And were back, starting the week off with yet another Top Gear UK episode.
Starting the episode, they featured Caterhams. Since Jeremys a large guy, it was Hamster who took it out on the test track. I think the last feature they had a Caterham was the race between assembling a kit car and the Stig driving from the Caterham factory to the test track. Well, the R500s a great stripped-down track car and might even give the Ariel Atom a real run for its money, 0-60 in 2.9 seconds and 520 hp per ton power-to-weight ratio. But Top Gear wouldnt just settle for the numbers there, they subjected the R500 to the Top Gear Excellence/Embarrassment graph in which it scores high on both axes. Then thats where they took out the Veritas RS3.
The Veritas shares the same shed car tradition of the Caterham but it looks like a 1930s racer with a futuristic twist. Powered by a V8 engine from BMWs M division, its pretty quick. Naught to 60 in 3.6 seconds and with a 2,200-lb body, its got some pretty good power-to-weight ratio as well. However, it does lack some of the performance and fun that one can get from Caterham R500.
Around the track, the Veritas did a 1:24.2 (quicker than the Audi R8). The Caterham did an amazing 1:19.9 - faster than a Veyron.

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Given that we are a nation of red-blooded, RWD-lovin, performance-mad and value-obsessed car junkies, its hard to imagine why Nissan never chose to fully import the more recent generations of Skyline into Australia. During the early 1990s Nissan brought over a handful of R32 GT-Rs to cash in on the cars success in local Group A racing, however lacklustre sales scuttled any chances of future full-volume imports of the powerful coupe.
It really was a missed opportunity though, as the Skyline family from the R32 up presented the ideal blend of performance, practicality and style in one hell of an enjoyable chassis. Second-hand examples of the R32, R33, R34 and V35 generations of Skyline are now numerous on Australian roads thanks to so-called importers, however the latest model has been noticeable by its absence.
Until now.
Thats right, dear readers. All you JDM-philes out there can rejoice, for thanks to importer International Motor Group, Australian J-car freaks can finally get their hands on the finest Skyline built to date: the V36 370GT Coupe.

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By todays standards Electronic Baseball is downright crude, with cheesy beeps and blips used for sound effects, and uninspired baseball diamond graphics in the background. Besides the smaller buttons used for power, sound and difficulty settings, the game only has two simple controller buttons which are used for swinging and advancing your runners on base. And even though the graphics surrounding the display clearly show fielders wearing jellyfish and boxing gloves instead of traditional baseball gloves, your team never actually takes to the field. In fact the game is more like a home-run derby in that you really just need to swing on every pitch and hope for the best. Since this was one of Tigers first handheld games (at least in this form factor) its not surprising how simple the gameplay really was, but as a kid I still played with it for hours on end.

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