I think it was Steve Martin's character in LA Story who said, "I could never be a woman, 'cause I'd just stay home and play with my breasts all day."

But if the gorgeous female minority here at Top Gear sat playing with our boobies all day, then not much work would get done. So, what does it mean in the Top Gear office if you have a pair of tits?

Well, it means you work harder for a start, because you don't have the attention span of a mosquito. It means you look better, dress better and smell better. And speaking of smell, you are not crippled by the hilarity of breaking wind, nor do you feel the need to compare or measure decibel, texture or vintage.

And, of course, sometimes you get the girlie jobs. So, just by virtue of having breasts, I get sent on the launch of the new Peugeot 207 coupe-cabriolet, the replacement for the cult Pug 206 CC.

Not that I'm complaining - it makes sense. Eighty-eight per cent of buyers of the 206 CC were women, who loved it for its budget-priced glamour and accessible luxury.

The 206 CC was the original affordable coupe-cabriolet when launched in the UK in 2001, and became the best-selling small, folding hard-top (360,000 units produced), changing the UK convertible market forever.

Although it spawned a host of rivals - Nissan Micra C+C, Mitsubishi Colt CZC, Daihatsu Copen, Vauxhall Tigra - it remains the world's best-selling small CC.

I would say my friend Natasha is a fairly typical customer - extrovert, single and sexy, and a total poseur. When she is not running over London's Albert Bridge naked except for her trainers (she lost a bet we had), she loves her little black Pug CC and rocks around town, roof down, tunes pumping, like a ghetto princess wearing ridiculous sunglasses with lenses the size of TV sets.

The only thing she doesn't like about it is the lardy arse, a problem with these little coupe-cabrios. Although I can't identify with this as I have buns of steel, I know it's every woman's worst nightmare - a huge, lumpy arse is not hot whatever it's on.

But the 207 CC, which is built off the same platform as the Citroen C3 Pluriel, has got a booty rappers could rhyme about. So much purer, lighter and more stylish.

In fact, the 207 CC really is a pretty car. Sure, it's more aggressive-looking from the front than the outgoing model, mainly because it's got the same James Bond 'Jaws'-like grinning grille and slanty eyes as the 207 hatch on which it is based. It's also got similar dimensions, but has been lowered by 75mm to make it look sportier.

However, the 207 CC is still a feminine car with curves in all the right places. And it is feminine in a suspenders-and-silk-stockings kind of way, rather than the white-ankle-socks-and-ribboned-shoes way of the Micra C+C.

Now this might be a childish thing to admit to, but I still take great delight in watching the mechanical ballet that is a hard-top folding itself away.

The 207 CC's roof, which was designed in-house by Peugeot and will be built at the PSA factory in Madrid, takes 20 seconds to fold away. And you don't have to break your fingernails off any more by fiddling about with manual release catches.

Although there's masses of room in the boot with the roof up (449 litres), with the roof down there's just 187 litres - I couldn't even fit my emotional baggage in there.