Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder, VW Phaeton, Porsche Carrera GT, Bugatti Veyron, Audi RS4: Dream garage

Yes, you are reading right. All that models belong to Jeremy Clarkson's dream garage. And 5 out of 12 cars on his list belong to the Volkswagen Group and Porsche. That man has a good taste!

My current favourite is the Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder. Lamborghinis have always been 10 tons of style with no substance at all. But in recent years Audi has put a bit of Araldite in the mix and now you could nearly convince yourself that this noisy and shouty mid-engined drop top supercar with bright orange seats is a sensible exchange for 131,000 of your pounds. Plus another £600 if you want a cupholder.

It is expensive. Too expensive really for what you get in terms of technology, but when you first put your foot down, and those tail pipes start to trouble seismographs in faraway places, and the four-wheel-drive system starts to post power to whichever one of the fat tyres has the most grip and the whole thing starts to come alive, then all of a sudden £131,600 doesn’t sound so bad any more.

It does not make me feel as warm fuzzy, however, as the king of the hill, the engineering summit, man’s hobnail boot in the face of nature. The Bugatti Veyron. Like the Lamborghini it’s little and feels well made but unlike the Lambo it does 252mph. This make it officially “very fast”. Also it costs £830,000, which makes it officially “very expensive”. That said it is also a bargain, since it costs VW £5m to make each one.