SEAT is an acronym, like FIAT. It's pronounced say-at in Italy and I presume in Spain too. The SEAT Ibiza is mentioned on the radio at the beginning of this video from Sardinia:

Well, here's a shiny, clean new Jetta TDI, alongside an old Jetta, its deck lid all covered in soot

This is a lot like the Nomad, a very basic 4x4 built in the 70s by Chevrolet South Africa for the local market. Definitely a poor runner-up to the HiLux or Land Rover back then but I still remember them being pretty common. And some are still around:

That is just crazy.

That's the Halifax, Nova Scotia container port, if anybody cares.

I got Streetviewed a couple of days ago. When it goes online maybe you'll see a tall guy on a yellow bike, holding up an iphone:

/Aside: I'm always perplexed by the signs we have on the fire trucks up here (just visible in the top photo) that say "KEEP BACK 100m". What the heck does that mean, when is this necessary and why? For one thing, you can't read the thing until you're like 10 metres away anyway.

A car you can't drive in the rain sounds just perfect for Vancouver.

Love it, but not thrilled about the grille. Looks a bit like one of those ridiculous Lancias.

Let's not forget the albedo effect. In South Africa, and I'm sure other places as well, people prefer white cars just because they don't heat up so much in the sun.

Yeah it looks like they could have just kept on going for any number of loops, although I suppose it has been quite carefully calculated. As a South African (my dad's from Durban-Westville, also a huge TG fan) I'm more fascinated by the makeup of the crowd who turn out to see Top Gear. Not *quite* a Rainbow Nation,…

Or, the Jismo.

Isn't $4500 about what this thing would have cost *new*?

.

I think you're selling Ottawa short. It's more of a Toyota Sienna/Subaru Forester/sensible well-paid civil servant kind of town (I drive an Ottawa-reared, 1 owner-regularly-serviced RAV4, but I escaped with it to the east coast).

Very moving.

He appears to also own a Bronco II in the same Merlot & silver colourway.

.

Hilary's video feed was choppy and low res.

I used to have a Toyota cargo van (my second car, $1100, awesome) with the same engine, and the clickety valves ; I'd just throw some of this 'valve cleaner' stuff into the engine block and that would do the trick for a few months or so.