Welcome to the only compendium of car facts you’ll ever need, assuming you don’t need too many car facts.
During the making of The Grand Tour television programme we’re forever being asked the same questions. ‘How was Daihatsu established?’ ‘What killed the founder of MG?’ ‘Is there a name for the massive junction near Birmingham where the M40 and M42 motorways meet?’ And, as always, we say, ‘Shut up, fictional question-asking person we’ve just invented for rhetorical purposes. It’ll all be in the book of car facts we’re going to compile.’
And now, at last, the answers to these and many, many other motoring-related questions have been lovingly assembled into what we can only call an actual encyclopaedia of the car, although one of those encyclopaedias where there might be some things that the authors have forgotten and bits of it are made up and James got bogged down in certain facts even though we asked him not to.
If this sounds like the kind of encyclopaedia you need, then welcome, friend, welcome. Otherwise, it’s too late. You were given this as a present and to return it would look rude. So there.