Meet SWA’s new pool car - the ex-press express! Congrats to @BahnstormerTom for guessing it right away, and @SKODAUK_Media for leaving it tantalisingly parked just outside the window during our last meeting at Blakelands! A manual vRS estate. In Royal Green. Perfect!

Third clue to the new SWA pool car being collected today: it’s a manual. So that’s a green estate car with a manual gearbox. Any more guesses?

Some interesting replies already. I’ll announce the winner(s) at the end. Second clue: it’s an estate.

This time tomorrow, we’ll be picking up Samuelson Wylie’s new pool car. And I have to admit that I’m rather stupidly excited about it. Anyone fancy a guessing game? The first clue is: it’s green.

Oh drat …

I suspect no-one has suggested this as a four-car garage before, but actually …

Now this was a good gig …

If anyone is in touch with the pilot doing circuits in a #spitfire out of I guess @BlackpoolAir this afternoon and could ask them to do their 180 degree turn a little to the west and a little lower please, I would appreciate it. Popping smoke (OK, lighting a bonfire) now …

The whole @SamuelsonWylie team, most of all Anna, has fallen in love with a stray on the edge of the desert in Morocco. Call out to the Twitter hive-mind: does anyone know what ‘Sahara’ needs in terms of jabs and quarantine so we can go back and get her? #BringSaharaHome

I love meetings where the Head of Comms calls a halt half way through and takes you out into the car park to show you a fast estate that looks as good as this. And it’s manual too. Yay or nay?

Bloody hell … There’s some pretty heroic stuff going on in Iceland this morning in order to save the earthmoving equipment they need to build ramparts to divert the flow of lava from today’s eruption.

It’s New Year’s Eve, so it’s time to wish everyone on here from Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Austria, Switzerland and as I’ve just learnt, South Africa, a very Happy Dinner for One night on behalf of my great uncle, Lauri Wylie, who wrote it! newsroom.porsche.com/en/2019…

I was told that two of these were built: one for the Duke of Edinburgh and one for Rocco Forte. This is the latter, still in its original hands and being used for its original purpose. The coolest car I’ve ridden in throughout 2023 might be the last.

This is almost as bad as my ability to speak German, which has gone from bath to sausage.

Easy - the fifth one that is faster and cheaper than them all - the TVR Cerbera!