On a recent episode of Top Gear Jeremy Clarkson commented on something I have said a million times before to unlucky passengers who happen to be sat next to me whilst I drive and that is…

If you have a crappy car it generally means you are a crappy driver. 

Let me explain: Generally (and this is obviously a big generalisation) people who choose to drive a crappy car will be crappy drivers because they obviously have no interest in cars thus they will have no interest in driving. 

This works at every level regardless to how much money you have to spend on a car. At every money level there are certain classes of cars and in each class there are good cars and crappy cars. Even if you only have a few hundred pounds to spend you can pick between good cars and crap cars… just like you can with anything else in the world.

A lot of people treat cars as simply an A to B transport device, something to get you from here to there. I know quite a few people who treat their cars in this way and that is fine. It's also no coincidence that the people who treat their cars in this way also have some of the dirtiest and mucky cars I have ever seen, usually covered in dents, scratches and the remains of some poor old woman they backed into several years ago.

Don’t believe me? Think it's just me being daft? Well next time your stuck behind someone going really slow holding up the traffic or you see someone who has managed to flip their car over in car park or something equally as astonishing look at type of car… its probably a Rover or a Micra. 

Oh and don’t get my started on those poor individuals who choose not to drive… why anyone would choose to make their life hard work and not try and improve the quality of their life beats me. Perhaps they like public transport?

I found an interesting statistic on the internet the other day: "85% of all drivers think they are above average, and young drivers, especially males, consistently over-estimate their own ability."

Needless to say I'm a good above average driver. :)