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A lot of the comments seem to be to the effect of “omg UK police state sux” but the reality is you have to be pretty careless to amass the 12 points that lead to a ban. At least we don’t jail people for minor infractions... http://jalopnik.com/never-speed-in-virginia-lessons-from-my-three-days-in-1613604053

This seems pretty sound, although personally I’m not really bothered about ratings at all - I just wanna read good words. (And that’s what I do here, I less-than-three you guys...)

Yep. Speed cameras suck but she really has only herself to blame.

Yes. :)

I think maybe we’ve taken longer to reach that point in the UK than in the US. Until recently in the UK, a lot of cars would succumb to rust, fail their MOT (annual inspection) and get scrapped before hitting 200k, because the average driver doesn’t pile on the miles that quickly.

What’s amazing to me is not how short the rebuild interval on something like this is, but how long it is on everyday boring cars. Isn’t it kind of incredible that you can buy basically any normal car costing $20,000 to $30,000, and reasonably expect to get 200,000 miles from it without the engine needing major work?

Nice car, the wheels are too damned big though​.

E46s rust, seemingly more so than many other similar aged cars. (Well, apart from Mercedes...) That’s got to be part of it.

Very cool. Does anyone know what the firework things on the roof are for? I assume they’re there to act as some sort of indicator, but of what I’m not sure.

I always enjoy these articles, but damn, I feel like this Jeep just wants to be allowed to die. I’d let it.

COTD is a bittersweet victory when you have to go to bed before it’s declared.

I enjoy a lot of vicarious dog ownership thanks to Instagram, and I do enjoy its general positivity.

I’m no SUV lover but that is a handsome chariot.

This being the UK, where guns are harder to come by, we actually hacked our dick off with a sharpened toothbrush.

It’s vastly improved. Not perfect, but entirely watchable and hopefully indicative of good things to come.

Seen in Spain.

It’s always interesting to hear an outsider’s perspective, but as others have said, Surrey is not the place to experience automotive diversity.

Our annual inspection (MOT) is a factor. It’s not crazy strict but I think the need to pass every year scares people off hanging on to older cars, especially if they have no mechanical knowledge of their own.