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"It"ll be a place where everyone is welcome, where we can have a stanced third-gen Civic turn up and chat to a bloke with a pre-war Bentley, be interrupted by a lady with a Norton and they all fall into conversation with a GT2 owner. There"ll be art on the walls, people building things, amazing food and coffee, really good booze, a place where you can have your car valeted. We"ll have EV charging points and places to sort your bike out, be that pedal or motor. But more than that, it"ll be inclusive. No hierarchy based on the thickness of your wallet. This will be a place where everyone knows your name." Phil McGovern is waxing lyrical, lost in a furious eddy of inspiration, and it"s something to behold. A impressive mini-rant-slash-mission statement that"s a weird mix of hippy socialism and southern-American TV preacher, seasoned with an obvious - and slightly feral - intelligence. His green eyes are gently unfocussed behind his patched-up glasses as he surveys the plot of his new venture near a little place called Ettington at the bottom of the Cotswolds, mentally overlaying future vision on the bones of the present. He"s pointed himself in the direction of the massive, majestic and ancient cedar in the middle of the grounds, the view forwards summertime idyllic. TG looks back at a builder joyfully smashing a wall down of the main house with an implausibly large hammer, take in the various skips and rubble piles, and can think of only one thing: "Did you really just quote the tagline from Cheers?"
Date written: 15 Aug 2018
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"It"ll be a place where everyone is welcome, where we can have a stanced third-gen Civic turn up and chat to a bloke with a pre-war Bentley, be interrupted by a lady with a Norton and they all fall into conversation with a GT2 owner. There"ll be art on the walls, people building things, amazing food and coffee, really good booze, a place where you can have your car valeted. We"ll have EV charging points and places to sort your bike out, be that pedal or motor. But more than that, it"ll be inclusive. No hierarchy based on the thickness of your wallet. This will be a place where everyone knows your name." Phil McGovern is waxing lyrical, lost in a furious eddy of inspiration, and it"s something to behold. A impressive mini-rant-slash-mission statement that"s a weird mix of hippy socialism and southern-American TV preacher, seasoned with an obvious - and slightly feral - intelligence. His green eyes are gently unfocussed behind his patched-up glasses as he surveys the plot of his new venture near a little place called Ettington at the bottom of the Cotswolds, mentally overlaying future vision on the bones of the present. He"s pointed himself in the direction of the massive, majestic and ancient cedar in the middle of the grounds, the view forwards summertime idyllic. TG looks back at a builder joyfully smashing a wall down of the main house with an implausibly large hammer, take in the various skips and rubble piles, and can think of only one thing: "Did you really just quote the tagline from Cheers?"
Date written: 15 Aug 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 12939
