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Q&A with Oz TG presenter Warren Brown
What's your dream car?
I've always hankered after an Aston Martin DB5 - every bloke fancies himself as James Bond. I recently asked a mate if he reckoned I'd make a good James Bond. He said I'd be more from the George Lazenby end rather than the Sean Connery, Daniel Craig category.
Mates can be staggeringly be cruel.
But lately I reckon I'd be keen to get hold of an early 70s DBS V8 - you know, the four headlight model.
A '20s supercharged Bentley would be marvellous, too, as would a GT40.
This question has opened a 44-gallon drum of worms for me...
What car do you hate most in all the world?
Don't get me started... I could run off a list of cars I hate the length of the Bayeaux Tapestry - but I'm just going to pick on one: VW Kombis.
I don't know if they're called Kombis in the UK, but you know what I mean - the Microbus, the Transporter, the campervan. Whatever.
'Which car do I hate most of all in the world? The VW Kombi. It isn't a car - it's a war crime'
It's not a car - it's a war crime.
Slow, noisy, unappealing - I don't get it. And the way VW aficionados bang on about them: the Limited Edition Werner von Braun 75-window microbus special of 1958, the Stuttgart variant of the rear number plate light.
Give us a break.
They even made a camping version in Australia called the Swagman. I'd rather stick a tiger snake down my trousers than go bush with that. Besides which, Kombi drivers are evil.
On the steepest of hills, they lurk near where two lanes merge into one and then cut you off, forcing you to change down and down as the asthmatic old Bavarian banger blows oily smoke all over you shuddering uphill at glacial pace.
And when you do overtake, there's always some bearded bloke wearing spectacles with lenses like glass paperweights hunched over the steering wheel as if that was going to make this horizontal, round - shouldered refrigerator somehow go faster.
The horror... the horror...
What will you bring to Top Gear Australia?
I'm tempted to say something here about bringing together the passion of Australian motoring with the joy and exuberance of the open road. But frankly, I think I have the ability to blow stuff up equally as well as Charlie and Steve.
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