It’s even legal in the UK. A friend of mine has photos of him landed on a mud-bar in the river Severn in an R-22 helicopter.

I don’t know how anyone can get out with putting the handbrake on, it just feels so wrong to me.

Most of the rest of the world uses a “chip and PIN” system with cards

Surely Japanese safety standards twenty five years ago, were higher than US standards?

I share my car with my friend. It’s my car, and in return for a few £ a month (+ fuel), she gets to borrow it whenever I’m not using it.

Chicken Tikka Masala is a British recipe anyway.

It has a turbine engine that will run on anything from jet fuel to diesel, and probably basically anything slightly flamable, so filling it up shouldn’t break the bank.

Well, as much as I may think that SUVs and crossovers are ugly and pointless, I have to admit that lots of people seem to love them.

Not sure how it’d work on rodents, but clove oil stopped my friend’s puppy from chewing everything. Might be worth a go, and smells nice too.

Could have done with something like this to diagnose the ‘ECP’ light on my 2006 VW Polo last year.

Did you never think of putting up a big “Go Army!” banner in the tree just to mess with the Air Force pilots? ;)

I think about the only difference is that on a motorcycle, he would have been wearing a helmet.

I’ve usually been able to do it with just my hands, or sometimes a C-clamp, but I’ve only ever worked on small cars with single piston brakes.

I’ve never been able to do that, mostly because as far as I know, they’ve never included a VW Polo, and that’s 5/6ths of all the cars I’ve owned.

Is $150 for an escort a good price?

2006 VW Polo. Reach under the passenger side dash, squeeze two clips, pull out filter. I reckon you could do the entire swap in under 10s with some practise.

I learned that the way you look for diversity is not by deliberately hiring unqualified minorities just to fill the quota.

The fact that this one is still running might mean that it’s managed to avoid all the usual problems that have probably doomed every other one in the US to the scrapyard.

Not to mention that UK petrol prices are over twice the US price. Plus, you have to add insurance on top (it’s mandatory here), road tax every year (£155), and once it’s a few years old an annual MOT test (£54.85).

What’s the betting the reason there are six of them up for auction at the same time, is because the previous owners have died of covid.