Monaco Grand Prix: The cars! The driving! The fashion! The gadgets!

The Monaco Grand Prix gets into gear from tomorrow until the 27th, with 77 laps of the winding streets of Monaco bringing out the best of automotive engineering and, erm, girls in bikinis waving flags.

In honour of this grand tradition of burning rubber, we've picked out five of the best cars and motorist-friendly gadgets for you to cast your eye over...

Porsche are offering a women-only driving experience. It combines the best of speed demon satisfaction with girlie pursuits in a relaxed man-free environment. And it's in Birmingham! (Yeah, okay, Birmingham, Alabama).

But what if you're feeling guilty for increasing your carbon footprint with Porsche? Why not consider pre-ordering a Zap-X Electric Car from ZAP and Lotus Engineering. It's just as saintly and a whole lot sexier than the NICE zero-emission hatchback. Then again, there's always the first hybrid sports coupe...*

So you've chosen your car, you've experienced the mindblowing freedom of piloting four wheels through a traffic jam along the motorway... but what about your destination? That's where Navman's Navpix technology (and a little help from Lost Weekend) come in, helping you plan and document your freewheeling adventures.

Of course, mindblowing freedom on the streets is all very well and good, but if you're taking your beloved family with you on the road you'll need a way to keep them quiet long enough to actually enjoy the ambience (because you are, in fact, not nearly there yet). Disney have thoughtfully provided a way to end sharing squabbles with a dual-screen DVD player.

Finally, the open road is yours. Apart from the speed cameras. Licence to print money, yadda yadda yadda. But you don't have to get caught! Oh no! There are completely legal speed camera detectors that will let you make the most of your MX-5 (cos, let's face it, that's the only one actually in your price range, and even then the insurance isn't cheap) without giving a terminal case of measles to your driving licence.

Okay, I know I said five but it's just too tempting to add one last piece of motoring madness, this time for those of you who can't / won't / don't want to / can't afford to drive, but like to keep in touch with the spirit of supercar engineering. The Meridian Ferrari-branded F80 home entertainment system in Testarossa red is a good place to start (as our video shows).

Bon voyage!

*You might, around now, be getting the impression that Alex rather likes cars. You can keep the mindblowing engineering of the Bugatti Veyron - she wants an Aston Martin DB9, thanks. *mumble mumble* but it's not available in hybrid *mumble mumble*