DRIVING
The Clarkson Review: Alpine A110 S
James May is right to love this car — not that I’d ever tell him
The Sunday Times
When Renault launched the sporty little Alpine A100 five years ago, James May went off to test it for Top Gear and enjoyed the experience so much, he bought one. And as a result of that I never reviewed it for The Sunday Times.
Because what if it was good and thrilling and wondrous? I’d have had to say that James May has bought an Alpine and that I liked it. And that’s not possible. Saying to a chap “I like your new car” is the same as saying “I like your new shoes”. It’s just not done.
I once bought a new jacket from Gieves and Hawkes on London’s Savile Row and asked Dylan Jones, the editor of GQ magazine at the time,
