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It is the most beautifully crafted and most electrifying motor vehicle on the planet. It is the stuff of dreams. It sits in a modern world, with undiluted purpose and ‘engineering resolve’.

Audi’s R8 V10 Spyder certainly marks a turning point in my automotive fanaticism; for I am now rather excited by the roof being stowed away, the unimpeded universe all around me, and the clone army residing in the V10 that I am throttling with my right foot.

Back at the helm, I find a flat strip of tarmac and engage launch control. The 5-position Manettino (which now offers a setting for optimised driving in snow and in wet conditions) is probably where it shouldn’t be – allowing me to go a little berserk!

Who wants to potter around town timidly in this little stonker? It is as if the tyres were moulded from Araldite, for no other hatch has ever given me such a sense of being glued to the road!

If I were to break the new Rapide down for you, with simplicity, I would have to say: “As promised at the time of conception, this car has painstakingly been developed to deliver a truly engaging driving experience… while seating four adults, comfortably.”

Tipping the scales when laden at over three tonnes, this enormous bespoke Bentley is the ‘bees knees’ of motoring, and I’m driving it for the next few days here in Oman.

Moments after a standing start to 100km/h dash – achieved within 3.4 seconds I might add! – my wife felt nauseous; and by the time I had completed our ‘brace yourself’ drive back home, her throat was hoarse from screaming at me in a state of fear and tumult.

Having shed more than a few pounds the all-new Touareg is more of a stallion now, so we dialled in ‘off-road’ and leapt up onto a sand dune. I love this car.

In March of this year, British racecar gurus, Lotus, revealed the fastest car they have ever made. The 2010 Lotus Exige Cup 260. Here in Oman, at the Shanfari showroom, I was handed the keys, and told in no uncertain terms to “find the magic that is Lotus.”

It is often easy to equate a possession, usually an inanimate object, to a woman. Music legend B.B. King dubbed his guitar Lucille – after a lady, the craters discovered on Venus were named after famous women, and so too were most of the great seafaring vessels throughout history.