Those cars I could stand to see given the Clarkson treatment include:
(1) Austin Montego
I now withdraw this. I've just watched the second series of
Brainiac and seen a Montego well and truly torched by "Tina Turner and her Bunsen Burner" - almost Clarkson-style. It involved lots of petrol and fuse wire. Although if it'd been with an oxygen/acetylene mixture that blasted a caravan to smithereens it'd have been even more satisfying.
Admonishment for Tina for detonating a MkII Golf, though. It might have been a scrapper, but it was if not a GTI then the model immediately below it...
Other cars destroyed include a
Talbot Arizona Peugeot 309, Volvo 740 estate, Toyota Corolla (1985 3-door job with pop-up headlights...), and Nissan
Sunny Drizzle (the exact model that Hamster roasted in an earlier TG
and the one flung from a trebuchet in one of Jezza's early videos).
Let's not stop at one of these. They are an abomination and must be rounded up and wiped out en masse. The Micra is my own personal bugaboo, and I'm well aware that my hatred of them goes way beyond rational, though I think it might have something to do with my first car being its predecessor, the Datsun Cherry, which I hated very much indeed.
That's the second time I've seen this size comparison. An early advert for the Austin Metro had a Cherry as one of its (alleged) rivals, but it always looked bigger than anything in that class. And the Cherry Europe, that also formed the base for the hateful Alfa Romeo Arna, was Escort-sized or possibly bigger.
How old was your Cherry?
Sadly,
Monsieur Mangetout appears to have passed away last year
Sacre Bleu!
He will be the last of his kind. Nobody will ever be allowed to do this again because the Health & Safetly wombles will intervene. Yes, it's a crazy thing to do, but if Monsieur Mangetout can reach 57 years old...
