Let's go round again

Most people barely even have an opinion about roundabouts but some just can't get enough of them, discovers JOHN EVANS

- JOHN EVANS

Surely, if anyone knows a dull car when he sees one, Kevin Beresford does. That's why I've asked the creator of those tedious but inexplicably popular wall calendars 'Car Parks of the UK' and 'Motability Scooter Riders of Benidorm' to consider another: 'Dull Cars of Redditch', a potential companion calendar to his recently launched 'Roadworks of Redditch', the relevance of the place being only that he lives there.

So it is that I find myself standing in a car park in the Worcestershire town with the Lord of the Rings - so called on account of his presidency of the UK Roundabout Appreciation Society (UKRAS) and his 12 calendars so far dedicated to the UK's greatest gyratory traffic systems as he considers its assortment of dull cars, earnestly deciding which is the dullest.

"That one," he says, pointing at a grey city car.

It's a Suzuki Wagon R+. You and I may know why this early-2000s box is not as dull as he imagines (indeed, Autocar described it as "the UK's bestkept secret" at the time), but since he was once invited to be deputy assistant vice-president of no less an organisation than America's Dull Men's Club, I have little choice but to agree.