The show must go on

The show in question being Top Gear, of course, whose fate appears to be in the balance following the Richard Hammond's jet car crash.

Hopefully fears that the show will be axed will come to nothing; it's not unreasonable to postpone the show while the Hamster recovers. I don't want to lose Top Gear. Jeremy Clarkson doesn't want to lose Top Gear (or, admittedly, a job). Fifty odd thousand other people don't want to lose Top Gear. And most important, the Hamster doesn't want to lose Top Gear. And isn't his the opinion that really matters? (And it's not like he depends on it for a living either. After all, the beeb would probably replace it with a show about dogs if they did axe the Gear.)

The latest on Hammond's progress just goes to show one thing, I guess.

Speed doesn't kill.

Increasingly inaccurately named...

I'm not in any way surprised, but still, news of the new MINI makes me go: Huh?!

In particular, the bit that says:

Although visually similar to the last model (after all, if it ain't broke, don't fix it), every body panel on the new, larger MINI is different.

This must be some strange new usage of the word 'mini' I wasn't previously aware of.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go bang my head against a brick wall for a while.

National Mini Day 2006

I remember the time when the Stanford Hall show was best known for it's miserable weather. The 'Stanford Showers' were a legend. It seems global warming is a reality, at least in Leicestershire.
So, here's the Clubman Estate Register - I apologise for Yoda, show him the sun and a yard of grass and he goes into full on pose mode.



Nice car, shame about the trailer it arrived on. What a total waste of a nice car. People like you should be taken out and shot at dawn. Along with this guy:


That's just wrong on so many levels.

And finally, I'm not asking any questions about what Chris CHEAL does with our £10 entry fee.
But that is an Audi RS6 parked next to a CLK 320 in the shade at Stanford. They're what, £35k a piece maybe? Just sayin'.