Essex is to London what Jersey is to New York. The North of England is much the like the South of the US. Full of weird, loud poor people with strange accents and a conservative mindset.

I disagree, bare bones cars are the pure essence of motoring. I had a Skoda Estelle 105S that had absolutely nothing that it didn’t need. It even had fabric door pulls.

Please tell me you are compiling all your VW weirdness and will, one day, produce a book?

A little harder to find in North America but I would strongly recommend a jar of Marmite be added to your kitchen stock.

It makes me wish there were more trains

Witcher 3, if I can get over the nausea it seems to induce

It’s not American though

The Renault 25 was more of a BMW 5 Series competitor as it was Renault’s range topper at the time

Alfa took the lovely 155 and biege-ified it to create the 159

There is a bar with a barbershop not far from my office. I can assure you the range of beer infused mustache wax, and mustache wax infused beer for sale in the establishment confirms Vancouver’s hipster credentials.

I know, I said it was written by Prince ;)

Written by Prince with Melle Mel doing the rap as well.

Mazda CX-5, simple really. Fun, roomy, great trunk space and more importantly you won’t have to bend down to get the kids in and out of the car.

Oh Vancouver is quite hipsterific

It’s 200 spares cars to keep the 100 in storage in the road. I’ve seen worse than many of these restored as well. All depends on how rare and badly someone wants the vehicle.

Incorrect, Haida Gwaii is the wettest part of Canada. Plus the car collection is near Salmon Arm which is neither on the island or Haida.

Very true

Not applicable to this part of Canada

Not as much as if they were from the Prairies or out east. He’s located near Salmon Arm so there is more snow, and therefore salt, than in the lower mainland but still it could be much worse.

If they’ve not been in the road for years then there will be little salt corrosion issues. Plus it depends on where the cars originated from. If they came from the Vancouver or Vancouver Island area they will be no worse than if the car had been bought from Seattle or Portland.