I had the poor cousin, a CX500 Eurosport, which I attempted to put to death in the traditional fashion - dispatch riding around London. To be fair I wasn’t dispatch riding, I was doing computer support, but the effect on the bike was similar. Never a bike I loved, but I grew to respect it for its Lazarus like nature,…

Extrapolating, this would make an old Unimog with crawler gears and PTOs completely unstealable.

My ex had a fourth gen Polo that was astonishingly noisy in the back. It was near impossible to listen to a conversation anyone was having in the front.

I love dogs, but I’m not sure I want to meet the one that lives in that dog house.

You’re right about isopropyl alcohol, it’s also really bad for your eyes. I got repeated epithelial keratitis from exposure to it, we were using it at work in an aerosol bottle. My eyes are now very sensitive to it and get bloodshot at very low exposures. They also feel dry a lot. Read and follow the safety informatio…

I’d be embarrassed to turn up in all manner of silly supercars. The idea of having to shout over a droning engine and the staccato patter of rocks bouncing off a carbon fibre monocoque is just crap.

I wish I could give this more stars. Just as another point about the how “socialists” countries are so bad. I went to a private dentist this morning, got an X-ray and a tooth reshaped a bit. 50€ thank you very much. The government pays a small proportion of that as I wasn’t using their healthcare system.

Could be worse, you could have paid 10,000 bitcoin for pizza.

To which I’ll add that’s a European forever, which is probably different from an US one. Central and Norther Europe sees cars eaten by rust and winter, then off the road due to inspection failure. I have less knowledge of southern Europe, but I suspect everything falls apart due to incessant bump-parking.

Great comment, thank you. There seems to be myth in the US that an oil change and tire rotation is a service, whereas my experience in Europe is customers expect the entire service schedule to be done. If you stick to the service schedule, your should be good, skip stuff at your own risk.

Similar to the situation with the Toyota MR2 in France, it sounds an awful lot like “merde”.

We used to have the KKK market here in Finland, it’s just the one K now.

That’s a good point, thinking about it. it’s predominately a move for the passenger. Hope you’re OK and that insurance works the way its supposed to.

I doubt I’ll ever be in a vehicle with a four or five point harness, but I watch a lot of dashcam stuff. I’ve got into the habit - learned from one of the Dirt Every Day guys - to cross my hands over my chest and grab the non-existent harness whenever stuff look like its going the wrong way up.

How to correctly use a water bottle and level two autonomy:

Saw this variant on a Volvo wagon recently:

Interesting that you mention that, I was watching this video and was surprised at how many of them had the small keyhole in the front bumper.

Agreed. I was a casual F1 Fan around the turn of the millennium and one thing I worked out about Mr. Williams was that the picture you see at the top of the article was his “someone has a camera on me instead of the race” face. He gave you the distinct impression that he was there for the racing and he thought everyone…

Last time I got together with my family I managed to steer the conversation to trans-rectal prostate simulation in elephants. I think that makes me the weird uncle, I’ve certainly been going for “long-lost” for some time.

I think the cabin crew should be issued with a stack of these stickers, so they can put them on the back of obnoxious passengers as they leave, for the attention of the TSA or other relevant authority.