And you’d be wrong. My buddy, my age, got pulled over driving a loud civic coming back from the track. Cop checked his license and let him drive off with his illegal exhaust. Because he was old and white. How many oldsters are driving around with non-stock loud exhausts on their Harley’s while the cops look the other…

Around here it tends to be all the cars that use high beams for DRL’s. So these morons are driving around with high beams on and no taillights.

Close, it’s a Bond Bug.

Sounds more like a BMW service advisor...

Clarkson said they tinkered with the differential but coming from him that could mean anything. 

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Agreed. Also Overlanding:

I *regularly* see people driving around after dark with no headlights on. Not even DRLs, just nothing. How they manage to survive the day without choking to death on their own tongues, I have no idea. I try to give them a flick of my highbeams to remind them to turn on their lights, because apparently not being able…

Dude, people can barely put their lights on when it’s dark FFS. Even in this age of almost every car coming with automatic headlights.

Putting your headlights on when it’s raining is a genuinely good idea, though. Visibility is worse, stopping distances are longer—why wouldn’t you want other drivers to be able to see you easily?

As far as I can tell overlanding is just car camping for people who drive ridiculously outfitted SUVs at about 25% of their capability. Parking their lifted, light barred, Tacoma with a tent mounted on top next to the family of 4's Sienna at the local KOA.

the state legislature passed a law requiring drivers to turn the headlights on whenever they used their windshield wipers. 

The second gen Cruze sedan has a spot for amber rear indicators but uses one of the brake lights instead. The hatch has the amber indicators though. It’s strange lol

Its theoretically possible but IIRC from first year engineering steel requires a pretty precise amount of carbon in the mix to give good mechanical properties: not enough and it’s soft, too much and it’s brittle. You also need some other trace elements like chromium etc.

It sure seems like that poor quality cast iron and wrought iron could be made into decent steel by the Bessemer process or more modern means. In so doing, high quality product material is possible.

I must commend you on your use of Roman numerals in a place that did not clearly call for them. I believe people like you are doing good work to make sure that even the youngest generation of Jalopnik readers know about Roman numerals.

What I find amazing is that all sale and production of civilian vehicles was stopped cold in Feb. of ‘42. Apparently, there was a stockpile of about half a million new cars, but you had to get special dispensation as an essential driver to get one. No new cars at all were made or available until the war finished…

Russian cannons from the Crimean war, so you’re a century off.

You’d be surprised how much Victorian infrastructure is still alive and kicking - that stuff was literally built like a brick outhouse...

Britain is missing most its Victoria era cast iron railings for this reason: if you walk around, plenty of places like parks have low stone walls were you can see the stumps of the bars still embedded or its been capped with a bit of crappy cement.