I don't know, some of the pursuit cars in the UK are petrol. The everyday patrol cars are all diesel, though.

The British police seem OK with them- maybe it's because they don't tend to carry guns? They do still have a lot of crap on their belts, though.

Tips for driving on snow:

And his name is "Dumb Wreck"- nominative determinism at work here?

Not to mention the Seabiscuit Hummer (with some absurdly powerful engine to keep up with a racehorse's acceleration), or the chassis bucks based on an Eldorado drivetrain with the 500cid V-8.

AMG Eagle Wagon? There is some alternative universe where the DaimlerChrysler tie-up produced this, and it was beautiful.

Yes, I never put car keys on my keyring with the house keys, because the house key keyring has several big keys and a lot of other crap (memory stick, Leatherman) that I don't want dangling from the ignition while I drive. On the other hand, the FIAT 500 has one key for the ignition and one for each door (gas cap is…

"No more than one key on the keyring"- so do you need to carry several keyrings if you have an older car where you need different keys for doors and ignition?

2.0 and 1.1- this means that the car actually has a 2-litre engine, but is registered (the "logbook" is a car's registration document) as only having a 1.1-litre engine as cars with smaller engines are cheaper to insure and often pay less tax. This is obviously illegal, but certain unscrupulous individuals don't…

"2.0 but logbook says 1.1". Means the owner was a chavvy kid who wanted a fast car but didn't want to pay the tax or insurance for one, so decided to commit fraud instead (and assumes you will as well). As well as being hell to sort out the paperwork, the car will probably have an amateurish engine swap and various…

I have heard that the total value of insurance claims made by men and women is equal- men make fewer claims, but those they do make are of higher value as they're less likely to be involved in parking-lot shunts but more likely to total a car in a high-speed crash.

It's a Citroen. They haven't made a RWD car since 1936. A RWD Citroen would be like a V6 BMW.

Really? I think the XM certainly counts, the Xantia Activa has enough weirdness to count, and the C6 may be a return to old-fashioned Big Citroens. With the death of the 607, the biggest and most luxurious car PSA make currently has a Citroen badge, and the DS6/DS9/whatever will be a welcome addition.

Well, on the British driving test you have to know how to check things like oil and fluid levels and tyre pressure and condition. The examiner asks you about it- 2 randomly chosen questions from a long-ish list, some of which involve opening the hood to point out where you'd look.

It's another way of saying that AWD doesn't make you stop better.

So true- we had guests fail to turn up for dinner (and have to spend the night in a motel) because they put gasoline in their diesel rental car...

In other words: every car made since the 1920s has had four wheel brakes.

The last time I was in a carpool lane, I got stuck behind a Buick driving at 20 below the speed limit with blue hair just visible over the passenger seat and no visible driver. It was separated from the main road, so we couldn't pass them and were stuck behind them for 12 miles.

Of course, the Chauffeur has to drive her around in that car.

The big problem with unrestricted F1 is that it would be boring. Yes, that's right, boring. With modern aero, it's entirely possibly to build a car that actually cannot be passed because of the dirty air behind it. The racing would have to be time-attack.