VW Amarok: car review | Martin Love
by Martin Love from Technology | The Guardian on (#2T8RX)
If you are a farmer, a pick-up makes a lot of sense. If you're not, it's little better than a bull in a china shop
Price: 31,506
Top speed: 119mph
0-62mph: 8 seconds
MPG: 36.2
Towing capacity: 3,100kg
CO2: 203g/km
So, this is where it happened. Jeremy Clarkson slugged his producer and effectively killed off Top Gear MkI. I'm at the genteel Simonstone Hall in Wensleydale and before JC's fisticuffs the closest guests came to a spat was a spilt G&T or maybe a run on the Bombay mix. I ask the waiter if they get TG pilgrims. He says: "Our guests are often curious - and it certainly hasn't been bad for business." They should put up a blue plaque. He laughs and says: "Or hang up a pair of blue jeans to mark the spot."
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