What’s throwing me is that this is an early Mk4 cluster, but the car is a Mk5, which has a different design of cluster.

So, my speculation on the problems with the W8:

It is worth noting that not long after, the Audi 4.2 V8 was redesigned to use timing chains, and then it just barely fit in the B6 Audi S4/RS4 (which, IIRC, was a mild update of essentially the same platform).

Over there, as I understand, a 2 liter engine is big, a 3 liter is massive, and a 4.5 liter is unthinkably huge.

So then we get into the whole definition of “Atkinson” and “Miller” cycle.

I think it was discovered that the hood area was actually meant for a range extending engine and an air conditioner, hence it not having a trunk?

Oh, damn, congrats on making it to the FP. (I was visiting Jalopnik less and less myself, but... might have to check more often.)

Evidence of the seam still exists in the US market. I give you the Ram ProMaster 3500 159" WB EXT:

Not under the NHS specifically, but the UK does have a mobility component of their Personal Independence Payment, and then there’s a charity, Motability, that applies that towards wheelchair-accessible vehicles.

TBH Harley probably just used a transflective LCD and didn’t care if they had to run an ever so slightly larger 12 volt inverter to power the backlight when backlighting was needed in low-light conditions, especially as it would’ve all been a clean-sheet design.

One thing with color LCD is that it’s a lot harder to make readable in bright conditions - the color layer takes 1/4 to 1/3 of your backlight power away, which translates to more backlight power, and if you’re fighting full sun, that might actually be notable alternator load on a 125 cc bike.

In Chinese and (for one of the forms of four borrowed from Chinese) Japanese and Korean, “four” and “death” are either near homophones or homophones.

What about NEDC, though, where it really matters for their home market’s compliance?

The problem isn’t being wide enough (although that’s sometimes a problem too).

Except people driving cars and people walking on sidewalks don’t expect bicycle-speed things there, which causes dangerous conflicts for everyone involved, especially because there’s already not enough sidewalk space in most cities.

A lot of bicycle lanes are incredibly dangerously set up, though, and the safer option is to not use them.

If I had to guess from the description, it was something like the idiotic design that US infrastructure sometimes has where people driving cars have to cross the bike lane at a shallow angle to enter the right turn lane, and the person on the bicycle was trying to avoid getting right hooked by just going into the…

Note that there’s actual map lights.

Note that there’s actual map lights.

Because they’ll find financing for anyone... and the kinds of dealers that do that are the kinds that do the shadiest shit.