Yeah! Ukraine in low powered hatchbacks and Burma in modified trucks! That's my kind off Top Gear piece. I love travelling and, as much as the Top Gear road trips are more comedy than they are documentary, I still think they're among the best travel shows out there.

I'm curious. As an Englishman I have been led to believe that what I call crisps you (assuming you're American, of course) call chips. So what do you call crisps?

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I don't know how different the UK and US are in this regard but I literally don't know anyone who has a new (i.e not bought second hand) car. Not my wealthier friends, not my parents or my friends parents or my bosses or my landlord, literally nobody. My (late) grandfather went through a phase of buying new small…

Would you like to explain why it's not cool to touch peoples cars? I mean, I get that it's not cool to damage sometimes car, and I get why it's not cool to touch someone (unless they desire it), but touching a car seems, to me, completely harmless.

Definitely not a real Pret then. Unless American Pret is better than English Pret, which wouldn't surprise me.

That's incredible. I never knew that. Obviously I knew that the Model T introduced affordable motoring to the masses, but I never knew it was *that* affordable.

Pretty poor show from me there then! In my defence I'd only seen the video once and (although I have been to Australia and did love it's car culture) they (aside from the truck) are not vehicles I see on the roads in my neck of the woods. Am I right in saying that the Torana was both small and available with a V8? If…

Man they have some cool stuff on the roads in Australia. I'd need to watch the vids again with some heavy use of the pause button but I'm pretty sure we see a 70 Series Landcruiser and something old and Japanese there. To add to that I think they're in a Falcon ute. I need to watch it again on something bigger than my…

I grew up close to a number of airfields and military bases in the UK and because of that American cars driven by US Military were a fairly common sight on the roads, and especially down my street where many of them lived short term in rented houses. You'd see some pretty cool stuff, muscle cars, the odd 80's Caddy, I…

I'm no expert but am I the only one that thinks that this looks like too much wheel and not enough tire for heavy off road use? I'd be helluva concious of those big, expensive-looking alloys down there.

Bearing in mind that I have no specialist knowledge in photography and don't think of myself as arty in any way my tip is this: When photographing parked cars squat down. I don't know why this makes the photo look better but it virtually always does, to my eye at least.

Side note: I can remember years ago reading a Bill Bryson book where he road trips in a Chevy Nova (borrowed from his mother, if I remember correctly). Knowing at the time that Chevrolet was (like Vauxhall and Opel) a GM brand, but not knowing how rare small hatchbacks are in the US (at least when compared to the UK)…

That version was called the Opel Corsa in Europe. In the UK we didn't get the name Corsa until this replaced the Nova. It was called Corsa in both the UK and Europe.

I find this name nisleading for other reasons. Where I come from a Nova looks like this:

This is unbelievably dumb. We don't have dirt roads that go anywhere in England. There are some old, old unpaved routes that are, legally, still roads, but they are only used by hobby off roaders. Unless your destination is a wilderness area or possibly the odd remote farmhouse nobody actually needs to go off pavement…

This is a question that has troubled mankind for decades. The answer varies geographically but always involves converting a 4X4 van into a camper. I like the 3rd gen Mitsubishi Delica, although you've also got the Toyota Hiace and Lite Ace in 4X4 flavour. Aside from that where I am you're looking at either a 4X4…

My god that's a sweet ride, bravo. Was it really just a dead battery?

That's the thing, one of the few things I have a clear memory of is having a conversation about whether the taxi plates were real as we were walking over to him. They were definitely there