There have been "car bombs" well before there were cars. On the 24th of December 1800 (yes, eighteen hundred) some royalist Breton rebels tried to blow up Napoleon on the Rue Saint-Nicaise in Paris with a barrel of gunpowder attached to a cart, known as an "infernal machine". Several innocent bystanders were killed,…

@Novaload: Three men walk into the Met. One of them threatens the security guard with a gun, while the others take the most valuable paintings off the walls. They run outside, throw their multi-million-dollar haul into a waiting Econoline, and drive off.

@Tossed Accord taco salad over Malibu face: That's New Hampshire. Massachusetts is "The Spirit of America".

@englishwhitetrash: is the Jalop proletariat: We also robbed lots of different languages to get our vocabulary. Labour, like colour and flavour, comes from Latin via French. Metaphor comes from Greek. In fact, it's the current Greek word for "transport" in the sense of moving objects around- you see a lot of trucks in…

Synchromesh and electric starter.

@Jeb_Hoge: Also Single Vehicle type-approval, driving tests taken in a stick-shift car, and only one toll highway in the whole country...

@AlexG55: Bugger, images from that site not displaying. Here's another pic of the SM:

@AlexG55: Here's the SM

@calzonegolem: Nope. I give you 1 PR 75, the personal conveyance of General Charles de Gaulle. It's a stretched DS, and the car that saved his life in an assassination attempt due to the strange gearing and ability to drive on 3 wheels.

@banner77amc: Apparently the Isetta (or iSetta?) name is already being resurrected for a rear-engined RWD microcar that will also be sold as the FIAT Topolino. That will have an electric version, though...

@shmendo: The sale of commissions in Britain was abolished in 1871. So a few of the very oldest generals in WW1 might have bought their commissions as ensigns (which used to be an army rank below lieutenant), but they would have to have been promoted normally from then on.

This is the sort of car that Citroen should be making- they don't need to be Germanic sports sedans, just capable of covering distances at reasonably high speeds as comfortably as possible, regardless of the road surface. 160 on the Autobahn isn't what you want- 100 on a potholed East European highway while feeling…

@baldheadeddork: According to Opel, the Combo van (which is based on the same platform as the Chevy Tornado) has a maximum payload of over 1700 pounds. This vehicle is sold in Europe and has a passenger version, so must have met some sort of safety standards- though it doesn't appear to have been crash-tested by…

@civicdrivr: Presumably the 170-horse 1.4 TSI motor from the Polo GTI would fit...

@SpdstrME07001: On another forum I post on, we have a former USMC tanker. Apparently, tanks don't have keys, either. Usually all the hatches are locked from the inside apart from the commander's, which is padlocked- but once you get through the padlock, or if it wasn't locked, you can start the tank up and drive it…

None of my family's cars (on 2 continents) are specifically "mine", so here's all of them:

@87CapriceEstate: All cars in the UK have white front plates and yellow rear ones.

I doubt it was actually a burka- that's the completely shapeless one with the grill for the face, that I've never seen outside TV news reports on Afghanistan. The one with the eye slit is a niqab, the plain headscarf (as in the picture, and as worn by the majority of Muslim women in the Western world who cover their…

@Ethan Byrne: Ettore Bugatti called them "the world's fastest trucks" when he was fed up with them beating him at Le Mans: