I've been thinking a lot about driving recently. Having failed two tests...both in the UK...both for utterly stupid reasons...both on cars with manual gearboxes...I can't decide if the time is finally right to have one more go...in an automatic...on this side of the Atlantic.

Worst case scenario I remain a cab-taking-pedestrian...best case...road trips...the potential to buy the Jennifer Hart 70's Mercedes Roadster of my bad-television-induced dreams...and the ability to park (should work or whim take me to Detroit) in the somewhat eroded 1920's splendor of the Michigan Theater...