This was a question recently asked on Jalopnik. This was my contribution:
My suggestions:
1.
Get into the back seat. Ask a friend to drive. Call him Smithers for
the duration of the review. Doesn't matter what his actual name is.
Insist that he wear a waistcoat. The ideal Smithers is tall and thin and
can look askance upon everyone upto the Queen. Type up your review from
the back seat.
2. Do this while parked - the famed Clarkson tea
test. You will need: a thermos filled with hot tea, tea biscuits (which
are a wee bit like really thin cookies, but without the calories and the
sadness), someone to pour you the tea / someone you pour the tea for.
Either works. The test is to see whether a little spot of tea in the
rear seat of your plutocrat-barge will overwhelm the A/C and fog up the
windows. Remember, the gold standard is that renowned people-mover, the
VW Phaeton.
3. The third test is the long drive. Smithers will
drive you across atleast 150 miles of an Interstate of your choice. As
an aside, we should rename Interstates to FreedomRoads ('Murica!) Make
sure you carry an accurate thermometer, or maybe five. The cabin
temperature should not vary by more than 1 degree Celsius from the
target setting through the duration of the journey.
4. Is there that flap which opens the passenger front seatback and turns it into a footrest? Use it!
5.
How do people on the road treat you? This is the time to make astute
observations and pithy comments about the plebes in their econoboxes and
the deluded riches in their autobahnstormers.
Write the whole thing up. Thank me.
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