Ok, I have to admit, I’ve really gotten into the Top Gear over the last year. It started by catching some repeats on ‘Dave’ and has now snowballed into watching all that I can find and generally getting a bit excited as it gets closer to 8pm on a Sunday.

Really, that should not be a shock – I do like my cars. But I’m not a huge Jeremy Clarkson fan and wrote of most of the early series as blatant ego stoking by old Clark-o. After finally giving it a chance, though, it is actually not really about cars at all, and mercifully not that much about Clarkson’s ego. I really like James May, his ‘slow’ co-presenter who likes sheds, motorcycle maintenance, science and is generally a geek. Hooray! So yeah, I’ve gotten into it quite a lot.

Anyhoo – the shocker on last night’s show was that Kevin McCloud did rather well in the “Star in the Reasonably Priced Car” slot. I’m a big fan of the Kevin, he is passionate about design, efficiency and beauty, house building and interiors, all really good, interesting stuff. But it turns out he’s actually good at driving cars quite fast!

If you missed it, catch up at the wonderful BBC iPlayer http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00fys1m. (Only if you’re in the UK and probably only until 8th December 2008 I expect)

(Also, kudos to the beeb for having a flash-based video catch up that actually works reliably on the Mac. It’s the only one I’ve found – ITV try, but it doesn’t work, and Channel 4/Sky only work on Windows. Grr.)