IN CASE YOU HADN’T NOTICED, TOPGEAR IS BACK ON THE TELLY,
some years after the ‘new’ show started with Clarkson Hammond and Dawes In fact it’s exactly years as I write this report and can you guess what the first car to be reviewed by Clarkson was? Yep the Berlingo So I thought what better way to say goodbye to the eBerlingo than to look back on that film and see how far it has come
“It’s a curious looking thing ” he starts off and this one is arguably even more curious a bit Marmite even And in those days it was cheap really cheap They found a new Berlingo for less than k in fact at the end of the show they stated Citroen was doing a deal with the VAT off so that meant you could pick up a petrol one for Quite a contrast to today’s offering which costs k and only comes with an electric powertrain
Still as JC notes “It is possible to buy a number of other cars for Berlingo money but none of them will be this size none of them will be this well equipped and none of them will have the X factor ” Now I’m pretty sure for k you can get some pretty well equipped cars complete with allimportant ‘X factor’ but for the size? I reckon bar a bigger van there isn’t much that will beat it And thankfully the storage is just as good as it was including cavernous boot complete with overhead locker that as Clarkson states can fit an extra kg of booze in it
“It’s got the most important thing a car can have character ” Clarkson concludes and while the eBerlingo is still everything that it once was to my mind it’s sadly missing the important electric x factor decent range So unlike Jeremy I couldn’t take it over to France on a booze cruise OK I could have if I wanted to spend days travelling and let’s face it the pound isn’t what it once was so I took it to the next best thing I knew I could get to and back on one charge Majestic Wine