For once, me and Jeremy Clarkson agree. Which is not of course to say we'll agree tomorrow on the same issue. Jeremy has a nasty habit of changing his mind. Repeatedly.
However, for the moment we agree, and birds are singing, and the world is a better place. Why? Because he's done something that Wheels Car Of The Year failed to do: called the new VE Dunnydore on it's interior plastics.
Remember the 2006 Wheels COTY? For those who came in late, Wheels told all and sundry how the Mitsubishi 380 was near-on perfect save for it's interior plastics, so they awarded COTY to the Mazda MX5, a car which doesn't even have a spare tyre. If this wasn't enough to show everyone the Wheel's COTY irrelevance, the very next year they award the COTY to the VE Commodore, a car which even it's manufacturers admit has terrible interior plastic.
But now the VE (in HSV Clubsport R8 guise) has gone to the Poms. And it's quite popular, except that in the very first review, Jeremy hates....the plastic.
Well done Wheels. Now you're not just a national joke, you're an international joke too. Hurrah.
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