The cars look cheap because they have insane insurance/road tax costs. A hell of a lot of the cheap cars here cost more to insure and tax for a year than to buy.

Dude, this is Gawker. At least for once they haven’t said anything racist, just hyperbollocks.

You do realise that, other things being equal, four larger cylinders produce more torque than six smaller ones, right?

“Shitty thieves make it super obvious they’re trying to steal.”

Trinidad really isn’t that expensive to live in - earning US$20k a year there will give you a pretty decent lifestyle. Maybe you meant it’s hard to earn decent money there?

You know you’re just spouting Nazi propaganda, right? With no relation to reality, right?

You own a Nissan Pao and call other cars ‘meh’? It was a shitty outdated Micra when it was new, albeit with slightly unusual styling. It’s hard to think of anything more ‘meh’ than an eighties Nissan Micra.

The irony is that he’d be such a good fit in Nascar, given his racism. No idea why he gets a free ride round here despite being an ultra-nationalist racist who has repeatedly expressed his support for Spain’s far right.

It’s no surprise, Alonso’s famously a weapons-grade bell-end. His PR team works overtime to perpetuate the myth that he’s a top class driver, while every other driver detests him. This would be absolutely par for the course, except there is no report of a tantrum, racist outburst, or sabotaging of his team-mates.

Have a look at composites. You’d be surprised what can be done in the way of custom carbon fibre for not too much money, if you can build the moulds yourself. Other composites which don’t need baking are even more accessible.

No-one’s paying any money for this plate. Does it make you angry that Gawker have been paid to advertise regtransfers by repeating this nonsense about a fake sale, when they could give the money to charity? That would seem a slightly better thing to get upset about.

For deity’s sake, acknowledge this stuff as a paid ad. You’re not a journalist, you’re a copywriter. You’ve been paid by regtransfers to publicise their latest headline-grabbing fake sale.

$350k?! For the damage done to a car? Get real. Herzberg’s insurers won’t have paid Uber anything like that amount. (Or were you under the impression Uber would be paying, rather than receiving, the settlement? This is an open and shut case the other way, despite Gawker’s troll-y spin on it.)

These kinds of things are often settled very quickly where the facts are clear. In this case I’d imagine the deceased’s insurers were only too delighted to settle quickly for the cost of the damage to the car, and Uber were happy to accept that kind of amount.

Whoever clicked ‘NP’, I’ll sell you one, delivered in the US, for half that. It’s a <£3k car, shipping isn’t that much.

Belts are more likely to slip/break than chains, but if they do, the damage is less likely to be utterly catastrophic - when you have the strength of a chain and the momentum of an engine whirring round, if you stop one of the moving parts by bashing it into another of them, it has to either shear off e.g. a piston,…

Police are often dicks, but I have to say that sounds like exactly what those powers were intended for. If you’re a polite, mature, reasonable adult they’d probably let you off the speeding. If you’re a boy racer who gets angry with them, they’ll find a way to ban you.

Your little conspiracy-theory based rant about ‘corporations’ is nonsense. Your government made a law that costs consumers money. The car manufacturers pointing out the cheapest way to comply is not them ‘rooking’ you. The ‘ebil jooz’ running the world is just a Nazi conspiracy theory.

It’s Australia. If you’re 100s of miles from the nearest town when it blows...

That’s what you picked up on? I’m more wondering how fast that bridge rises, that the guy on it didn’t have time to stop and reverse instead of jumping the gap?