Fans of bonkers motoring — myself included, it has to be said — like it hot. The really blistering motors truly are those which get the adrenaline flowing simply by looking at them — the really good stuff follows when you get to crank them up.

THE joys attached to this job are many and varied: driving nice new cars every week, the occasional opportunity to travel to faraway places to drive them and the sheer thrill of being allowed to drive things which you know few, if any, of your contemporaries will