Hmmmmm, Speck! Lass mal fress'n! *Oom Nom Nom Nom*

In European countries that suffered under the Muslim yoke, pork is as much a symbol of prosperity as it is in China. Such is the case of Hungary (under the Turks for a couple centuries, IIRC) or Spain (under the Moors for far too long).

Beats my own idea to open an Americana store called "Effingham Erica".

And the Germans. Even the Audi A1 has an ocean of black plastic in the place of the dashboard.

"Effingham". They couldn't help putting a minced oath in the name, could they?

And that, Mr. President, is why the Taoiseach doesn't roll in a ridiculous limousine.

The A2. It developed a bad rep in Spain because of that. But right now there's a Qashqai and Juke craze which means people don't care about that any longer.

It is not at all uncommon in truck and bus Diesel engines, especially in modular families of engines like this one. Even the Euro-market Jeep Grand Cherokee had a VM Motori with that layout. Which was just as well because it blew head gaskets like crazy.

I don't say that the 2.2 iCTDI is a bad engine. I just say that the petrol Honda engines are much better.

IIRC, the 5.9 was the 6BT, which is just adding 2 cylinders on the 4BT. The B engine was a modular engine. So yes, the original 5.9 also had them.

Great mindset for an infantryman, not so good for an aeronautical engineer like myself.

The car. On itself. If you take a bend too quickly. See "elk test".

Yes, what came from the US (the design, the engineering and the Slant-6 in the petrol version) was quite good. Only the original Spanish items (Barreiros Diesel engine, 1st-gen radial tyres) were crap.

...rolls at the drop of a hat.

It's a little econobox made by VW. Which means short wheelbase and hard suspensions (at least compared to the French equivalents). Coupled with inaccurate steering, because if it is too direct you might feel some kind of driving joy in a little car, which is unglaublich und unmöglich, you haff to buy ze Golf fo' zat.

Your concept of "comfortable" and "safe" isn't the same as mine.

No. It will run on fuel designed for Diesel engines, but it doesn't run on a Diesel engine.

It's not a Diesel, since being turbine-powered it uses a Brayton cycle. It can use Diesel fuel, but the fuel is named after the cycle of reciprocating-piston constant-pressure ignition (itself named after dr. Rudolf Diesel).

This Nissan Patrol?

Anything with gear-driven camshafts is automatically Good. Anything with individual cylinder heads is also Good. Even if it's a Diesel.