I’m old(ish) and grew up in England when this was a truck.

Plus there’s the plumbing behind those taps.

Indeed. I’d put money that he typed that on a PC, derived from the IBM PC, IBM being the company that tabulated the holocaust.

YES YES YES! It drives me absolutely crazy too. There should be a whole gamut of forbidden noises on the radio, vehicle noises, alarms, common phone notification sounds, just for starters.

Seconded. Give me a clue as to what this might be, don’t just sound the same alarm for everything. Although seems to have been less of an issue for Euro spec cars.

I used to live in Farnborough, where the Royal Aircraft Establishment did the testing to find out why Comets were breaking up mid flight. To simulate presurisation and depresurisation cycles, they built a tank around an airframe with the wings sticking out and and filled then emptied the tank repeatedly. Eventually…

When my brother was training in the police, the Sargent he was with in the car looked over at a particularly crappy car and spotted no tax disk - the UK road tax system required that you display a disk in the windscreen. Quoting the then well known quiz show Mastermind, Sarge said “no tax, that’s your starter for ten”.

Agreed. I also have a soft spot for the 262c, for its ridiculous Nordic pimp.

Sadly, this type of thing is quite common.

Here’s the UK web page, prices include VAT @20%.

Here’s an idea for vehicle control, a Hoberman sphere. Expand to go right, contract to go left, much easier and more intuitive that a silly wheel. What’s better you get a change in speed as you change the size, awesome!

This deserves more stars. It’s easy to imagine it’s all about convenience or preference, but it’s also about what works in the car. Larger engines and lower fuel costs really play into making automatic gearboxes a viable option.

As well as Cé hé sin’s points below, there’s the issue of engine size. Generally in the UK your average car is somewhere between 1.2-2 liters, four pot inline. This means that you want as much of that power as possible making it to the wheels as you don’t have power and torque to spare, manuals tend to have an…

WRT string straight up, if you’re in a flat spin you’re generally not going out to see. Can’t remember which of Ward Carroll’s videos it’s addressed in. Also note, for a guy who takes his military flying seriously, he’s always got a big grin on his face when he talks about Top Gun.

Excellent advice from you and 4Jim. One of my dogs has hypothyroidism and requires daily medication for it. As well as the filled calendar pill box, we keep an extra blister pack of her medication in the dogs’ luggage.

Finnish resident here. Yes, we have outlets for block heaters in a lot of places, usually 230V 13-16A, which will do for charging an EV. Problem is all the ones I’ve come across are on timers. You set a turn-on time for your dumb block heater / interior electric heater, then the outlet timer turns on the power for two…

It can create niches in the market, that some places are happy to fill. Bramley Motors https://www.bramley.com/ used to always have highly desirable cars with delivery mileage on them around the turn of the millennium. It seems they had a good relationship with some local high-end dealers, would order a car in a easy…

“It can be a PITA to turn the small knob with gloves on, in the cold, or when they get oil/grease on them, so the eye bolt gives you something to turn.”

I have yet to find an object that cannot be improved with the addition of googly eye(s).