I firmly believe that James May's humor is one of the main reasons top gear is such a success. Here's a shining example of that humor.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/columnists/jamesmay/7881077/Rubber-cars-are-th...
Rubber cars are the future Think how much more fun it would be if there was a pleasing 'boing' and not a crunch when we crashed.By James May Published: 11:20AM BST 09 Jul 2010
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Recently, there have been a few minor accidents in the May household's Fiat Panda, the responsibility of one who is in every other respect spotless and makes excellent baked fish dishes, of which I have been fulsomely reminded. Nevertheless, she's crashed the car.
The Panda has small rubber inserts at its corners, a damning acknowledgement that it will be crashed at some point and that painting the so-called "bumpers" the same as the bodywork was ludicrously optimistic.
These would be great if they happened to line up precisely with similar rubber inserts in the rear bumper of, say, my neighbour's Audi. But they didn't. It follows that if the whole front and rear of both cars was made from soft deformable rubber, I'd be slightly better off. But why stop there? Why not make the whole body out of rubber?
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How much easier life would be if cars simply sprang back to shape afterwards, preferably with a comic "boing" noise. Who thought cars that deform only once, and permanently, was a good idea? It would be like having buttocks that remain flattened after you've sat on a chair. You know I'm talking sense here.
Now that was uk/Euro variants, mind.
