Anything with a prancing moose deserves respect, but why would you buy a Volvo which isn’t box-shaped? The contemporary V50 was amazing; it had the modern-ish styling, and was pretty reliable, but also had room for all your aspirational lifestyle luggage. Of course 99% of buyers chose their V50 with a frugal 1.6l…

There is still some potential for further upgrades to the name. If they released a Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Redeye Widebody R Turbo GT Elite CS, they could charge twice as much.

The UK vaccine rollout is divided into risk-based categories; there was some pretty good work early on, vaccinating lots of elderly people and healthcare workers, but this chap is under 40 and he can work from home and he’s probably not in any of the other high-risk categories, so he had a choice between waiting or…

Men definitely have it easier than women on the body-image front, but still, there’s a big difference between the muscles you see in the media versus the muscles that are achievable for a normal person who has better things to do with their life than hang around gyms and drink questionable protein shakes.

There’s no easy way to fix this. The American pickup truck market is driven by feature inflation; everybody likes to think they could tow 10 tons over an epic series of mountain passes, even though they actually drive one occupant for a few miles along nicely paved roads. Those aspirations determine the size and shape…

Probably the scariest close call happened in London in the 1990s; I was doing about 30mph downhill in a bus-and-taxi-and-bike lane, alongside some other cyclists, whilst there was a long queue of cars in the lane to my right. One of the car drivers suddenly decided to cheat, using the bus lane to get ahead. She didn’t…

too many car drivers suck ass at driving - bikes simply arent safe on public roads.

The wraparound triangular rear light cluster looks familiar...

This can be like the “worst drivers” question, where everybody says “But my state has the worst drivers!”.

If an adult uses about 50-100 rolls a year,

Don’t even think about renting a car!

What’s more, part-time flight attendants are not paid until the flight takes off; their job begins with a smile and a welcome before they are even on the clock.

The best surprises happen when you visit new places.

If they can also fit leaky window / door / sunroof seals, break the alternator, and bolt the seats into a position where you’ll never be comfortable, it would be the perfect retro Landie!

It’s good for another million miles. I love it.

Why reïnvent the wheel?

A tip for Whatsapp and some other messaging apps - if you’re sending status updates whilst travelling through the wilderness, Whatsapp timestamps them when they’re transmitted (when you have signal and your phone syncs), not when you type them.

Cheap S-class. Everything that breaks is an opportunity to learn how to fix it; a cheap S-class is the most educational car you could ever buy.

Geely controls both Lotus and the London EV Company. LEVC are a niche manufacturer who put an electric drivetrain inside a boxy body which vaguely resembles the oldfashioned London taxis; LEVCs are pretty popular as taxis but they struggle to expand beyond that market. (I see a lot of adverts for LEVC delivery vans…

Sadly the UK second-hand market has dwindled!