Since last month, all has been well with the R8 on the mechanical front, but I have had an aesthetic problem. I returned from a recent trip to find that some unpleasant person had thrown an egg at my car while it was stationed in the underground car park of the building I live in. Of course, in that period the egg has dried hard onto the paint and anyone who has washed a dish after having eggs for lunch knows that it’s not the easiest substance to wash off.  A trip to the car wash got most of it off, but the areas with the heaviest concentration of yolk remained blemished.  After applying lots of extra shampoo and scrubbing for a long time the paint was finally food free. Unfortunately the whole ordeal has left a few scratches on the rear bonnet between the engine’s glass cover and the pop-up rear spoiler. The fact that the car is metallic black of course means that the imperfection is highly obvious. I plan to take the car for a polish as soon as I get a chance, which will hopefully help it regain is previously perfect finish.

I am really frustrated that I have put so much effort into keeping the R8 in immaculate shape and then some inconsiderate idiot ruins it all for no reason.  The whole scenario reminds me of a scene from the classic Quentin Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction, when John Travolta’s super cool character Vincent Vega is telling his drug dealer, Lance, played by Eric Stoltz, that someone had keyed his prized classic Chevy Malibu: “Ï wish I had caught them doing it. It would have been worth them doing it if I just could have caught them, you know what I mean?” to which his dealer responded: “They should be f***ín’ killed, no trial, no jury, straight to execution. That’s chicken sh*t, you don’t f**k with another mans vehicle” Excuse the language, I know evo is a family magazine but I’m sure most of you would feel exactly the same way.