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Authors: James May

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Car Magazine

'I've never felt such a spanner' (July 1997); 'If he knows, he's not saying anything' (August 1996); 'Police car, lights, action' (May 1998); 'Don't forget your toolkit' (June 1995); 'The Vauxhall Vectra, a representative view' (August 1995); 'The Motown Story' (January 1998).

Top Gear

'How great cars come to be abandoned in old barns' (September 2006); 'Some observations on rear-end handling' (January 2005); 'These modern supercars are all bloody rubbish you know' (December 2005); 'Brown's green tax – a bit of a grey area' (March 2005); 'It's a car, Jimmy, but not as we know it' (April 2006); 'How the peace and quiet of England was ruined by the noise of people complaining' (June 2006); 'Jeremy Clarkson ruined my dream car' (August
2006); 'Is it a car? Is it a bike? No. And no.' (March 2000); 'A clot on the landscape' (April 2001); 'I'm just going to Iceland. I may be some time.' (December 2001); 'Harley-Davidson, a hanging offence' (October 2001); 'The Smart car. Not after we'd finished with it.' (July 2002); 'Charles Darwin may be onto something' (March 2005); 'Achtung! Bentley!' (September 1999).

Daily Telegraph

'This is personal' (March 2006); 'Poetry on motion' (April 2004); 'The best driving song in the world ever' (May 2005); 'This Jaguar looks a bit half-baked to me' (June 2005); 'My cup runneth over and into the centre console' (January 2004); 'Track days, or the futility of going nowhere' (October 2005); 'Be afraid. Be very afraid. But only of the size of the bill.' (October 2005); 'The technical revolution in the toyshop' (November 2005); 'The folly of trying to save fuel' (November 2005); 'Any colour you like, as long as it's available from Dulux' (November 2005); 'Breaking down is not so hard to do' (November 2005); 'The Range Rover of outstanding natural beauty' (December 2005); 'Please keep off the mud' (December 2005); 'How to deal with van drivers' (December 2005); 'Naked motorcycle porn showing now' (January 2006); 'Pious Porsche peddles pathetic pedal-powered product' (January 2006); 'Lamborghinis are great. You should have one.' (February 2006); 'The future of in-car entertainment' (February 2006); 'Porsche outperforms desktop printer shock' (March 2006); 'In case you're reading this on the bog, here are some equations of motion' (May 2006); 'Men, rise up and embrace the wheelbrace'
(May 2006); 'Classic cars – you have been warned' (May 2006); 'I'm gay, but not that gay' (June 2006); 'The building blocks of the car of the future' (June 2006); 'Only the French would build a car designed to break down' (June 2006); 'Britain's surface industry fails to deliver' (July 2006).

Conde Nast Traveller

'A cheap holiday in someone else's camper van misery'
(August 2002).

INDEX

AA

abandoned cars

ABS

'achievement motive'

aeroplanes

Air Transport Auxiliary

Airfix 1/72nd scale Heinkel

Airport Shopping Dare

alcohol

Alfa Spider

Arnott, Robbie Paul

Aston Martin

Audi

TT

Austin

Healy 3000

Seven

Autocar

Barrow, Clyde

Barthol, Oliver E

Battle of Britain

BBC

Belloc, Hilaire

Bentley

Arnage T

Continental

T2

Bentley, WO

Bernoulli, Daniel

bicycle

Porsche

Biela, Frank

Bilbo's Design

Bintcliffe, John

BMW

CI

5-series

M6

7-series

V8

Brady, James

breakdowns

Brief History of the Royal Flying Corps
(Barker)

Bristol F.2b Fighter

Brompton

Brown, Gordon

Bryson, Bill

BTCC

B24 Liberator

Burns, Holly

Cadillac

camper vans

Campion, Thomas

Car Magazine

carbon emissions

cars

abandoned

attempts to combine virtues of motorcycle and

breakdowns

classic

colour of

crime

design

development of

entertainment in

niche models

restoration of

seats,

sports

supercars

Castle Combe

Celeste Motor Caravan

Cessna

Chevrolet

Camaro

Silverado

Chrysler

Chrysler, Walter

Chung, Wang

Citroën

C2 Stop&Start

C4 VTS

C6

DS

Saxo

vibrating seat

Clarkson, Jeremy

Classic Nouveau Registrations

Cobo Center, Detroit

coffee

Commando War Stories in Pictures

complaints about noise

congestion charging

countryside, anti-car sentiment in

Coward, Mike

crash test dummies

'creative play'

crime, car

cruise control

cup holders, in-car

Daewoo 95MPV

Daily Telegraph

'Dance Hall Days' (Wang Chung)

dashboard spot-the-difference game

Datsun 120Y

Davies, Maurice

de la Mothe, Antoine

Debois, Lensman

Dennis, John

Detroit

Dickens, Charles

Dodge

Donington Park

Dornier 217

Drivesafe

Ducati Monster

Durant, William

DVLA

Earl, Harley

Electric Light Orchestra

engines, modern

see also under individual car

entertainment, in-car

environment

European Experimental Vehicles Committee

European Union

Euro-Sid

Exford White Horse Inn

Exmoor

4 x 4s

'Fair If You Expect Admiring' (Campion)

Ferrari

F360

F430

Lamborghini, rivalry with

Lego Technic

merchandise

Fiat

Cinquecento

Panda

Tipo

Focke-Wulf

Ford

Cortina

Focus

GT

Highland Park factory

Laguna

Model T

Mondeo

Museum

V8

Xantia

Ford, Edsel

Ford, Henry

Formula One

Frangart, Gerard

Frost, Bruce

fuel, folly of saving

Fusker

Gardner, Peter

General Motors

Gent, P

Germany

global warming

Gordon, Hanya

Great Sports Car Debate

Hackenberg, Dr Ulrich

Hammond, Richard

attitude to flying

breakdowns

in-car games

911, buys

Zonda, drives

Harley, Isaac

Harley, Jobe

Harley, William

Harley-Davidson

Dyna Super Glide

Screamin' Eagle
exhaust

Harper, PC Gordon

Hawker

Harrier

Hurricane

Hawking, Professor Stephen

headlights, swivelling

head-up displays

Heinkel

Highways Agency, The

holidays

Honda

Civic

S2000

'Honky Tonk Women' (Rolling Stones)

Hornby, Frank

Hourston, Ian

Hughes, Ted

Iceland

in-car air-vent virtual fountain game

Institute of Advanced Motorists

Jaguar

bio-fuelled

XJ

XJ-S convertible

X-Type, 'Sports Collection' body styling package

James, PD

Jensen Interceptor

joyriders

Junkers

Kennedy, Charles

Khoury, Salim

Kia

Kidd, Hamish

King, Charles B

Lake Como

Lamborghini

Countach

Diablo

Gallardo Spider

Muricielago

Uracco

Lamborghini, Feruccio

Land Rover

Defender

Discovery

lane-sensing system

Le Mans

Lego

Leland, Henry

'Let There Be Rock' (AC/DC)

letters

Lexus GS430

Lidmila, Alan

Littleport Society

longest finger in the world game

Lotus Espirit

Malcolmson, PC

Marques, Raphaël

Marshall, Anthony

Martin, Alex

Maserati

Bora

Mazda MX-5

Meccano

mechanics

Melling, Frank

Mercedes-Benz

at Motor shows

massage seat

sales 2005

Scarftronic neck-warmer

SLK

Merlin

Messerschmitt

MG

Midget

Microcar

Milligan, Spike

Mini

modularity

motorcycles

attempts to combine virtues of car and

Compulsory Basic Training

Harley Davidson

shows

Morris Eight

Morrison, PC Kyle

Moto Guzzi

Motor Shows

'Mr Blue Sky' (ELO)

music, driving

Newton, Richard

Northern Rail

number plates, personalised

Numeric Blue

Olds

Olds, Ransom E

Pagani Zonda

parking

parts, interchangeability of

Peers, Mike

Pendelino trains

people-carriers

Peugeot

platform sharing

poke yoke

Porsche

bicycle

Boxster

Possil Park, Glasgow

power steering

Prometheus Project

Pryde, PC Andy

public relations

purpleparking

Raleigh

rambling

Range Rover

Renaissance Center, Detroit

Renault

restoration of cars

Richardson, Bill

road

noise

rage

resurfacing

workers

Roberts, Adrian

Rolling Stones

Rolls-Royce

Rover

Saab

Saner, Reg

satnav

Savile, Jimmy

Schumacher, Michael

scooters

Setright, LJK

sheds

Short Stirling

Skogar Folk Museum

Sloan, Alfred P

Smart

Smith, Mary

Smith, Paul

Snook, Phil

songs, driving

Spitfire

sports cars

Stanley knife

Stewart, Rod

Stewart, Tom

Strathclyde

Subaru Impreza Turbo

supercars, modern

Sylvester, William

tachometer

take five game

tax, green car

tea

Tebbit, Norman

Telegraph Motoring

That's Life

that's your car game

theft of cars

toolkit

Top Gear

driving song survey

garage

staff cars

studio noise

Toyota Prius

toys, progress in car development anticipated by design of

track days

traction control

trains

Transit Van

Transport Research Laboratory (TRL)

Tri-ang Railways

Triumph TR6

Tulliallen Police College

UK motor industry, sales figures 2005

Union of Automobile Workers of America

Vauxhall

Astra

Cavalier

Corsa

Omega

Primera

Vectra

Virgin Trains

Volkswagen

Beetle

Caravelle

Golf

GTI

Passat

Volvo

T5

244

XC-90

Waller, Steve

Wallis, Barnes

Waterhouse, Matthew

Watt, James

Williams, Frank

women and motoring

World War II

Yamaha MT01

Yeats, WB

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