Whoever was the guy in the background I could hear during a bit of helicopter footage half way through going “neeeooow” as the cars went through shot.

Best car ad is Honda’s one for the mid-’00s Accord.

It’s a similar thing, 2 weeks iirc.

Car parks that aren’t public road still require the car to be road-legal. Sounds like he’d parked it in a residential car park and got the tax refunded without realising that.

If they’d done it right, he’d have got home and found a fine stuck on the windscreen, instead of being…

No, but they’re keeping questionable off-licences that don’t ask for ID from being driven under by Tesco.

Lotus don’t have a DCT gearbox, it’s a conventional auto.

That’s the number being imported into the UK

ooh, cool. Thanks.

Build quality is usually pretty good, fuel economy is geared around being very efficient at 60mph and below.
Space utilisation is absurdly good, but can’t break the laws of physics that let me press the passenger electric window controls from the drivers seat.

I don’t know whether it’s technically supposed to get them…

There’s a lot of ones where they’ve passed European crash safety regulations. Usually not with amazing scores (eg. the new Jimny getting 3/5), but they’re okay.
There’s been quite a few over the years, mostly that have an export spec with a larger engine - mostly Daihatsu and Suzuki.

If Smart cars pass in the US, then…

They’re rebadged Suzukis.

A colloquial term referring to conversations of the format:
“Oh, look, an A!”
“Actually, it’s a B”

Nice photos.

“Whoever owns this Polo GTI gave it a pretty sweet two-tone paint scheme here.” It’s a Gol, no?

Point the wipers up at night so they don’t freeze to the windscreen.

The A-Pillar’s distorted in the offset test, which is pretty rare these days.

It’s a nice car, pushed one badge too far. If it’d been a Buick Regal, everyone would remember it fondly, except one person complaining it wasn’t the 3.8 and it should have been a Commodore.

Nah, the A was the VN/VP/VS, the B was the VT/VX/VY/VZ.

You mean the Ford Focus refresh of the first gen instead of the international second generation model, featuring the CVH engine that was discontinued in other markets for being terrible in the mid ‘90s before the first Focus even came out?
‘Any’ is an exaggeration, but there’s clearly a lot of half-baked products from…

Piece of shit, or piece of meh, though?

Ah, yeah, forgot that one.
Either way, I love the 33, the 14x and the 155, 156 as FWD.

Nah, the Sud, 33, 14x, 155/156 are great FWD cars.