Fiat’s policy was to scrap all parts inventory for all cars 10 years after the last one was built.  Genuinely disposable cars, and deliberately so.

Very common in Mediterranean countries to arrest people in this sort of situation right away, pending initial enquiries. It’s a different legal system.

I was 100% NP until I spotted what looks like yellow paint overspray on the underside pic. Sadly, there may be a lot of recent Bondo in the rockers.  If not, then NP.

Hang on... Why do some states only permit Electricity usage to be charged based on time?  Even if this only applies to car charger usage it makes no sense at all.

The only real hurdles at this point are: 1. Idiots spreading misinformation. 2. Drivers requiring the ability to tow 3,500 lbs at all times even though they only actually need it 0.5% of the time.

Paint a big red cross on the side and sail it to Mariupol.  Carry Ukranian refugees to safety.  Then sink it.

The ADO16 was the biggest selling car in the UK for about 5 years - Brits stopped caring about them when significantly better (European or Japanese) or cheaper (Ford Escort) cars came along in the early 1970s

“I had a bad experience, so everything this manufacturer ever produced must be garbage”

Front license plate is off a red UK 2007 Audi A4

Yes, for serious speed, electric is the way to go. The UK Diesel fleet was only ever supposed to be a stop-gap, but successive governments since the 1960s have been avoiding spending the cash on electrification. Now they seem to want to waste billions on HS2, when the amount they want to spend would pretty much pay…

Not particularly difficult..  The British class 43s have been hitting 125mph about ten times a day for the last 40 years.  2,200 hp Diesel engine at each end, 10 passenger cars in the middle

Leaf-sprung Land Rovers have different spring rates left-to-right to compensate for the fact that the engine sits offcentre in the frame.  They were originally based on the wartime Jeep.  Epic project & journey by the way!

True enough. I think the important thing here is the ‘appropriate training’ bit. Pilots go through years of training, which continues throughout their working lives. Driver training and testing across the world is at best adequate, at worst laughable. When I took my test in Nova Scotia, I passed even though I made 3…

Errr... no. ABS, traction control & airbags are all active safety devices developed to compensate for a near-total lack of appropriate driver training. Airbags, especially, were developed because the majority of drivers were too completely stupid or lazy to fasten a seatbelt.

We had pretty much the same thing in the UK in 1967:

Nah... I think I still prefer their previous luxury SUV two-door.

This looks unfinished and pretty sketchy. I don’t know a lot about Jettas, but if you Google VR6 swaps, there’s usually a whole load of plumbing and wiring across the rear of the engine that this one doesn’t have. Also: strut tower brace missing, engine bay panels painted black, some strange sort of welded repair or…

Yeah, I think that many industries already have supply chain source verification that don’t involve blockchain. Wouldn’t it be more worthwhile to try and find ways of making resource-rich countries less corrupt?

Tesla and Pepsi can build as many Megacharging stations as they wish, but unless they can arrange a huge increase in electricity supply grid capacity with the Utility companies, there won’t be enough juice to go around.

It’s not the thinly-veiled shilling of products I object to, it’s the fact that the copy is total wank. Who reads this drivel? Every word is cliche.