1001hp is probably enough, right? Of course not, you idiot! 1001hp is nowhere near enough; it never has been! Are you kidding me? This is 2012, not 2005.

Bugatti have finally realised that the pathetically wet 1001hp standard Bugatti Veyron roadster is just way too underpowered to satisfy your typical Veyron driver; think mums and grannies.

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The first test of 2012 is over. The cars have been shaken down and the picture of 2012 is slowly developing.

At this very early stage it would be premature to determine the pecking order for the season ahead but it is possible to use comparable times to speculate who is up there and who still has some work to do. We can also look at some big stories that may develop over the season based on what we saw over the course of the four days.

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Are you becoming bored at work? Has your dwindling social life given you with more free time than before?

Or have you decided that becoming good at online games is a great way to pick up hot chicks? If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions then perhaps I have the answer.

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BMW M, Mercedes AMG, Audi S? This is a decision many rich people face on a daily basis. Well fear not. As I did with supercars a while back, I intend to answer this question once and for all (or at least have a jolly good go at it).

For the next three weeks, I will be looking at the aforementioned legends in a light-hearted but informative way.

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Continuing the list of the best driving albums of 2011, this time it’s E through K.

Ed Sheeran has his fair share of haters but I consider myself immune from this prejudice thanks to the manner in which I first encountered his music. My initial listen was to “You Need Me I Don’t Need You” on a road trip in Arizona, USA last summer.

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It’s undeniable - we live in a ‘disposable’ culture. Everything we buy, from our clothes to our PCs, is thrown out long before it needs replacement. Why?

Nine times out of ten it’s simply because it is succeeded by something newer, faster, smaller or better made.

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It’s taken a while but it is finally here. My Dad ordered his car a good 5 months ago and, after a couple of hiccups it was sitting proudly in our driveway a couple of weeks ago.

The funny thing was that it wasn’t actually the car that he ordered. It happened that the wrong car was delivered to someone else and that it fitted the specification that my Dad’s car was meant to have so we got it instead – quite a turn of luck if you ask me.

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For approximately 7 weeks of the year Britain is bombarded with ‘severe weather warnings’ issued by the met office. They advise you to ‘take extreme caution while driving’ and to ‘not leave the house unless absolutely essential’. We fear the worst, every year.

Grit stocks are piled up, council and private gritters are put on high alert and everyone turns up their heating a few degrees in preparation for the ‘Big Freeze’.

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I am very pleased to report that The Boy and I have been busy bookings things for our France and Spain road trip extravaganza!

We've booked the beginning and the end, one nights stay at a hotle in Folkestone, the Euro tunnel and the ferry back to Santander. Now all we need to do is plan the middle... Simple!

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From time to time, every person becomes burdened by a threatened level of self-confidence.

Whether one appears restrained by their feelings of self-doubt or alternatively decides to mask their fears behind a veil, cloaking their true feelings behind a curtain of false confidence, are synonymous siblings of a similar struggle.

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