The Metris is a conventional panel van with seats thrown in. It’s not designed as a people carrier, it is designed to carry a load. That’s the main difference.

Of the many stupid things I've read today, this tops the list.

The early XMs had some electrical gremlins. Later ones were much better, and when kept up will be reliable daily driver material. This does not mean they will be cheap to own, a Corolla it is not. They are 20-31 year old high end cars.

The problem is finding one of those LHD versions. I live in Europe and I remember seeing these cars... In the 90s. The last one I remember seeing was in ~2010, and it was in a junkyard. It was mostly rust brown, yet the paint was silver. It's why there are so few survivors left; rust. It's relatively easy to find a VW…

Are you expecting a zombie horde? An invasion of killers going door to door? It sounds a bit... Paranoid.

Sure, just like hamstering a truckload of toilet paper is allowed. You are free to do whatever you like or prefer. Do whatever you like. Others are free to consider it utterly silly though.

Yeah, no.

People are panic buying toilet paper and (in the US) guns. That makes no sense either.

Most cars marketed as SUVs today are crossovers.

It’s probably a local thing that the locals fully understand. There will be American things the Spanish don’t understand. That you as a tourist encountered a row of shops that did not adhere to their posted evening opening hours will have a logical explanation, and does not mean the work ethic of an entire country is…

Available with a short or long bed and a single or a double cab. Dually, or not. From the factory. In Europe. No Fx50 trucks are available at dealers here though, pickup trucks tend to be work vehicles here. The only F150s you see in Europe are private imports, driven as penis extensions.

In Europe? Yes. In the US? Probably not, unless it's a crossover.

Many. Different types too. The car is a Peugeot. Engine from a Lancia. Intercooler from a BMW. And on and on.

It might just have the EU spec headlights. Manually aimable headlights (adjustable from the dashboard) have been mandatory on all cars since the early 90s, in some countries like Germany since the late 80s. There is a standard position for normal situations, and a few settings where they are aimed further down…

Exactly. PSA is not interested in GM tech. They don’t own GM-era Opel tech either. They bought Opel for the infrastructure, market share and the name recognition. That’s it.

Or the rest of the world. This lack of choice is mostly limited in the US, because ‘freedom’.

When David Tracy comments that ‘it has a few rust spots’, we should all know that it is so crusty that it is beyond saving.

I used the iPhone as an analogy elsewhere. Most certainly not the first smart phone, but it did popularize the segment.

Yes. In 1967.

They don’t claim they had the first crossover. They seem to claim they created the segment.