Are you a gangster? It seems unlikely. They don’t subscribe to weekly car magazines, or if they do, they don’t enter into much correspondence with us.
Perhaps that is understandable, what with all that gangstering. I suppose their days are preoccupied with issues like shooters and pigs – they go through bone like butter, you know – rather than writing to Autocar. Which is a shame, because I could use a gangster’s opinion.
Gangsters need cars, right? If you are one, how do you decide which car to have? Spending frivolously on something inappropriate would be a distinctly ungangsterish thing to do.
The other day I watched a film called Atomic Blonde, in which a dodgy spy – dodgy enough to be 
a gangster of sorts – puts a semi- conscious body into the boot of a Porsche 911, alongside two flight cases. That’s clearly not going to work, is it? Two flight cases would be a challenge enough, without the addition of a burly Stasi officer.
So if you’re a gangster and you’re getting your tips from Hollywood, think again. Perhaps even think Haymarket Media Group. I’m not saying our sister mag What Car? is the ideal gangster’s buying guide, but boot capacity gets a prominent position in its specification lists.
But I digress from the point in hand, which is a report that the Mayor of Dover, Neil Rix, is unhappy with Dover’s civic car. It’s a Toyota Prius civic car rather than a Honda Civic civic car, disappointingly, but that’s not why Neil doesn’t like it.
He doesn’t like it because it’s too small for the Town Sergeant who drives him around, although Rix sometimes drives it himself, and it’s too small for him, too. Other Town Officers (who knew towns had so many titled positions?) will also use the car if it isn’t busy.
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In America the Volvo is the defacto stealth gangster car brand on the I 95 drug interstate. You don't even need to tint the windows observe the speed limit nothing to see here officer. Arrive refreshed even after driving 12 hours. BMW Quater to eight, Caddy Escalate, Mercedes G, Range Rover on the same route might as well have attorney on speed dial.
A large BMW/Mercedes in black
The Gangster car of today has to be S class or 7 series. BMW's and Mercedes seem to be the cars of choice for Bond villains and Eastern European Crime bosses. They are not frivolous but mean and workmanlike. The automotive version of an H&K MP5. Nothing as frivolous as a Hybrid or as attention grabbing (by the constabulary) as a US import. (Unless you live in Mexico when it is an armour plated Suburban or Escalade all the way)
Skoda Superb???
Well I suppose you could pack in a lot of goons and guns into a Superb estate.
Got to be a Range Rover sport, any current BMW M car (automotive knuckle dusters) or an S63 AMG.