The more nerdy car-spotters among you may be dismayed to know that the most interesting thing about a car is not its horsepower nor the cubic capacity of its boot.
It’s not the top speed either. Nor is it the price or the colour.
After years of professionally writing about cars I’ve discovered that the most interesting thing about cars is none of those dry specifications. It’s their drivers.
For example, while enthusiasts drooled about the Ultimate Aero supercar setting a new world production car speed record of 256mph (412kph) in 2006—I was more excited that the driver was an unheard of 71-year-old pensioner roped in as a test pilot.
And when motoring historians carefully record the date of the world’s first parking meter in Oklahoma in 1935, I’d rather hear about the first driver arrested for non-payment shortly after it was installed… it
