Sudden outbreak of amnesia strikes the rich

Ever forgotten where you've parked the car? Of course you have. We all have. And Jenson Button's father certainly has, after he had police searching the small towns of the Italian Riveria for his lost Ferrari 550 last weekend.

"It's all a bit embarrassing, but the roads that lead into Alassio and Laigueglia are almost identical, even the railings look the same, and they both have a fork in them," John Button told The Daily Telegraph.

"The police found it quite amusing,' said Button, ‘and once things had been resolved said, 'Give our regards to Jenson'."

That's fairly embarrassing. But have you ever forgotten you've owned a car completely? No, us neither. That would be monumentally stupid.

Except, it seems, if your name is Jermaine Pennant and you're a footballist for Stoke City.

This week his former Spanish club, Real Zaragoza, phoned and asked him to remove his £98,000 Porsche from a local railway station, where it had been parked for the past five months.

In a move that proves once and for all that footballers are beginning to lose touch with reality, Pennant claimed that he didn't own the vehicle at all. You'd have thought the fact that the numberplate read 'P33NNT' might've given him a clue...

What about you, TopGear.commers? Ever accidentally wiped a vehicle from your memory?