That's exactly what it was. Oddly enough, after I got rid of the 18 I bought a Dacia Denem, my first new car. The Denem was a Romanian built Renault 12. A terrible car, but I felt right at home in it. 

The Jeep is a rusty piece of scrap metal. Let it rust in pieces or haul it to a recycler.

My second car was a Renault 18. My introduction to central locking, headlight wipers and electric windows. The seats were pretty good too. Nice cars, especially for a comfort loving 21 year old. 

I use Sygic on my smartphone. It uses TomTom data, has more beautiful maps, a better interface, gives more information and works worldwide with offline maps. When online I get a load more info about road conditions, speeding cameras, parking, gas prices, faster routes and stuff I didn’t think of.

When I buy software I understand that it has been tested and that bugs may still remain.

That place still makes those engines, or rather their successors, and Lucas were very busy during WW2.

What do you buy? British flags? As a Briton, I’d be hard-pressed to think of anything recently (in the last 3 decades or so) that made a point of its ‘Britishness’ apart from some tea brands, which as we all know, comes from outside the UK.

Who is Tracy Morgan? Is she some kind of car fan? 

Equipped for the possibility of future full self-driving and currently equipped for some driver assistance.

Given the way that humans work, it would be helpful to include a list of the things the system does not do.

I was watching some videos made in Britain by a Tesla owner and enthusiast. He was demonstrating navigate on autopilot. What he showed me scared the shit out of me - and, from his reactions to some stuff, him!

A long time ago, a friend described shrimp as sea cockroaches. When I next saw a shrimp I decided to not eat it. It took me perhaps 20 years or so to eat one again. These days, I enjoy the taste but still have to recoil for just a moment before eating one.

No, it’ll be the flies on the windows that do it. Oh, so many flies.

That actually makes a heap of sense. Even the pics on the rowing machine, going along with mum’s ‘thing’. In her life she will, I am sure, have had lots of pics taken to illustrate a fantasy life. But even if she did know what was going on, in the context of her experience of life, in a gilded environment, she’d be…

If I was picking up $10 per room per day plus wages there’s no way I’d be leaving!

Not cynical, realistic. Her parents have depth-charged her career.

The companies that pay her don’t care as long as they see the value from their expenditures. Vendors can track this stuff so they know the ROI.

For some reason Russians always use this style. Typically absolutely deadpan in Russian with the original language underneath. I did wonder whether this was to allow viewers to pick up emotional cues from the original actor's voices. 

?You don’t have to use it. You have a choice. Would you deny that choice to others to suit your own preferences?

That piece of glass in the VW is tiny. Looks smaller than the plastic in other convertibles, certainly so in relative terms. Plastic was pretty easy to change when needed but was, for sure, widely used in times when road conditions were very different from today.