The Motorists’ Handbook is brought to you by the Top Gear Motoring Association, a bigger, faster, louder alternative to the AA and the RAC.

In the venerable tradition of the AA Members’ Handbook, Top Gear provides its own essential almanac for today’s motorists, with information on everything from buying cars and car maintenance to taking your car on holiday, by ferry, train or how to adapt it for travelling by sea.You’ll find a mileage chart and new routes across the country that you might have previously thought impossible, advice on how to find the ideal car, even if you are 18 feet tall, and a special section on what happens if you fill the screen-washer bottle with soup. All this, plus up-to-the-minute vital safety news on a range of cars, including the notorious recall on 2500 Vauxhall Ocelots after the interior was accidentally fitted with some wolves.Illustrated throughout with helpful photographs and line-drawings, this indispensible guide should be kept in the glovebox, and never taken out.