Ten Things We Learned This Week

The sugary drink company's not just drowning in pupil-dilating grog and F1 domination - there's a clearly a few pounds sloshing around in its PR department, as demonstrated by this infuriatingly watchable best-of video of all its publicity stunts.

Several car news websites across the pond claimed that the trailers for our new series were "not funny at all", "bored them to hell", and that "the three TG trailers get both thumbs down". Sorry, chaps. Next time we'll make sure someone's trousers fall down.

If you've been living in a news-free offline bunker for the past few days, you won't know that belligerent haircut, Justin Beiber, was arrested on suspicion of drag-racing with an expired license in a rented Lamborghini Gallardo while under the influence of alcohol, marijuana and prescription drugs. Not cool.

This thing's got one hell of a conk, hasn't it? We wonder if Ferrari 2014 F1 car, which will be unveiled on Sunday, will look as similar to a proboscis monkey?

TG mag's tame bystander, Ollie Marriage, demonstrates that it's actually a massive logistical undertaking to watch any of the racing at the Dakar endurance rally. Here's how not to do it...

This week we discovered that new C220 BlueTec C-Class has a drag coefficient of just 0.24, making it the slipperiest in its class. But it can't quite top the 1935 Tatra T77a, which has a claimed cd of just 0.212. Knowing this fact is guaranteed to make you more attractive to the opposite sex.

Yes, Bentley has released a range of sofas, chairs and even a sideboard. Which makes them early favourites in this year's prestigious Cynical Branding Exercise award.

When we heard that Britain's first pub in a motorway services had opened, we took to Twitter and asked @BBC_TopGear followers to create car-themed cocktails. You did well:

@TFS_Car_Leasing
Aston Martini

@JoeSeff91
MG & T

@SteveWithers
Audi Cointreau

@NoahWithNoArk
Buick's Fizz

@Timmy_NorthJan
Pina Corrado

@ron525i
Canadian Clubman (for the kids)

@LittleMisSerene
Ariel ATom Collins

@bkked
Cortinacolada

@OfficialLexusUK
Long Island IS-tea

@gibbosthoughts
Scotch and Skoda

@HchyB
CRX on the beach

Earlier in the week, we showed you this video of 1955 Le Mans champion, Mike Hawthorn, giving you live commentary on a lap of La Sarthe while thrashing a Jaguar D-Type. While cars, humans, and lorries leapt into his path. It may be the best thing we've seen this year.

It seems like rallying has finally been given a long-awaited revival. There's a Brit on the podium (Kris Meeke was third at the Monte Carlo rally), and it's back on TV (BT Sport, if you're interested). Now read our interview with our favourite Bentley-fond rallyist.