BUG BOMB

Modifying cars is a virus. No two ways about it – exposure to modded and customised rides leads directly to an infestation of such behaviour in your own sphere of reality, regardless of whether you’ve had any interest in these shenanigans before. It’s all-pervading, deeply invasive, and totally incurable.

We needn’t see this as a negative, of course. It’s not the sort of virus which demands that you wear a mask in shops and bump elbows instead of shaking hands. No, think of it more like the positive viruses in the ‘Quarantine’ episode of Red Dwarf. (That’s a nineties reference, look it up.) The kind of thing that entangles itself within the helixes of your very DNA and works hard to make your life better. Just ask Millie Robinson – she’d never given a hoot about modifying cars before she owned this Beetle; indeed, she had it in her mind that modded cars were a bit chavvy and crap. Her first car was a VW up!