A Ford Edge i actually 11 cm longer, 17 cm wider and 29cm higher than a Volvo 850/V70. You are probably referring to a later generation V70, which has not much more space inside than the old ones actually. They only got wider on the sides, but do not have much more space inside.

Part of that comes from having the…

All those extremely huge cars might work in the US (and not in all towns there either) but in Europe you would not get into many parking spaces with a Ford Edge.
Spoiler: A Volvo 850 is about as long and wide as you can fit into most parking lots or underground carparks here, especially if they were built before the 200…

Get a German house.
You will probably not notice if the truck hits it, but thats because it will at most dislodge a few bricks from the outer wall.
And it even still works for a bigger truck:

That’s not a house... I know treehouses built for kids that are sturdier!
You couldn’t even put a waterbed on the first floor with one of those.
You couldn’t even put Estrich (no direct translation in english, screed as a material comes close) on the floor for insulation - it would collapse under the weight.
Hilarious!

depends. Slower cars can “feel” much quicker than they are.
Ever driven an old Miata? The 90hp Euro facelift-model can accelerate pretty quick off the line, you slam in the gears - second - third - look at the speedo: Oh, only 60km/h?
It makes a nice noise, and the wind in your face gives you a completely different…

When I finished my last year of Gymnasium in Germany, I was driving a Fiesta XR2i 16V. One day, a friend of our family gave me a call: “You like fast Fords, come and take a look at what’s in my garage right now”
He made a hobby out of buying totaled cars, restoring them, driving them for a bit and then selling them.…

Actually, since most people in China obey their government blindly, they have a huge instrument to go after climate offenders.

Meanwhile the heads of states and their secretaries in other civilized coutries drive in a single Limousine, the secretaries sometimes even driving themselves.
Why does everything have to be that extremely over-dramaticized in the US? No really, what kind of signal does such a motorcade send out apart from “do try, we…

The Volvos before that one were. My 850T5 went 300.000km on its first Turbo, and it was driven hard and modded to well over 270hp.
My 850R was also in that ballpark.

I also found the P2 platform to be better than people give it credit for. Sure, it suffered from some Ford-ism, when Ford would just pull technology out of…

It is. I am often wrenching on a 996, the first really mass produced model where they had to cut costs. And you know what? Even though it has been driven all year round, almost none of the screws are rusted, nothing is loose, nothing rattles inside the cabin, the leather is still fine apart from very few wrinkles, the…

The Taycan is not a Model S competitor. It destroys it on many levels.
P.ex. yes, the P100D is faster from 0-60mph. Once. The Porsche can do a few dozen consecutive 0-135mph runs without pause or overheating and still has juice to roll on.
The Porsche will also not throttle down the vmax on long Autobahn cruises (folks…

I count it as a nod to Douglas Adams and his Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
In the second book, The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe, the protagonists steal a ship that is so black that... well:

The miata is not underpowered at all.
It is a lightweight fun toy to throw around corners and just exactly right the way it is.
Even the 90hp NA facelift base model ist lots of fun. Just put some skinny tyres on (preferable 175/14), and anyone can have a go at a predictable drift practice machine that doesn’t want to…

No, the Grandpa was the P1800ES, the dad was the Volvo 480ES.

What Volvo actually ended up building in the mid-80s was the Volvo 480. A 2+2 seater coupe with pop-up headlights, onboard-computer, electronics control module, bulb failure guard, light-up keyhole in door and ignition lock, optional 4 cupholders in armrest, individually adjustable backrests for the rear seats, lumbar…

The problem with the NA and NB (also NBFL) is: rust.
The wheel arches and sills are one thin, nothing a lot of new metal and good corrosion prevention can’t fix.
But the NB especially got reinforced front beams holdin the engine, consisting of two sheets of metal - rust starts inbetween, when you see some on the outside…

Epic has been a bad company for years, not only before opening their store. The deals they made on their engine sometimes really suck, that’s where they make their money, and it is not that different from using Steam to sell your game. They will get your money as a dev anyway, if you are using their engine, or if you…

Not really. Almost no games used WinCE as an underpinning (Sega Rally p.ex.), because it hurt performance and memory.
But in theory they could, it was supposed to make porting older PC titles easier. But, well, erm... nope.

I had the Cada C61001 in mind, but the one that really goes fast is not from Cada, but Qihui 9801 - Storm of the desert.
And it zooms:

I do not think that is entirely true. I know a lot of young kids who play Fortnite on their PS4, yet they run outside happily if the weather is good and somebody has brought a soccer ball.
The money thing is what irks me, these sets are expensive a.f. and in terms of quality not a bit better than those from…