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As assignments go, this one wasn"t bad. Go to Ibiza, they said. There will be sun, sea, sand, superclubs and other things beginning with S. Best of all, I would be given the fastest car in the world. This may come as a surprise to anyone who"s just ordered the new Bugatti, but hard luck, because everyone knows that the quickest way from A to B isn"t with a two-metre-wide hypercar, but with a twenty-quid-a-day holiday rental from the airport. Especially a shabby one with no roof.You know the sort. Dirt-cheap jeeps and I mean that with a small j" with engines that never blow up no matter how much you abuse them. Normally it"s a Suzuki Jimny, but if you"re lucky it might be an actual Jeep, and if you"re really lucky it"ll be a Citroen Mehari, an original one with plastic panels and mechanical bits from a 2CV. Along with the Mini Moke, it was one of the first proper beach buggies it weighed next to nothing, you could hose down the interior and despite the majority being two-wheel drive, it could scamper over the sand without getting beached.Photography: John WycherleyThis feature was originally published in issue 283 of Top Gear magazine.
Date written: 10 Jul 2016
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As assignments go, this one wasn"t bad. Go to Ibiza, they said. There will be sun, sea, sand, superclubs and other things beginning with S. Best of all, I would be given the fastest car in the world. This may come as a surprise to anyone who"s just ordered the new Bugatti, but hard luck, because everyone knows that the quickest way from A to B isn"t with a two-metre-wide hypercar, but with a twenty-quid-a-day holiday rental from the airport. Especially a shabby one with no roof.You know the sort. Dirt-cheap jeeps and I mean that with a small j" with engines that never blow up no matter how much you abuse them. Normally it"s a Suzuki Jimny, but if you"re lucky it might be an actual Jeep, and if you"re really lucky it"ll be a Citroen Mehari, an original one with plastic panels and mechanical bits from a 2CV. Along with the Mini Moke, it was one of the first proper beach buggies it weighed next to nothing, you could hose down the interior and despite the majority being two-wheel drive, it could scamper over the sand without getting beached.Photography: John WycherleyThis feature was originally published in issue 283 of Top Gear magazine.
Date written: 10 Jul 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 4199
