I had been waiting to get my hands on this little gem ever since I saw the pictures and rave reviews in the national press. Now, at last, Thatchams of Cromer have taken delivery of a demonstration model, and last week I was privileged to be among the first twenty five lucky souls to take the wheel.

I was granted a full day with W441 PRT, which was waiting for me outside the showroom at 8:30am. Sales manager Tom Hegarty had made sure that the car was brimmed with petrol Ð full marks Tom!

Exiled regional motoring correspondent Barry Betterware shares his views on the new Toyota Vulgario

I don't want this to turn into another one of those "oh my god, absolutely everything's awful and we're all surrounded by it with no hope of escape, and even if it wasn't all completely awful and some of it was marginally tolerable then we'd still all be surrounded by it and that's just awful enough on its own" article. Because there are plenty of those in circulation already.

Phil Hayes rails against irony. Bit hypocritical probably

Because I commute, because my job takes me all over the country and because I don't have a car I spend a lot of time on trains. I spend almost as much time waiting at stations. This experience has led me to the inevitable conclusion that Milton Keynes Central is the most evil place on earth.

Alexandra Taylor employs irony against rails

CREAM OF STRONSCIOUSNESS

I'm up, I'm down, I'm up, I'm down. But what I want to be is somewhere in the middle? But what is the middle? Is it mean, median or mode? You tell me, Mr Maths.

Tim Carver wrote this, but even his advice is that you shouldn't bother reading it