I’d recommend a 750il over a 740il. The 740il has the M62tu V8 that has a tendency to destroy its own chain guides— that’s why there are so many 740il’s in junkyards nowadays. The 5HP24 transmission in the 740il is also known to be a weak point. Meanwhile the M73 V12 in the 750il is quite robust and doesn’t have many…

Zip it! Now go get me 300 yards of flight line.

These little militias that have popped up, swastikas and all, remind me of the survivalist backwoods militias we used to hear about from the US in the nineties.

One of the first listings I saw was a Dodge Caliber. I didn’t know they sold those in the U.K. so I’d just like to apologize on behalf of all American Jalops for delivering these abominations to your shores.

I’m from the South originally and yes- if you put aside their ass-backwards politics and religious crap- they are some of the damned nicest people around. I live in California now and every time I go back to see my family it is TOTALLY different in the way people act. Drive down a road and someone you don’t know will…

I have a car-related memory of my first arrival in the US in 1995. I saw a Caprice Classic yellow cab cross an avenue in NYC and the suspension was soft enough for it to bounce softly as it crossed, and I realized I’d seen that action from watching Kojak and the like as a kid. Those 1970s boats all had soft floaty…

My 15-16 year old cousin from the UK came to visit us in the US once and she was completely blown away that we had yellow school buses, just like the Hollywood movies.

wealthiest part of the UK. Those folks don’t want to loose their cash with a ‘risky’ blue/red or green car.

I drove 130 miles return last week. I was exhausted after it. Needed a little lie down I did!

To be fair though, in the US there is a greater democratization of performance when you consider muscle cars in particular. For a mere $40,000 or so you can be out the door with a 400-500 HP V8, often in a chassis that can actually handle today. And they actually sell in pretty big numbers because the regulations…

Surrey, the heartland of the Daily Mail. Non-conformity is punishable by death. Death by burnt toast and no marmalade! The owners of those colorful cars you saw have probably already had an army of tutting mustaches descend upon them to usher in their demise.

I have a contender for Surrey’s title: The midwestern US, which mostly looks like this when the weather is ok

The fact that no one enacted the Budapest Memorandum is what’s also very sad. This alone should have made any country feeling safe behind some sort of international agreement of protection to really question their nation’s security.

Comparison with Yugoslavia is more contemporary than you might think. If you’re looking for the genesis of Russian annexation of Crimea you can find it in 2008 and independence of Kosovo. There you had the principle of national sovereignty at odds with people’s right for self-determination. So the EU in particular,…

No, I totally agree, and well said. There is a similar, albeit not as rampant issue in the U.S. in certain cities. Detroit has a large Islamic settlement which has been a source of a lot radicalization and movement to Syria to fight for the ‘cause’. Not even close in numbers to what we see in Europe, but I think…

There has been no reason to trust Ukraines government for sure. The crooks before or after. However, the Ukrainian people deserve support. As far as Crimea goes, Russia still has a lot to account for. At the very least they supplied the weapons to the “rebels” that shot down a passenger jet. But basically, what…

That’s not how international agreements work. If it worked like you’re suggesting, Russia doesn’t deserve a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, as it was granted to the Soviet Union.

Right. Because the Ukrainian people are responsible for what their country did with the Nazis. I guess that means all Japanese and German people are guilty too?

People will argue for decades about the historical implications involved in Russia’s actions. At the end of the day it’s pretty simple though: 

Just some nice guys on vacation with all their military equipment.