Today would be a very good day to win the lottery.

For a start it would go some way to offsetting the damage caused by winning the bid for those tickets to the Comic Relief Top Gear special on Sunday.

But more importantly, and in the same vein, this little puppy would be coming home with me:

Of course it's not an ordinary bloody Ford Cortina. It's the Cortina, as used by Messrs Hunt and Tyler in Life On Mars. Those cunning gits at Comic Relief have persuaded the producers to part with it (since the show has always been set to run for two series alone, it won't be needed by them any more), and it's being auctioned off for charity on eBay.

At the time of writing the car, a 1974 model despite the series being set in 1973, will set you back more than £10,000.

Congratulations to whichever individual has the money and taste to currently be leading the bidding. If I had my way I'd plonk fifty grand at the very least on the table tomorrow in a bid to take that hunk of metal home. Then I'd spend the rest of the lottery win on a bigger driveway - the Dodge is going nowhere.

Speaking of the Dodge, you may remember that a while back I noticed Dodge advertising in my ice hockey game on the PS2.

Well it seems it's not just fictitious US ice hockey which gets the Dodge treatment - real UK ice hockey's in on the act too. Admittedly this photo could have been better (I was in a hurry), but this is a Dodge Caliber with the Basingstoke Bison logo outside their home rink:

The Bison, who I already liked anyway, definitely get my vote with their prudent and tasteful choice of sponsor. Click here to read about the 'Hockey 101' night I attended at the rink on Thursday - if you're interested in ice hockey you might pick up a thing or two.