We have a roundabout in Halifax Nova Scotia that they also call 'The Rotary'; I think it's a Northeast thing. It works pretty well, maybe people aren't quite as adept as using it as a British roundabout but they are pretty rare in Nova Scotia. You do always hear "traffic is backed up at the Rotary" on the news every…

I once watched a woman drive a Mitsubishi Shogun off Beachy Head*, a huge chalk cliff near Eastbourne UK, in an attempt to kill herself. Except, by a strange twist of fate or divine intervention she drove off a spot right above a wide, tapering crack in the cliff. The truck ended up wedged, nose down in this crack…

Plus, its just seems more likely that a Dodge driver would have done this.

AMC was way ahead of its time, but that price is way ahead of reality.

Hey, that's my ride - a '99 5 speed (except the trim and wheels are different, also LHD). And yes, I love it even if it is a *bit* underpowered. It's surprising how capable 120 or so HP actually is, but passing speed is a joke. Light, high ground clearance, good off-road.

Well, if this was a movie and the hero loose-cannon cop was assigned to drive one of these in the first scene, you just know that in the final climax the Smart car would turn out to be vital: it'd drive down an escalator or across a barely frozen pond or fly between two boxcars of a moving freight train, or maybe all…

Yeah, I never got one myself but apparently it's a license that says 'this person is forbidden from driving a manual car.'

That's kind of a drag, because in the UK anybody with a Canadian driver's license (and I presume an American one as well) can just exchange it for a UK license, for a fee.

Those Wallenius Wilhelmsen ships are my favourite thing to see coming in and out of Halifax harbour, although a while back a friend and I were out sailing and found ourselves with slack wind and a dead motor with one of them bearing down on us. It was pretty sketchy for a few anxious minutes.

Maybe not the greatest but still pretty badass: the South African Casspir

I wonder why that one is flying around Cape Town?

Definitely. The Bear is an awesome machine.

I've taken more Ryanair flights than I can remember, and while it is never pleasant (like: sleeping on the floor of Luton airport before your 10 pound 6.30 AM flight to Roma Ciampino and the first come first served seat thing that means everybody starts standing in line at the departure gate before your plane has even…

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The Mounties always get their man, but against moose they're actually pretty hopeless.

Never has a comment more accurately described the appropriateness of the title given to a video.

I had actually managed to avoid watching any of this and now that I have I can say that it is quite good but I do wish it was a bit longer and slower (yes, ok that's what she said)

You may be right. My mother and stepfather are both professors and they recently bought a Ford Focus EACH, and in the same goddamn seafoam green colour - although hers is a hatch, his the sedan. And this was her second Focus.

I spent the most I've ever spent on a fill-up yesterday in Lunenburg Nova Scotia: $68 for 48.5 litres (at about 1.41 per litre)... that's $68 for 12.8 gallons, $5.33 per gallon.

I'm an architect, so of course I love anything that's brutish and utilitarian, and the A-10 is my favourite warplane currently flying (closely followed by the Tu-95 Bear). I'll never forget when I was a kid on holiday in the Norfolk Broads (UK) and a flight of them came tearing just over our heads.