An M-Sport may, but an M3, M5 etc., would most definitely not.

Partly it’s a reaction to all the trim levels used to be badged on the back of cars in the seventies and eighties. There was nothing as bad as seeing “Ford Escort 1.6 GLXi 16v” to make a car look chavvy. The practise of boy racers gluing “Turbo” onto their cars made it worse, as one guy at school did with his Citroen…

It’s valid point, but don’t forget that a lot of Europe pays sky-high prices for gas/petrol, and a lot of company cars are only available as diesel over here. If they’re going to have to make a decent Euro VI diesel over here, then it shouldn’t be too much of an issue to put it in US cars.

Someone seriously did that to a mentally disabled person? I actually felt nauseous reading that.

How would a Formula E car or NASCAR compare to these?

In Europe, socialism and communism came from the same roots and used red as a colour of solidarity. Parties like Labour have been openly socialist through most of their history. Liberal parties in Europe tend to be yellow or orange.

My grandfather was 6'6", and drove a Fiat Uno as he said it had the best headroom of any car at the time (mid eighties). Before that he had a Fiat 127.

So when McCarthy was talking about ‘Reds under the beds’, was he referring to conservatives?

NCAP tests are generally done on the bog standard car, and airbags are optional extras on these cars.

Don’t forget the Dacia Logan, which is sold across Europe as a cheap station wagon, only has a 3 star NCAP rating.

Assuming there are perfect maps of subterranean New York. You would be amazed at how easily we forget the tunnelling and underground building. Go and Google Crossrail for some of the issues they’ve had in London (although I doubt NYC has to deal with Roman cemeteries or mediaeval plague pits)

As someone with borderline personality disorder (although nothing like your case), it’s not a complete psychotic shift. The main thing about the disorder are massive feelings of loss or emptiness. You’re unable to see complex things about a person, so can only see one aspect at time, which you feel very strongly about.

I would agree with you in most cases. I would say that in some cases (like high mileage drivers) there is a case for buying new. There are also pollution restrictions coming in in some European cities against cars that aren’t Euro 4 compliant.

That may be the case for you, but I just got a new car at 2.7%, plus an extra GBP1500 (about $2200) off if I took finance. It ended up being cheaper then paying cash.

Couldn’t you have tried “I don’t stop for reds and communists”

When I moved from Britain to Germany, the gear change was really not an issue. The biggest problem I found was judging the distance from the kerb, which I had to completely relearn in a left hand drive car.

You’re right, but sometimes it’s just about revenge.

I also work in an aerospace company, and we now cannot update the company information on our purchase orders and sales orders, as it had to be done on a Windows 98 machine (VMs wouldn’t work) on floppy disk. The machine died about nine months ago, so we’re screwed.

Worrying about draft picks being wasted on a QB would be a valid plan. However, listening to Bradford’s coach, his two main concern was that it would be distracting and that the fans would boo Bradford if he was bad and want Went brought on mid-season (which is probably true).

Does this mean that Chip would definitely not have been able to draft a QB at San Francisco were he still alive?