Because the standards are in English and England is in Europe.

it's racing shit happens... Chris Harris is just being a whiny little bitch, someone give him a snickers.

Until I see proof that it wasn't Harris's fault I'm reserving judgement. He is a bit of a douche and not nearly as good a driver as he thinks he is.

Yes, Europeans know how to drive. Don't need guardrails to keep us on the road.

Heh. What a non-helpful explanation.

We certainly do not. Speed limits are already ridiculously slow. What we need to do is educate drivers better so things like merging, turning, signaling, and awareness of pedestrian and bike laws on the road are understood as they should be. Lowering the speed limits is just an excuse to try and not deal with the…

You lost me at iPhone.

I realize this is a toy so it supports the toy phone, but how about support for a real phone, Android, WTF.

AME here. That's only a cover that protects the flap carriage track from weather, nothing critical at all.

Seriously, though, the mythology surrounding the origin of the Beetle is steeped in so much apocrypha, cloaks and daggers, and scary Nazis that it's hard to separate the good history from the bad.

I think that what we do know is that there were plenty of Beetle-like car designs on the European landscape during the…

I hope you realize the Golf GTI starts at $39k (€28.7k) in Germany, its home market. That's including 19% VAT, so before taxes it would be almost $33k. So your $25k is an absolute steal, it's insanely cheap.

Dude I tried to look something up on my sister's Macbook and I couldn't even find the web browser. Intuitive my ass.

Driving in a straight line...really isn't racing...

It might not be the fastest today, but it was in 1988. And, it's still the coolest of the bunch. The Hammer Wagon.

I say follow the money.

It's the 21st century. Stop worrying about nationality; lots of things cross borders and no longer fit in neat little national categories.

Well, if you yield to the rules of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, which stated that an aircraft should be able to take off under its own power in order to qualify for a record, then the catapult-launched Wright flight would be disqualified against the brazilian Alberto Santos-Dumont and his flight on the…

I get the joke. The really funny part, though, is that France's record on the battlefield is pretty good. You hear the joke mostly in the US, which is ironic because the US would not exist without France. This is why I find this particular joke so amusing and fascinating, as it demonstrates American idiocy and…

Alpine is the French Porsche.

I'd think that mountain biking would be an application in which most (sane) people don't care about the fashion shortfalls of a standard helmet. Furthermore, even if it could detect it I don't think it'd be a good idea to do what I presume is a single-use helmet for something you fall all the time in, like mountain…