Top Gear

I enjoyed tonight’s repeat of Top Gear on BBC2. It is a clever, witty, laddish masterpiece of television which deserves its world-wide success.

Then I took my dogs on a last walk on the banks of the canal at about 10pm.

From the mill car park on the other side of the canal came the sound of idiots doing handbrake turns and over revving engines. Whether they were their own or stolen cars, I don’t know but it was an ugly, vicious sound.

I have only ever done one power slide - in a rather expensive Jaguar during a launch in Spain. And when I was invited to do the “elk test” to try the stability of the then new Volvo XC90 in Switzerland, I found it almost impossible to swerve violently enough to unsettle the big 4X4.

And yet these mindless fools were obviously throwing their cars around like Jeremy Clarkason and the gang on Top Gear.

Wonder if they had been watching?

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