9' x 18' is roughly 2.74m x 5.49m. UK standard is 2.4m x 4.8m (~7'10.5" x 15'9"). So, in the US you’ve got roughly 3.5m^2 (11.5 sq.ft) more space in your smallest parking spots, if you wonder why Europeans so prefer smaller cars.

I really don’t get the three-row thing. First off, that’s too much for a “sporty” vehicle, which is probably why they’ve hidden some in the press photos. But more specifically, why you need to do the two-door-shuffle to get at the third row. Just have a gap and a sliding door, like a van.

The patent is 2018/0147918 A1

I’m a diehard manual fan, and I agree. With how few Americans can drive a standard, adding a DCT option would have improved US sales considerably, I reckon.

Having lived in the US and the UK, you don’t know how good you have it here. In the past two years in the UK, I’ve only seen one accident happen in person, which used to be a monthly occurrence in Arizona.

He’s not a comfortable host, either. You’ll notice he sets up all his shows so the producers ask him questions and he answers, because he can’t memorise scripts. But, he is an interesting character, and usually game for whatever challenge he’s been set.

I drive a 3-door Up. I’ve fit 4 adults over 6' in there quite comfortably. I probably wouldn’t want to go for a very long roadtrip, but an hour or two is very doable.

For the truly technically-challenged like myself: an engine need three things to run - fuel, air, and spark. Since it would run on starting fluid (an aerosol can of liquid that’s more flammable than gasoline), the spark was fine. So, DT next suspected the fuel was to blame. Since there’s fuel and air getting to the…

Muji’s great for stationary stuff - I always pick up some of their pens & notepads when I pass one, for less than £1 you can’t go wrong.

When my first car was on its last legs, my parents offered to loan me some money to buy a new one. The two cars we looked at were a blue `69 Mustang Sportsroof, and a silver `01 Malibu. Guess which one they were willing to pay for?

Basically this comic, but for cars.

The US broadcast networks also started loosening restrictions on liquor advertising. Used to be, they’d only be allowed on cable networks, but NBC/ABC/CBS started allowing liquor adverts during their late-night shows around 2012, and are now relaxing the rules about liquor advertising in the NFL.

The DB10 (the sam mendes one) had those same styled vents, so it’s not the first time Aston’s made that reference.

The front, particularly. It looks like they took the front end of a Phantom, and bolted the bottom half of a Flex underneath.

Throw down a bin liner first - it’s a good thing to carry, takes no room, and it can clean up after small children have been in the car, or be an emergency tarp / poncho if you get caught out.

ADAC Germany covers the whole of Europe - surprised VW wouldn’t just have a fleet account to send a bloke with a van out immediately.

I’ve moved house with the up - the spare is under the boot floor, but there’s a false floor above that, level with the back of the rear seats. It’s surprisingly cavernous back there. I know that on some trims they’ve ditched the spare for an inflator and a tin of goop, and there’s a silly subwoofer option you can fit…

I know this area very well, my office was just off Hearthstone Way. What you said is true, but a lot of people come off the 101 very fast too, which I’m sure this guy did, since there’s not much of interest in this direction between the edge of the mall and Rural.

Very true. I commute to work outside London, but my wife doesn’t drive here, and doesn’t need to. When we lived in Phoenix, giving up one of our two cars for a service meant a complex series of drop-offs and car-swaps. My 20-minute commute there would have been over 3 hours on the city buses, which is far from ideal.

It could also be a clutchless semi-auto; he’d need to know when to shift, which automatic-only drivers likely wouldn’t.