While it wasn't the first by a long way, in 1919 driving coast-to-coast was still difficult, especially in trucks. An Army truck convoy took 56 days to get from Washington to San Francisco, averaging 5 mph and driving on unpaved roads most of the way.
Land Rover body panels are aluminium (with an extra I because they're British)- though I'll admit the frame is steel.
I can't speak for all 50 states, but my American license was a lot easier to obtain than my British one, and I have no reason to believe that my state's test is particularly easy.
In Europe anything over 3500 kg (7700 lb) GVWR requires a commercial license to drive- there are also limits on towing, and in a lot of places they have lower speed limits. This means any Ram other than a 1500 needs a Class C1 (small truck) commercial license.
Well, I don't know about rallycross, but in Europe rally cars have to be road-legal, and they sell customer cars to privateer teams. I mean, you can't just go into a Ford, Citroen or MINI dealer and buy one, but if you have enough money (six figures) and phone up their competition department they'll sell you one.
I've been on some pretty rough dirt tracks in Greece in ordinary hatchbacks and sedans, but they were rented. It's fine in a rental, but in my car I want the skid plates.
Well, Mercedes have used F for their concept cars since the mid-90s.
I've seen one of those once. It was being used to launch a boat from a trailer. I have no idea how it had survived that long being used for that...
That noise? That's what a 17.6-litre, air-cooled diesel V-12 sounds like.
Probably true, but it was RWD and based originally on a four-wheeled car. It would have been a reverse-trike like the Morgan had it been developed as a three-wheeler from the ground up.
Similar mention has to go to the Roadpacer. If there's anything that is a worse use for a rotary than powering a pickup truck, it's powering a 3500 lb. luxury sedan.
The rain gutter at the bottom of the windscreen on the Ford Galaxy. Now, to the American Jalops who think I'm talking about a 60s full-size Ford and can't spell- don't worry, this is a far worse car. It's a minivan that was produced as a joint venture with VW (also sold as the VW Sharan and SEAT Alhambra).
It can if you're not Jeremy Clarkson, and there was a very good reason why they made it with 3 wheels (it could be driven on a motorbike license).
The Italdesign Aztec. A twin-cockpit roadster with an Audi turbo-five powering it through the AWD system from a Lancia Delta Integrale. And it entered (very limited) production!
Also, the crews of the yachts can work on the bottom of the boat while it's out of the water.
I think the F-4s get used as remote-controlled targets (QF-4), don't they?
I imagine it's that each bathroom only goes to some storage tanks, and the storage tanks aren't connected as that would require running sewage pipe from one end of the plane to the other. So if only the bathrooms at the back are in use, and all the passengers are using them, the back storage tanks might overflow.
Wasn't the Crosley also the first American car with disc brakes?
But Northern Ireland is still on the island of Ireland- saying it isn't is like saying that Canada isn't part of North America because it's not part of the USA.