My 50 years figure I meant able to go into production/ be cheap enough to go in many cars. Lithium Ion batteries had been worked on since the 70s but the first commercial LI-Ion wasn’t released until 1991.

Taste is subjective, it’s quite likely that if you’ve drunk diet sodas for most of you life you’ll find that taste better than the full-fat one.

To be fair, at least on Android, this seems to be a common feature. I know Antenna Pod has it https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.danoeh.antennapod&hl=en_GB

I think the problem comes from when people decide that because Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Pepsi Max and Diet Pepsi are “Healthier” than their full-fat versions you can drink as much as you like of them.

Worth pointing out I couldn’t find any credible sources but there are meant to be more than 300 years of production if we produce at the current rate.

I don’t personally know the Canadian system but I don’t think they’re the most left wing programme of western countries. Currently in the UK perscription drugs have a flat fee of £8.60. We also provide free dental care to under eighteens.

I don’t necessarily know if this’ll work but you tend to be more likely to get ungreyed by either posting answers on Q and A posts or by the smaller sub blogs of the main ones. IE Skillet for Lifehacker, Steamed for Kotaku and Lanesplitter for Jalopnik. 

I can’t really tell what your opinion on this is. You started off complaining about the BBC wasting money because it’s state funded and then decide that because we aren’t forced to pay for it everyone just watches for nothing.

In the UK you are allowed to own a TV without the license provided you don’t watch any TV. As in you can use a TV for DVDs and Blu-Rays without one.

He has been a radio presenter for years and currently has a morning radio show on one of the largest radio stations in the UK (BBC radio 2).

He wasn’t disgraced. No one liked him presenting top gear. There is a bit of a difference. He’d been known and big for years in the UK before Top Gear and isn’t going anywhere any time soon.

The BBC technically isn’t mandatory. You can refuse to pay the license fee and just make do without any TV channels or BBC catch up. The BBC isn’t perfect, not by any means, but they are politically the closest to centre we will ever get which wouldn’t happen with a for-profit company.

Your first point I completely agree with, for the second point I was trying to say GM should release a Corsa alongside an Astra to have a Fiesta and Focus competitor.

The car that the Regal is based on (Vauxhall/Opel Insignia) doesn’t have a coupe. They could rebadge the Vauxhall GTC (http://www.vauxhall.co.uk/vehicles/vauxhall-range/cars/gtc/overview.html) to use a coupe.

The UK one almost certainly will, we get a gimped license if you don’t learn with a manual and hire cars are basically all manuals so any large car manufacturer basically has to put a manual in or have some reason why the can’t (IE it’s a high performance sports car).

It’s probably a rebadged Opel Insignia. That’s what the last gen was and it looks very similar to the current insignia.

I’m not sure about this but if they were to do that it’d make sense for them to release the Vauxhall/Opel Corsa VXR/OPC as well. It’s the companies smallest, performance model, hatch in Europe and probably competes against a Fiesta ST better than an Astra would.

It may well come from Germany. It’s a modified Opel/Vauxhall Insignia which are made in German plants. If not it will at least be designed and engineered in Germany so only actual construction would happen in China.

Well it depends on the virus. Things like influenza mutate very quickly and the vaccine for a year may not be similar enough to the main strain that year to be effective.

Well you can’t drive a laptop so people would presume the man drove the tesla with the laptop in the car.