the approximate timeline of thom's car ownership:
sometime after 1985: "I was 17. Hadn't slept the night before. Anyway, eventually, my dad bought me another car, a Morris Minor, you know, and when you drove around corners in it, the driver door used to fly open."
not his actual car. just a visual...
(Correlated by this listing from someone who claims to own the Morris now; "...was owned for 20 years by Thom Yorke")
1997 - "And truer still, Thom doesn't actually try to run anyone over or, indeed, even drive an all-action Almera (it's a knackered old Fiat Punto actually, 'Top Gear' fanatics)."
2001 - Alfa Romeo 156
identified in this article as an "italian sports car"
(Alfa Romeo 156 for reference)
also, in 2001: "And he's off, leaping into a big, curvy, grey-green car, zooming away from the madness, a remarkable man with wonky eyes in spooky shoes and a hole in his soul in the shape of a "funny" triangle."
(It's possible that this is the Morris mentioned earlier; it lines up with the 20-year ownership period)
2003, unconfirmed: “I'm almost pathologically the opposite. I ring up my bank manager to ask him if it's all right for me to buy a Mini."
2005: "I was trying to convince Nigel to go surfing or to drive my old Land Rover across the sand dunes..."
(It's unclear when he bought this Land Rover...considering he calls it 'old')
2006: "I don't have solar panels on my house yet. I haven't sorted out the heating, my car's not a Prius, I f---ing fly all the time for my job and I hate it but at the moment I haven't really got a choice, you know, and all these things."
thom loves cars
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