Happy St.Stephen's Day!
If Good King Wenceslas is looking out on the feast of motoring news this Christmas, he will have spotted the big story which is the potential merger of Nissan, Honda and Mitsubishi.
The story came out with this photo:
Assuming they are standing in front of their respective logos, the Mitsubishi guy looks slightly less unhappy with the deal than the other two.
It took me a while to work out what that photo reminded be of.
At first I thought of Kraftwerk - maybe performing Autobahn:
But they have lecturns.
And there are four of them.
As I have mentioned before, here and here for example, three is the magic number - although I was talking about Top Gear at the time at the start of the Chris Evans era.
You don't hear of him nowadays.
But maybe that is a clue as to what the photo reminds me of:
Except they look too relaxed.
And they are stood in the wrong order - Hammond is definitely Mitsubishi and Clarkson is definitely Nissan.
This photo is a bit closer:
But this is the photo that captures the mood best:
Now, what sort of vehicle will these three automotive icons come up with?
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