22:11 and only the second page... for the second week running?
Aaaaaaaaaaaanyway. Those of us who'd been paying attention to the wireless in midweek had already been well alerted of Jezza's voice-removal... although I'd somehow forgotten and thought "wait a minute, isn't that Hamster doing the 'on tonight's show' announcement?" before realising why that was. And well was the curly-headed thug mocked for it. And the Heat Weird Crush (though, curiously, no mention from the other two of their previous victories).
So, how many of you said the Gumpert Apollo was ugly? Hardly. It's a Kristin Scott Apollo in comparison to the Veritas. Which Jezza forgot to lambast for having the same name as Kilroy's former political vanity project. As for a Caterham you'd want to be seen in: they had one once, sort of. However, in the 13 years since it was launched, I have not seen a single Caterham 21 on the roads. Did they sell any?
Ford. Pushed the boat out with the MkI Focus in 1998. Lost the plot with its dreary replacement in 2004. Regained the plot with the latest Fiesta. I've seen one in the metal and had to look twice at it. I'm just hoping they make an ST, or an RS, or (better still) call it an XR2i.
Communist cars:
so it didn't come out quite how I'd imagined, but that they featured these knackered old Stalinist rustbuckets at all is some small victory. Cue grumblings from vikirad and the rest of the Romanians that they didn't bother to wheel out an old Dacia, despite all the recent Sandero jokes. Remember also that the Zaporozhets (which Jezza couldn't pronounce) was so bad that Soviets mocked Zaporozhets owners for having a Zaporozhets in the same way that we mocked those who drove
any eastern car. As for the Lada handling like a tank... I would say "ask my mum", except she's dead. She had a Lada 1300 - that's the predecessor to the Riva - after her almost-as-communist Mini Clubman burnt itself to death. I think she was pregnant with my brother at the time, which may have had something to do with him dropping into the world three weeks early.
Seeing the preview in 12x01, with a clip of the Marina vs. Lada battle, I'd thought that "The Stig's Communist Cousin" would have been tied into it. Now, I know that's all to do with the hour-long Vietnam special, which (I believe) is coming up next week...
...and was expertly predicted as an idea for series 11. Unfortunately, I can't claim that one for myself.
some asian special through vietnam, myanmar laos or something like that.
Bullseye.