Having lived in Tahiti for a while, I made the Paris-Papeete flight several times (frog here) : something like 10 or so hours from Paris to California (LAX or Oakland intl, depending on airlines) for a 2h stopover, then 10 hours or so from California to the wonderful coast and warm climate of French Polynesia.

From abroad (and not wanting to give lessons at all), I’m still asking : when the hell will your fabulous country (without whom i’d speak german instead of french) get rid of this two-stage election scheme ?

Let’s call it USS Jules Verne, tho...

I just fell for the dashboard. Modern, but soooo boxy, squared, with two big round tachos, sooo 70-80s flavored..... It’s been a long while since I last had a Waow !!! for a dashboard...

About styling, Tesla had to build a brand image, so it took the “spaceship looking” disruptive way to make its spot on the map. Other premium brands have plenty of titanium-plated brand image : their purpose is to maintain it while avoiding a major crash with an EV who’d miss its goals.

Obvious issue with hydrogen cars: the grid. You need hydrogen stations. As long as Toyota will be alone on this technology, nobody will invest on the grid just form them (ahem...Dear Elon, who paid for his own grid...)

Could end up with closing some plants quickly...

Let’s say Ford will still build cars in china and sill sell them elsewhere than US. Couldn’t this end up with a “US” car company building and selling all of its cars abroad ? (yes, meaning no more f150s, as nobody wants them on an industrial scale...)

I could talk about my dad’s GTIs I grew in (3 Mk1 GTIs, 3 mk2 GTI 16V, ending with a crazy Mk3 VR6).

The GTI is the answer to the following question

It surely does. Educational purpose.

Past tense isn’t yet adequate about Brexit.

A colleague recently inherited, sold a flat, and ordered a brand new 2018 GT-R, here in France. He took me for a ride, and damn, this thing moves... Ok, the interior is a bit outdated and the general design is a bit outdated too, but I agree : this thing is perfect alien car in french general traffic. Then you floor…

You could just consider reading EU car forums.

Here are many of them. Cactuses everywhere :

Which is exactly what manufacturers did with putting their plants in US a long time ago. So why would they divest ?

This is a serious answer : Groups like PSA or Renault-Nissan wouldn’t waste their time and money trying to sell euro-spec hatches in a country where the top seller is a pickup. Euro market is specific (small roads, small cities, high fuel cost, more environment-sensitive customers, slightly lower average income...),…

Well, peugeot asked me once to pay north of 300€ for two rubber twin carburetors intake gaskets (for my beloved 205 rallye) back in the nineties.

Still trying to figure out what would happen if tomorrow morning, someone took less than 8 seconds to run the 100m...