Duncan Bell Is Highly Driven

It’s now officially impossible for car launches to get any more crazy or awesome

In the bar, the people at the next table have literally frozen on the spot. In the corner, a group of card players have done the same, now sitting as still as statues. Statues of card players. In a bar. 

International megamodel, movie star and mum Mila Jovovich leans in, lightly touches my shoulder and breathily intones, “When a door opens, you should walk through it.” A camera flash pops, capturing the moment.

So, yeah, that was my last evening out. What have you been up to lately? Part of the fun of being a tech journalist is being invited to lots of snazzy, swanked-up events, where I get fed canapés by attractive young people from Eastern Europe, in return for sitting through a ten-minute presentation about a new sat-nav, or what have you. It’s a decent perk.

Now and then, I’ll get invited to an event so spectacular, it makes your average flagship-smartphone launch seem like a leaving do for an unpopular colleague. But Toyota’s ‘The Night That Flows’ immersive event for its C-HR car? Now, that really took the biscuit.

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