You’ve got two choices when doing a restoration, either keep it original in which case you have a museum piece which can't be used as intended, or you make it useable in which case you lose originality. It's the same in the marine world, you keep your boat in dry dock or in a shed in an original state or you keep it…

He’s in Finland thought. Subaru have quite a different experience there.

Poster’s in Finland though. Things go differently for Subaru there.

The Gardner engine does about 2,000rpm. Isn't it going to be very undergeared in a vehicle which normally had an engine doing up to about double that?

It was made clear in the article, and it’s appeared here often enough too, that prices in the UK and most of the world include all taxes. In this case you have import duty which I think is 10% and VAT at 20odd% plus the costs of sourcing the vehicles in the US and shipping them in small numbers. On top of that they…

True and it guess that's one reason they're expanding wind in Norway.

How do they make electricity? The way you’d expect.

Commuter transport is always going to be like that though. Outside of the rush hours not many will be on board, but you still have to provide for those rush hours.

5th gear:

Chokes, manual or otherwise.

The i3's still in production until June though and sales have been increasing. You mightn’t be able to get it where you are but that doesn’t mean that nobody can.

If you think the UK is anything like Putin's Russia, you've never been to Putin's Russia.

If the UK is anything like where I am, the police can operate check points where they stop all comers and check road tax, insurance and so on. They don't need a reason to stop you.

The tax rate is not 100% so the cost is not irrelevant.

I was surprised too so I went to Ford’s UK site which doesn’t show any prices yet so we’ll have to wait and see.

That is in fairness a fifteen year old car. One would hope things have improved in the interim.

Single vehicle crashes into something unyielding are by no means always accidents though. Suicide by car is unfortunately a thing.

Any chance of translating "ci" to English? No, I couldn't be bothered going to Google. They just sound like tiny engines.

I was reading an article about this the other day which said that you can nearly get two diesel Transits for the price of one electric one.

Yes, called the 480ES for that reason!