Overrated: Toyota GR Yaris

The power of the crowd should never be underestimated, as anyone who’s watched Gladiator will attest. Sometimes the crowd can be brutal in its judgement, while other times it gets carried away becoming quite irrational in its thoughts.

But argue with the crowd at your peril – because if you criticise the crowd and it disagrees, you’ll end up as cat food. Either actually or figuratively, depending upon which century you inhabit.

Will I be thrown to the lions for daring to criticise a car about which the crowd, or certainly the motoring press (more accurately described as a rabble) has been so universal in its praise? I’m not sure, but let’s see. As the kid in the Dr Pepper advert used to say: ‘What’s the worst that could happen?’