Manuals have traditionally been more expensive, slower and heavy on fuel and to a certain extent still are - most of the automatics sold where I am cost in the region of €2,000 extra and you're limited to more upmarket specs and more powerful engines so the price difference between the cheapest manual and the cheapest…

No and no. I’ve driven in the UK, France, Germany, Poland, Norway, Sweden, a few other places and America. The last is the only one that allowed turning left or right on a red light.

I’m in Ireland. Most of our trains are DOO, sometimes with somebody on the platform to dispatch but often not so the driver has the responsibility of not closing the doors on passengers - easy if you have two coaches, less so with ten or more. I’ve been on automated Métro lines in Paris which are as you say closed…

That’s interesting as I’ve never quite got to the bottom of the terms used by the Americans. Here the person at the pointy end is the driver and quite often there are no other staff (what’s called DOO or Driver Only Operation). There might be somebody with a trolley selling drinks and so on but they’re not train crew…

Just out of curiosity, is a conductor what’s called a train driver where I am, or some other role on a train?

Their thinking is that it was better that the driver think of what he or she was doing rather than rely on the car to do it for him or her. It eventually dawned that this was costing them sales so the BX went from weird

The absence of Citroën is unexpected and disturbing.

Also, non self-cancelling. Citroën had a philosophical rejection of self cancelling indicators for many years.

Not going on sale until next year.

Interestingly, I’ve looked at the figures for my particular part of Europe.

They can add on “delivery and related charges” but no, they can’t just add as big a number as they think they can get away with to the price.

Well, it's survived thus far.....

I live near a busy roundabout which was built without lights. Which would normally be fine but it's very busy and much of the traffic comes from one direction meaning that if you're on one of the other roads you find it very difficult to get on to the roundabout. So lights were put in at two of the junctions.

Don’t think there would be a data sheet on that or any other window.

Probably more "rest of the world only" though.

There was the W18 with its three banks of cylinders too of course but I think they never got around the problem of having an inlet and an exhaust manifold in one of the vees.

Wasn’t the W12 a result of Piëch in full on Piëch mode wanting a whole range of narrow V engines, from a V4 upwards, all modular designs based on the VR6? As I recall only the 6, the V5, W8 and W12 were actually made but a wider range was suggested.

I’ve never seen the Grand Tour, but if they were talking about priorité à droite on some French roundabouts, it is or perhaps was a thing because I've come across it, much to my horror at the time!

Things that look odd: American spec headlights jammed into a space not originally designed for them.

Gloves, in the glovebox. If you paid more you'd get a lid for it.