Libby, in your time in DC, you seem to have lost part of your ability to swear authentically in (British) English.

Mmmmm ...

Native English speaker here. She’s got it right.

I briefly had an MPV. It replaced a Nissan Serena (yes, I know - I had too many kids) which rolled like a Citroen 2CV round corners.

Mr. Chen pondered his choices. He quite liked the idea of an electric car. (Anything that would help reduce the pollution levels that kept his kid indoors for most of the winter was worthwhile). The commute from his suburb to the office was quite short. And family outings at weekends tended to be to places quite close…

Thirty years ago, I worked with Holden’ ad agency. Holden were thinking about importing the Chevy Suburban, which - even for a wide brown land like Oz - was ludicrously big.

There’s a story that the British captured a bunch of brand new G Wagens from the Argentine Army in the Falklands. They were duly considered the ‘spoils of war’ and shipped back to the British Army in Germany.

I’d suggest ‘Ennui’, but I can’t be arsed.

Durex advertised their sponsorship with a poster campaign that showed a picture of the racer in its livery and the headline “Small Family car”.

Nah, not so much. It’s a Southern thing - around Guangzhou and the PRD.

Nissan is Japan’s British Leyland.

I was walking through a sidestreet in downtown Guangzhou in 1997. As I turned a corner, I came across a man skinning a steaming donkey on the pavement. On the next corner was the front door of the restaurant, with a large hand-drawn sign that had a picture of ... guess what. I’d hazard a guess that the sign read…

My first company car, 1972. .

Four speed with electrically-operated overdrive on the top two.

“It’s got sixteen forward, eight reverse, and Mexican overdrive”.

When John Egan took over as CEO at Jaguar, he undertook a quality audit on component suppliers. Lucas regularly got 30%+ rejection rates on what they were delivering (i.e. after Lucas’ own internal quality assurance inspections). That suggests it was pretty bad.

ST: “Slightly Tweaked”

Upturned bathtub is still and always will be an upturned bathtub.

Meh. I bought a lounge suite covered in the same pattern back in the late 80s.

I think he might have done just that.