Motorshow : 24th October 2002
Drove the Noble up to the Motorshow and had a long weekend at a country hotel in Devon FOC due to winning it in a charity ball.

Went to the Motorshow - made a beeline for the Noble Stand, and within 20 minutes had ordered a GTC! Just seeing the car meant I had to have one - as it's exactly what I was after - something to replace the Elise with but with significantly more poke. Alan Wallace said that there were at least 7 people in front of me (dam dam dam) and I was there at 9:30am on the first public day!

Walked around the rest of the show, some cute cars, some horrible looking ones.

The new Invicta

New Marcos

MG Rover Stand

Something weird from Mazda

New VW Touareg and it's amazing W12 engine

Random Cars - poor show from Lotus

Great "classic" area

New Volvo XC90 - would I swap my X5 for one - would I hell!

Ford stand was interesting - lots of "hot hatches" around - nice to see Ford getting back to its roots

Lovely display of the James Bond cars

Nice display of Jags and Aston's as well...

Wacky and Weird stuff from Citroen

Spyker's cars were nice - but I think I'd rather have a Lambo for my €300,000!

Ferrari was nice to see in the flesh - shame there was no-one to talk to about the rest of their range

TVR's stand was awash with people - so just took some shots of the new cars and legged it!

New Porsche SUV - not sure I like the styling

Audi....

Bentley stole the show really - their Contiental GT is one hell of a car

Cute cars...

Chrysler Crossfire

Vauxhall's huge stand - old, new and future cars

And finally the Lexus car out of Minority Report - I want one!

Got back to the car to find I had left the lights on (5 hours later) and had a flat battery. Fortunately managed to convince two lads walking by to give us a push (that's what the spoiler is for!) and everything was fine.

Horrible run down to Devon from Birmingham - the rain was chucking it down. Car felt stable considering how "skittish" some tightly sprung cars can feel. Blasts around Devon country lanes were good fun - shame it just rained so much!