So you haven't heard of Curtis LeMay, then. I suggest that if you want to pretend to a credible opinion on the topic, you need to do a bit more reading. In the mid-fifties he was calling for the US to launch an unprovoked strike on the Russians 'before it's too late'. He was head of SAC at the time, and one of the key…

My uncle bought one and had it fixed up. I suspect that fixing it from a completely non-running state doesn't cost any more than keeping a better (but not perfect) one going - because you're going to end up with a full rebuild anyway, even if it happens incrementally as you fix what's gone wrong :)

Nonsense. It has nothing to do with incentives, because only sane people respond to incentives. By definition anyone who would start a nuclear war on what they perceived to be rational grounds is insane. There's no doubt that there were those on the US side calling for a pre-emptive strike in the mid-fifties - that's…

Fair enough - not criticising here, just wondering. What you describe where the pizza's delivered along with the parcels and stuff sounds really odd to me. Doesn't the pizza get cold?

Strikes me that unless you're getting paid for the wear and tear on the car, you'd be better off getting minimum wage in a job that didn't need the car.

Any relation to Oswald?

You may think the US was unlikely to strike pre-emptively, but that's not a view shared by the entire world. Less likely to do so than the Soviets? Probably. By a lot? Probably not.

Snow, I understand. Not so sure about the territory-size thing, though - how does a car win over a bike there? I think your last point is actually the answer; I hadn't realised anyone would put up with that. Who insures the vehicles and so-on? Do the pizza guys get mileage? Servicing? Or is it quite well paid to…

Winter, sure, makes sense, but apart from that? Distance? Surely you can't deliver a pizza twenty miles whatever vehicle you use? And isn't a bike just as quick as a car? And how many deliveries do they take at once that a bike can't take them? I've seen pizza guys here with 8 or 10 together, and they could easily…

London - but not the rubbish touristy one in the centre of town that variants of keep getting proposed - you know, Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square, and bugger the racing.

You'd really need to do a blind test to be sure - don't discount the possibility of observer bias, because of course no-one wants to feel a fool for buying premium (and everyone wants to save money), so everyone wants to see it work.

Why don't you use bikes to deliver pizza, like most places in the world?

CVTs generally aren't done quite right, for a few reasons. All this stuff with fake gears and so-on is just because people aren't ready to accept a proper CVT setup. To be fair, it would sound and feel completely different to anything else on the market.

"How do they f**ing work?"

You know that these days, rather depressingly, it's increasingly tending to be the other way around? Automatics are in many cases the option which gives better fuel economy. And if fuel economy is your only concern, your best bet is a CVT combined with tuning the engine for maximum efficiency in a very narrow rev…

Drive downhill.

Can anyone explain the point of drifting to me? I don't get it. It's not faster than driving properly, or harder - a different skill - and it seems to waste tyres. Why do it?

That would make quite a good race.

Isn't this thing the Springtime for Hitler of the automotive world? I can't believe no-one's in jail yet. Funny how it keeps crashing, isn't it?

I think you meant: