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I know what he would say: "[Fiona Bruce] is currently third from last in the 'star in a reasonably priced car' league table, and even then she managed to burn out the clutch halfway around one of the laps and had to walk the rest of the circuit." So how can I be qualified to test any car, let alone a Ferrari 430 Scuderia, which costs more than many people's houses, is billed as a race-bred beast best suited for a day at the track and has an engine so loud that when I first switched it on I jumped out of my skin and my children started to cry?
What's it like to drive? My daughter Mia, 7, had been particularly well behaved, so as a reward I said I would take her for a first drive and suggested we go for a blast up the M1. She didn't want to go up the M1. She wanted to go to Sainsbury's. "No, come on, darling," I said, "let's go for a fast drive on the motorway", and she burst into tears. We went to Sainsbury's.
What about the commute? I took it to the location where I was filming last week and thought: "I'm going to work -- let's put the radio on." It's a pretty basic radio anyway but you wouldn't know from listening to it because you can't hear it above the roar of the engine. In fact everything about the interior is pretty basic.