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If you’re interested in the real nuts and bolts of the car industry your geek-o-senses will tingle with excitement at news of a freshly-published autobiography by former Chrysler UK and Austin Rover design boss Roy Axe.

In a cruel twist of timing, Axe died last month but not before completing this wonderful reflection on his working life.

As well as creating crisply styled, everyday cars that made our high streets look slightly more stylish, Axe also had an amazingly cool name and rocked a bald head / big specs combo that made him the groovy Eric Morecambe-alike of Brit car sketching. Plus, when he arrived at Austin Rover they showed him the top secret Maestro just before it entered production and he told them it looked shit so you know his aesthetic sense was top notch.

If you love juicy behind the scenes tales from a time when Britain had a proper car industry, you really should buy this book. Make with the Amazon clicky to do so.

The Big Book of Top Gear 2011 is the new title by the man who writes this website and it’s on sale in all good bookshops now.

Inside you’ll find vast swathes of nonsense, largely related to the world’s most popular TV show about having an argument and then falling over, often near some cars.

Highlights include details of the Jeremy Clarkson Hyperbole Service, Richard Hammond’s guide to living in the countryside, James May’s new rave CD, an excellent Reliant Robin cartoon, a guide to Top Gear filming locations and some stuff about secret things you never saw on the telly.

There’s also a free handbook for the TG electric car, a look at some new movies directed by the presenters and a hilarious joke in which The Stig accidentally writes a rather boring autobiography in the comically overwrought style of Troy Queef. Although come to think of it, that last thing really has happened.

The Big Book of Top Gear 2011. It’s like Sniff Petrol except it’s a book and it’s mostly about Top Gear.

Click here to buy it from Amazon.

Yes, the internet discussion forum is the craze that’s sweeping the nation, writes a man cruelly trapped in the mid- to late 1990s. It’s therefore no surprise to learn that even this very website has a discussion forum, run by the nice people at tyresmoke.net Unfortunately, because no one seems to know or care about the Sniff Petrol forum it is about as busy as a website in the mid- to late 1890s. Why not see if you can change that by going over to the Sniff Petrol forum right now and blathering on for a bit about cars and stuff. What have you got to lose, apart from valuable time, dignity and possibly an eye.

Listen up, television fans. Sniff Petrol‘s mate Big John has made a fantastic new TV series about Stock Car racing and it starts tonight at 10:30pm on BBC1.

The show is called Gears & Tears and it focuses on a real life War Of The Roses between Stock Car’s two dominant dynasties.

It’s got racing! It’s got fighting! It’s got crashes! In a later programme it has a man with the most lurid arse bruise you’ve ever seen.

If you like Sniff Petrol but you wish it was a six part fly-on-the-wall BBC1 documentary about Stock Car racing on Monday nights after the news, you must watch Gears & Tears.

Gears & Tears, BBC1, 10:30 tonight

Sniff Petrol has written another Top Gear-related book. It’s called The Alternative Highway Code. Actually, Sniff Petrol’s very talented mate Paul did all the hard work but Sniff was around to provide unhelpful interference and a reference to Angela Lansbury.

If you would like to buy this lovingly tooled volume then you might like to know that it’s available from all good bookshops, some mediocre supermarkets, and of course via amazon.co.uk

Top Gear: The Alternative Highway Code. It’s like the real Highway Code, but with 17 more jokes in it.

The weather is warm and a chap’s thoughts invariably turn to shaking off that fusty winter coat in favour of something more appropriate. A T-shirt for example. A T-shirt that you can leave the house in of an evening and then bitterly regret later when the sun has gone down and everyone still wants to sit outside the pub. Well you can’t suggest moving indoors can you, lest everyone calls you a ‘homo’. You should have brought a jacket you idiot. Anyway, none of this is Sniff Petrol’s problem; we’re just trying to flog you some T-shirts.

And what T-shirts they are, bearing the distinctive slogan of everyone’s favourite appalling try-hard prose writer Troy Queef. You can get your very own piece of wearable Queefery by making with a clicking action upon this highlighted text

Don’t forget that if you need to buy more than one new T-shirt for the approaching summer, and frankly you probably should, you could get Troy tees in all three colours. Or you could visit Slick Attire, the lovely people who make the Queef shirts and many other excellent designs. Yes.

Just a quick reminder about some of the exciting and highly futuristic things that Sniff Petrol does outside of hardly ever updating this website.

First off there’s the splendid Gareth Jones on Speed podcast featuring lots of car stuff being talked about by three men, one of whom is almost certainly writes this website (when he can be bothered).

Secondly, Sniff Petrol has a Facebook fan page upon which you can write things, such as complaints about why the next issue is late, or pose questions, such as why the bloody hell haven’t you done a new issue you lazy twat. There’s also an unseen sweary MG ad on there and – SCOOP! – a brand new fake ad that didn’t make it into this issue.

Thirdly, don’t forget the Sniff Petrol Twitter feed which provides more regularly updated snippets of shite including the surprisingly popular LIVE coverage of Formula 1 races, things happening in Sniff Petrol’s real life permitting.

Fourthly, it may be covered in dust and buried at the back of some internet cupboard, but Sniff Petrol still has a discussion forum, providing the perfect place to moan about why there isn’t a new issue and the lack of Twitter feed during the last race.

Finally, don’t forget that you can still buy an attractive Troy Queef DAB OF OPPO T-shirt thanks to the nice people at Slick Attire