Petrolheads face final countdown

PETROLHEADS may have thought the main threats to their full-throttle existence were low-traffic areas and green taxes.

But Countdown’s Dictionary Corner star Susie Dent has predicted such terms’ days are numbered. She says ‘miles per gallon’ and ‘take your foot off the gas’ will also disappear from our vocabulary amid an electric vehicle revolution.

Instead, terms such as ‘froot’, a boot in the front of a vehicle, will take over.

Miss Dent, who worked with online car retailer Cinch on the terms set to become extinct by 2032, said: ‘The language of the electric car will become as familiar to us as the vocabulary of the motor car did at the turn of the 20th century.’