Family parking serves a purpose, wider aisles to get car seats out and not ding other cars; done properly its for everyone’s benefit. Veteran spots? Not so much, and the cynic in me thinks its done for the marketing anyway (where I’m from you’d never overtly identify off-duty or ex military in that way anyway, makes…

This is really interesting. We could never work out why I sweat a lot more than either of my parents (it pours off me in hot climates), who both loved hot weather and I’ve always struggled with. They both grew up in rainy England, but we emigrated to South Africa shortly after I was born and lived there until I was…

Sooo...in the UK the Abarth version is £7000 ($10,000!!!) more expensive than the 2.0 MX-5, for eight extra horses and a dubious nose job.

They “do just fine” because EVs are relatively scarce; (Norway would literally be the only place where they are more than a single digit percentage of vehicles). It would be pretty much impossible to do a like for like replacement of ICE vehicles in most European countries without a massive change in the way cars are…

They were always going to lose a million viewers after the first week. Absolutely inevitable.

Wish they’d revealed the Sportback as well, its actually the bigger seller in Europe anyway.

Sheesh. Wooden, chemistry and charisma-free; I spent half the episode checking the time. The Nomad bit was OK I suppose, but the rest was painful.

You’re doing it wrong.

I figured that would be the primary reason, but if you compare the US to the UK, where nobody “buys off the lot” and pretty much every car is sold to order, the preponderance of monochrome is almost exactly the same (black, white, grey and silver accounted for 68% of cars sold in the UK in 2014); so it looks like it…

Seems odd given, a. The GC outsells the 2-door pretty much everywhere, and b. They're making that Supra thing with Toyota, which is much more likely to sit in 911 territory. Oh, and c. The i8.

Er, were you insured to take a Portuguese rental car into Spain? Also, Portugal is literally the most dangerous country for driving in the EU, so don’t take the place as a reference point for other EU countries.

The Pulsar has tanked (it was only there for fleet sales anyway), and Nissan has niche marketed its way into larger (X-Trail) and smaller (Juke) crossover segments proving the basic strategy has a lot of legs in it. I actually found it quite telling that Volvo showed a saloon (important for China) and crossover, and…

The Nissan Qashqai would suggest you’re wrong. Volvo may be making the calculation that they’re just not going to compete in the Golf/Focus space at all any more and can make more per unit with an Audi Q3 rival than an Audi A3 rival (which is certainly true for Audi themselves).

This. Governments of the left and right in Venezuela have ended up using oil money to shore up dysfunctional policies, but at root it’s because of corruption and cronyism on an epic scale; the tax base is abused on every other level so oil becomes the only regular revenue stream.

If you want Alfa to exist five years from now, yes, you really need to give a shit.

“A fancy department store called Harrods”. Seriously? You felt you had to describe Harrods?

Giant slaying for 50 years...

That picture is wrong. There is no ratty 1.0 Fiat Punto with mismatched doors sat two inches from its rear bumper; which is obligatory for all Italian cars at all speeds at all times, including police cars.

Actually lots of EU countries have reciprocal points arrangements these days.

And plenty of Chinese companies can make the same claim. They’ve already gone from building unbelievable crap to “export ready” in a decade. If anything they're way ahead of Honda were in 1970.