, 6 speed auto. My sister’s Nissan has the Xtronic bullshit.

Same colourful show as the previous Top Gear.

Silly muricans... Grand Tour has the ambience of elégance, not underwhelming, you... you... silly... oh well.

Here is a clue: domestic brands that clearly rips off from others, never really takes off, unless it is useless goods such as fancy handbags, watches, sunglasses, and other vanity items. Electronics have become a commodity as well, therefore it is not surprising to see fancified smudgepiece all-screen telephone…

Handling is reserved for petrolheads to discern. There are people who describe the Hyundai crossover handling as “good”. A local Toyota brochure called a minibus handling as “sharp”. We know they are not car people. One is a Korean ultranationalist, the other is Toyota’s salaryman, and I own both cars.

Gran Turismo tutorial and Top Gear lap episodes say: “less tire squeal, tidy laps, slow but sure, are the quickest lap”

Not necessary and adds weight.

So everybody dreamt to be a firefighter or cops now? Does the number of applicants are over the top? How often do you find physically unfit firefighters and those who are reluctant to go to emergency locations? I can’t say about cops, but it seems nobody respects them.

Of course we have places to charge at home. The problem is, like my smartphone, we often forget to check if the battery is charging or not. Usually, just plug it in, connect it to the device, and that’s it. In Tesla, they do tell you if the car is receiving charge or not when you plug the cable. But if somebody trips…

Try to apply jobs using credentials like “my father is a carpenter/miller/baker/painter”. Works like charm during our fathers’ time, for reasons that you still believe in.

The whole world uses: inch for screen size, psi for tyre pressure, knots for aircraft speed, feet for altitude, inHG instead of mmHG for barometric air pressure in aviation, feet per minute for vertical speed. Not showing any signs of converting any soon.

Agreed, he will also agree with you, judging from what I read in his books.

This, Fallout game universe, and Financial analysts.

I want battery swaps, I don’t want to waste 6 hours to fully charge this stupid battery every 400 miles. There should be enough Lithium for at least 2 sets of batteries per car.

My mentor is a millionaire real estate investor guy. His father is a jobless mean drunk guy. My father is an accomplished engineer, his father, my grandfather, is a compulsive chain smoking gambler who died before I knew him. Somehow, like-father-like-son myth is fading away.

My friend is also a crazy car guy who swapped his Del Sol engine for a B18-something from Integra. He regularly sped between Eugene, Oregon highways during his time there along with some friends. Cops are surprisingly polite towards Asians, because they say, never experience an Asian street racer running away when…

Clarkson is pretty outspoken about his views, although he can sometimes symphatise, probably because of his upbringing. Chris Evans, if you ever listened to his radio show, is pretty much domineering, opinionated guy who happens to fit to the most of his English audience.

It is very hard to symphatise with posers like nerds find it hard to accept that they are suddenly cool now.

Indonesian case-in-point: Left hand steering wheel position with wrong stalks (turning signals and windshield wipers misplaced) are usually American-branded cars and typically BMW. Funny thing is, despite being known as cheap cars, all Hyundais and Kias have the right layout.