I’ve driven a Modus, courtesy of Sixt, and I don't actually remember ever noticing the Chute.

Don’t worry, your lights will be required to be ever so slightly different from those of everybody else so makers will still have to specify unique lights for the US market.

Imagine how I felt when I discovered the Americans spell kerb as curb.

Common enough with FWD vans. Ford, Renault, VW... They're all much like that with just a beam axle.

Vans where you are are not usually FWD? Vans the size of that one are usually FWD where I am. Larger ones are RWD so some makers (Ford is an example) produce the same van with FWD or RWD - or both as in 4wd- depending on which wheelbase you go for.

There’s a comment above with just that spelling...no, I suppose people don’t usually write out 4L as Quatrelle but I’ve seen it before.

Not just those. They cut one off the VR6 to make the V5 and glued two VR6s together to make the W12. The W8 was two VR6s cut down to VR4s and glued together.

Lots of JDM cars to be seen. Would have thought that RHD would be an issue in Russia but seemingly not 

France had an L? Must have I guess because the 4 was known as the Quatrelle.

Interestingly, the current Focus was introduced with the expensive option of an eight speed torque converter automatic. Even more interestingly, it has now switched to a seven speed DCT as has the Fiesta.

Living as I do in a place where the Fiesta has been a perennial top seller for forty plus years and is a popular used car it’s always funny to read the hate for them amongst those who think everything must be an automatic.

No hate for the Scirocco in the lead image?

You could do the same article about VAG who produce approximately 14,602 small CUV type things.

Looks like something you’d find on any diesel of that era. Which it would be, because mechanical injection.

Also major differences between one continental country and another. The Italians have a unique love for the Lancia Ypsilon, the French like the Clio, C3 and 208, (none of which are actually made there now!) and so on.

I tried and failed in the past to find an image of of of those.

I hadn’t thought so. The Japanese vans were much more common here, especially the Hiace. There was a time when the Hiace was so ubiquitous that every other van was called a “Hiacevan" regardless of who actually made it.

At the time most Japanese vans had that arrangement.

Very common once. Apart from the Hiace there was the Nissan Urvan and the Mitsubishi equivalent. Mazda did one too I think.

We call it Dutch from when it was a variant of German so a variation of deutsch.