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This week we revisit Clarkson as our Motor Critic of the week, his witty reviews of cars provide a good proportion of comic critique and unfiltered opinion:

“I rang up Jay Kay, who’s got one, and said, “You know, can we borrow yours?” and he said, “Yeah, if I can borrow your daughter, because it amounts to the same thing.” – Jeremy on Jay Kay’s Ferrari Enzo

“Ferrari is so pleased with it, they’ve named it after the founder of the company. They call it the Enzo. That’d be the same as Lotus calling their next car…”The Colin”. ” – Ferrari Enzo

“It’s supposed to be easier to live with, and easier to drive… so has it worked? – Oh.. Ohh, my God. No… no… no, no, no. No. No. No, it hasn’t. ” – TVR Tuscan 2

“You see, my wife loves this car. She loves the noise and the vibrations and the sense of danger and the way that when you over-rev it, the whole dash lights up like a baboon’s backside. Richard Hammond on the other hand, he pretty much hates it. He says its too difficult and too complicated and that all the stitching in here looks like the kind of stitching you find when someone’s tried to mend their own shoes.” – TVR Tuscan 2

We have constructed a page along side this blog series of all the motoring quotes we collect. This is viewable from the following link – read the best, funniest and most quality motor critics around:

http://www.wheels-near-u.co.uk/motor_critic_of_the_week_quotes

This week we start a new series – Wheels of the World – We will scour the world bringing you the best, funniest and wackiest Wheel Related Videos - from excellent welsh rally recordings to crazy cars!

This week: 171 Ft in a Subaru Impreza, How fast is too fast? Bugatti Beating Car and Wales Rally GB 2006 Highlights.

Ken Block jumps this black Subaru Impreza rally car 171 feet:

The SSC (Shelby Super Cars) Ultimate Aero TT is far from your average car powered by a 6.3L Twin Turbo V8 (1183 BHP) it can do 0-60 in 2.7 seconds. This video shows it testing top speed in the snow – at which it reached 241 mph at only 71% throttle.

We give you the Ultimate Aero TT:

“By the end of August, SSC is confident and have invited The Guiness Book of World Records to officially record its top speed for the World’s Fastest Production car held by the (Swedish) Koenigsegg CCX’s 242 mph, and surpassing the unofficial (Italian) Bugatti Veyron’s top speed of 253 mph.“

The following video shows highlights of the last stages of Wales Rally GB 2006. Some very good driving!:

This years Orllwyn Teifi Vintage Show was a great event, with a huge turnout of public, classic cars, vintage bikes, steam engines and much more. Wheels-Near-U had a stand at ringside and was actively reporting on the show over the whole weekend.The Wheels-Near-U Girls had a ride on the monster truck (Roughneck), as well as a ride on the motorcycle Wall of Death.

We took over 600 photo’s of the whole event. We are in the process of adding them to the gallery – 2/3 are already up and to view the gallery please click the following:

Wheels-Near-U Gallery > Orllwyn-Teifi-Vintage-Show > 2007

We will provide further updates tomorrow on processing of the rest of the photographs along with a more full account of the weekend.