Morgans are for, I dunno, poncing around with a wicker basket on the back pretending to be Toad of Toad Hall or Bergerac or some shit?

TOMORROW.

Caterham's are shit and driven by wankers.

I'm hopelessly shit at maths, but I think the formula isn't right. You're dividing the cost of the car by the number of seconds to get round the lap... which is fair enough for a 'cost per second' value... but this means the longer a car takes to get round the track, the better value it is. By that token, a skateboard must represent unbeatable value when it comes to wheeled transportation.

A Caterham appears to be a very expensive kit car that someone else has built for you.

You can pick up F355s for around the £25K-£30K mark (although admittedly towards the lower end of that it's probably a lemon).

I'd rather have the 355 than the 348.

Although the reason F355s are so cheap is, according to owners, because of all the stupid bodykits that get put on SW20 MR2s and the like.

New Bang For Your Buck list!

I saw an Aston DB9 yesterday parked up in Bicester Village (although I doubt that's an especially unusual spot around there). It had extra vents on the bonnet though, which confused me. I'm fairly sure it wasn't a DBS.

Ooh, could've been a V12 Vantage? Pure filth.

Tommorow.

I saw an Aston DB9 yesterday parked up in Bicester Village (although I doubt that's an especially unusual spot around there).

cars form 'road trains' on motorways.
sounds weird and interesting and scary.

You messed up your line!

Australian relatives of the wife of one of my mates have recently come over here from Oz to buy an Aston Martin DB7 GT and ship it back over there. I've not actually been in it, but I've seen the car and it looks lovely... but I'm sure they paid something crazy like £50k for it. Who in their right mind would spend that much on a DB7 when they could get a DB9 for similar cash? Or is there something super-spanky about the GT model that I'm not aware of?

CONVOY!

cars form 'road trains' on motorways.
sounds weird and interesting and scary.

One of the ones I saw was a Vantage. Sounded nice when it came past us five minutes later. Not as nice as the Stingray, though.

I love Martinis.

Sounds shit. Driving is fun, sitting in a car is not fun.

Must admit that I don't know what difference a 'GT' is though - could be mega rare or something? That's probably one for Kalmar or Grim... to enlighten us on.

Sounds shit. Driving is fun, sitting in a car is not fun.

What happens though if the driver has fallen asleep or is busy masturbating when the convoy gets to the end of the motorway?

cars form 'road trains' on motorways.
sounds weird and interesting and scary.

It's a V12 with more horses, and a slightly different front end (the grill is different, I think). Different wheels, too.

That sounds horrible to me; no doubt 'automatic driving' will come, though - much of the tech already exists. That'll be the day I cease to be interested in cars, which will be nothing more than passenger carraiges.

I spent most of the time, as usual, thinking of inventing a distance-sensing cruise control that does it for you.

Really? I see very little overlap between "fun driving" and "motorway driving".

Like the one in my Mondeo? Which was nabbed from Land Rover?