What are you driving?
I'm currently driving a Fiat Punto. It's a nippy little blue car. It's quite high up, like driving a van. I'd rather be in something even higher.

Like a Challenger tank or a Range Rover?
Something like that. I think it's to do with that moment when you're stuck behind someone and can't see past them to what's in front.

What does it say about you?
I'm quite a nippy driver myself - nippy rather than fast. I suppose I'm quite an assertive driver - assertive, not aggressive. I used to be aggressive, but now I'm fine. There are certain people who don't like being overtaken. Taxi drivers and men in white vans, principally.

What kind of people do you think drive those white vans?
People who have to spend their whole day in their vehicles. Their life seems to depend on them being stuck to my bumper. Now I usually just lose them, or I smile. When I meet difficult people, I just smile instead. It's always much more disconcerting.

Sounds quite resourceful. Is that the kind of driver you are?
What I really want to do is the Paris to Dakar race. I've also done some stunt driving. I was doing a film in Italy, and we were required to do our own stunts. I had to do a few handbrake turns. But, that's nothing big. I Thai box, I rollerblade, and I did a 400 mile drive across Namibia where we didn't know if we had enough petrol until we reached our destination. I do all that sort of stuff. I need a sponsor for the Paris to Dakar race though.

What does all this say about you, though?
That I'm a bit of a 12-year-old boy, really. I'm quite extreme. I was tracking rhinos in Namibia, and sleeping in the bush. A lot of me is very tomboyish, but that's polarised by a feminine, girly side.

Ok. Must be hell to be you. Have you ever had sex in a car?
Yes.

What car was it?
I really wasn't paying much attention to the car. I was a bit distracted at the time.

• Lynsey Baxter is in Psychos on C4 on Thursday