You’d buy a Chinese made phone or laptop though wouldn't you?

No.

Is that actually still in use? Nearly all of these have been scrapped.

Depends where you are. If I were to buy a Tesla it would have a CCS adapter as standard because, er, that's the de facto standard here.

If it were road legal in the US they couldn't have driven it in Germany so there's that.

Then again, if the car had been road legal in the US it wouldn't have been road legal in Germany and that's where the Nürburgring is so....

“It would also be nice to have your car sitting in the shade, instead of boiling under the sun."

Would it surprise you to learn that here in Ireland the Fiesta was among the best selling cars for decades while the Jazz has only ever been a niche player? Like every other Honda it's too expensive.

Depends where you live I guess. For most of us the Fiesta is a mainly manual car so no DCT issues.

I’m surprised that you're surprised! Limiters are common and you can buy cars with a limiter but no cruise control.

Cruise control is bugger all use in Norway, you can rarely drive at the same speed for very long.

But a size bigger.

Production didn’t end a couple of years ago, it ended in July of this year.

Isn’t this what all airlines did back in the day?

That truck is designed primarily for sale in Europe. How many trucks do you think do more than 500km per day? Sure, some do, but most don't. Given the hours a driver is allowed drive it may not be easy to reach 500 unless you have multiple drivers.

And more in some places - in Ireland you're allowed 46 tonnes if you meet various safety requirements. Other countries have similar schemes.

Many of these ships were built in Italy. Waiting for the usual stereotypes of fire and breaking down endlessly.

They didn't. Customer was the Hong Kong company that owns the yard.

Yes, they’re often built in huge halls and floated out from them. The days of building on a slip and launching are long gone.

It has caught on outside Germany - I don’t live anywhere near yet all our diesel trains with the exception of long distance loco hauled ones are diesel/hydraulic. There is however a trend towards what the railway calls diesel/mechanical and the rest of us call conventional automatic gearboxes. These can be combined…