According to my French friends, Canadians can’t actually speak French.

Given that such a large proportion of the population is now millenials, I’d just call them Americans.

which kills the catalytic converter, which then (very quickly) kills the engine

Last year someone went to the trouble of prying the lock off the door of my 206, so that they could break in and steal....the passenger wing mirror.

I can only assume that VW only ship the b-rated stock to America, because they have a much better reputation on this side of the Atlantic.

I feel like if you’re “too young” to realise that trying to drive round a race track one handed is stupid, then you’re probably too young to be driving at all.

Last year my brother heard about someone trying to get rid of a load of stone (long story). My brother, being a tight-arse, headed straight over, and proceeded to overload both his trailer, and his Series 3 to such an extent that the rear suspension was maxed out. (And I’m pretty sure his Landie already has a mild…

Well I’m an idiot then.

I can’t remember exactly where, but probably in Singapore, most of the taxis had “spinners”, but they were flat and used to display adverts. This was a few years before I started seeing them done in chrome and used for styling.

“Dauphine” is cromulent French. It would imply the feminine version of Dauphin.

I hadn’t even twigged that all Zoe’s are electric. I’ve seen so many of them that I just assumed most were petrol-engined, and were just another small car.

I’d be pretty stoked to work anywhere at NASA, even if it was boring.

slow, noisy, stiff, bouncy, cramped

If anyone knows of any not-massivly-expensive software that can ready the codes in a 2006 VW, let me know.

I bet you that if you wrote a post about autonomous cars, without mentioning Tesla or Elon once, you’d still get Tesla fanbois showing up in the comments anyway.

Kei sports cars are the best!

And the whole blade just isn’t very heavy - it’s hollow and made of fiberglass composite.

Don’t forget that after his abdication Edward VIII (then known as the Duke of Windsor), travelled to Nazi Germany in 1937, and met Hitler.

Could they use non-US market vehicles?