Northern Ireland is in the UK, but it's also on the island of Ireland, and St Patrick's Day is a public holiday there but not in the rest of the UK.

Yes, but Ireland does have the second highest percentage of redheads in the world after Scotland.

I've seen some police cars near me (in the UK) that have big stickers in the window reading "AUX BATTERY FITTED," which presumably means they have something like this. I think the ones with the stickers are the V-70R pursuit cars fitted with automatic numberplate recognition systems, which are presumably a big drain…

Not to mention that it's legal to sell 125cc motorcycles in the US, which are less safe than pretty much any car sold anywhere ever.

Really? Most 205s are cheap, but enthusiasts in Britain have been interested in the GTI for a good few years now...

resisting urge to make short bus joke...

Doble Model E. Because external combustion- oh, and 1000 lb ft of torque...

There's a Niger river in Africa, and I thought the no-longer-acceptable French word for a black person was "nègre".

How about a roast chicken after I'm done with it?

In Britain the court can order banned drivers to take a harder test to get their license back at the end of the ban period.

That was just because a CVPI is much more likely to be in a high-speed rear-end impact than any other car as they spend a lot of time sitting on the side of the highway...

The French have a claim to having invented the minivan...

There was recently a case in Britain where a woman got a brief driving ban (1 week IIRC) for driving at 10 mph on the motorway. On any form of road outside cities, and especially on highways, driving much too slowly is unsafe- other drivers will be on top of you much quicker than they think.

I think 2000-05 was the real bottom of the hill for Citroen. They'd been falling since the 1976 Peugeot takeover, but they'd always made a big quirky car- first the CX which was a worthy all-Citroen successor to the DS, then the XM. But after the XM stopped production in 2000, there was nothing bigger than a C5 until…

I don't know about the Other Place/ the Dark Side, but here in Cambridge very few students have cars- University rules ban undergraduates keeping cars in Cambridge unless they live in Cambridge outside term or have a specific reason. My one friend who kept a car in Cambridge as a student had a Golf Plus (2.0 diesel)…

Manual transmission yes- in fact, I don't know if they even sell an automatic, but you have a choice of 5- or 6-speed. I imagine that there's an automatic version for wheelchair users.

Ski pole bow? Why not a ski pole gun?

Gasoline cars also have parasitic loads- clocks, alarm systems, and the like. Those are still being used while sitting, and running down the battery. That's either recharged off a trickle-charger if you have one or recharged using the alternator when you next start the car, which uses gas. So a gasoline-powered car…

I'm talking about the other Cambridge, and Nibbles ate my video. Here it is again...

Cambridge, 85 Nobel Prizes and counting...