We really don't know why Westlife fans have a reputation for being mental

• Posted by: 3am
• 26/10/09
• 01:04 pm

We've been sitting at our desk staring at this picture for ten minutes now and we still can't think of a thing to say about it. That might be because today is apparently the least productive working day of the year, or it might be because this picture does a perfectly good job all by itself of causing major offence to the motoring industry, the four members of Westlife and humanity in general so really, a pithy insult or two from us lot is surplus to requirements. But we'll have a "craic" at it anyway, shall we? 

Cars are bloody boring to look at, yes, but that's because they're, y'know, cars - functional hunks of metal to get you from A (school/work/home/the loony bin) to B (the Westlife concert). But not this one. This one's a four-wheeled tribute to Ireland's favourite key-change experts. If we owned it, we'd trade it in under that whole government scrappage thing, and spend the cash on shoes, sweets, holidays, an extensive course of therapy... anything but Westlife hubcaps.

Guttingly, though, you can't buy a car like this in the shops - it was created a couple of years ago for ITV1's Westlife Show. The owner rocked up at the GMTV studios this morning in the vehicle and even the boys themselves commented on what good nick it was in. Yep, nobody's even drawn a comedy moustache on Nicky's face. 

But let's look at the positives. We suppose having such a distinctive vehicle must come in handy when you're lost in the car park after a four hour Bluewater shopping marathon ("Well, it's got four wheels... and you pump the petrol into Kian's groin..."). And at least nobody in their right mind would ever steal it. Although we're not sure we'd trust Louis Walsh to look after the keys.

Pic: Goff