Hahahaha... today, thanks to the awesome Dave, I have been able to prove my mother wrong. She says she hates Top Gear because of Clarkson (but she's always laughing her head off if I'm in the lounge watching TG while she's in there) and that it's an utterly useless program because it's all about stupidly expensive cars.
Well, the Hamster proved her wrong today! Was watching a random episode on Dave and Richard sat in a VW Golf while they shot 800,000 volts of lighting through it. And the car worked when it stopped! If I hear correctly the reason why he didn't fry is to do with the cage VWs use which means that if we happen to be stuck in a thunderstorm in the car we're perfectly safe!
So there! Not only do we have a green car (BlueMotion Polo - we got it waaaaaaaay before Top Gear decided to feature one. Actually we were the first people in our county to have one.

) but it will survive being hit by lightening and will still work perfectly!
So there. Top Gear is useful! We now know we can sit perfectly safe in the car during a thunderstorm.
And then it switched to them racing cars on a beach.

(Which, I might add, is something both of us absolutely hate. In Britain cars are meant for driving on roads or designated tracks. Those have already destroyed enough of the landscape. Driving on beaches (and off-road) should be banned. People don't seem to realise just how damaging it is.

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