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To this day, my 1991 VW Golf 2 GTI 8V is still my favourite car I have owned that I bought second hand from a mate of mine when he emigrated to OZ. It was a brilliant basic drivers car that you could have fun with without having to do 200 km/h to get the best out of it and I have very fond memories of it too as I was I youngster when I bought it and partied everywhere with it :D

You gotta drive 1000 miles in two days and there are no speed limits to worry about. What would you choose from the two options of a comfortable cruiser like a Bentley GT Continental or a crazy assed hyper car like a Pagani Zonda?

Being 6 ft 5 an Zonda possibly wouldn't be the best choice. I would go for a GT car, most likely a DB9 or a Ferrari 599.

Are Porsche 911s (and the million different derivatives) just VW Beetles with an ego problem

No, they are probably the finest sports cars ever made. Ultra reliable, fast(ish), understated...perfect!

Is the VW Golf really the best hot hatch in your eyes, or as I think, is the Golf overrated against the likes of the fine Focus ST, Opel OPC, Megane RS etc?

I like the mark 1 golf but the mark 5 is just a bit blah. I would rather have a Focus, but in reality I personally think all so called 'hot hatches' are a bit blah, although Top Gear tested a Vauxhall. something or other a couple of years back that made me laugh, by the way it simply couldn't go round any corners at all.

Power or handling?

Power is nothing without handling and handling is pointless without some power. What you want is a combination of both. But, if you could only pick one, handling is the way to go. That's why I loved my WRX STI so much, it had a bit of both :D

You prefer American muscle cars from the 60's - 80's or European exotic cars from the same period?

I hate muscle-head cars, they are usually incredibly ugly, uncomfortable, soil themselves when they see a corner etc, I would rather have to spend the rest of my life doing a handstand in sour milk than own one of those things!......... So that would be a decent car from the same era from Europe, something elegant but powerful like a Facel Vega for example. (Geez I hope I didn't over-react to the whole muscle car thing :crazy: )


Does the colour of a car have an effect on it's and your personality?

The car, yes. I mean, nothing beats a bright yellow Lamborghini or a red Ferrari now does it? As for people, I don't think so, it's just a colour. I think the actual car itself does more to effect our personalities.

Maybach or Rolls Royce?

Rolls. Maybach was a half-hearted, poorly concieved and executed business venture for Daimler. You can now buy a Maybach for a bag of washers.


Monaco F1 or Le Mans 24 hour?

Hard question to answer.....not. The Monaco Gp where 22 of the most powerful and technologically advanced racing cars in the world slowly follow each other round and round a gambling resort, with no chance of a race ever breaking out? I would choose Lemans every time, cars actually race each other, ....no..... honestly they do.....really, I'm not kidding.

If you could add one new skill to your skill-set, what would it be?

Psychic / predicting the future. So that when I see in the future that the wife is going to give me horns for something, I make sure I'm not around :p: :D

What's your favourite place in the world?