I do remember a video here of a guy crashing a vintage (1920's?) racer during a hill climb, when he gets thrown completely out of the car, but of course I can’t find it now. (He was fine btw, and the car was repairable. ETA, the video was recent, the car was vintage)

I’d never even heard of winter tires until I heard Americans arguing about them. In the UK we just use the same tires all year round.

I’m no fan of imperialism, but just in case you were wondering why English so widely spoken globally.

Shouldn’t it be in Latin?

Good idea. A second-hand Phaeton would probably bankrupt anyone, but a second-hand Kia?

When I traded in my old Peugeot they gave me £60 for it, which was almost exactly the cost to fill it’s tank right up.

It’s the same in the UK and, I guess, probably everywhere.

Get a sponsorship from a tool manufacturer and upgrade it using power drill motors. You could have one powering each wheel!

In the video there’s a Ford Transit which seems to be exactly as wide as the gap, which would make it ~2m (which is about 6'6").

There was an F250 that I used to see on my way to work, and it was hilariously oversized for UK roads. I suspect they had to carefully pick their routes to avoid narrow streets.

My first car was a 1984 Polo with that engine, but I could have sworn it was 1047cc (just small enough to count as a one litre engine for Road Tax purposes).

So what you’re saying is, the supercharged engine is the sensible and rational choice.

Did you read the article? The current status of every single one of those of those vehicles is that none of them exist as anything other than a prototype.

Trust the Aussies to know how to make something ugly go fast.

Why pick the lock when you can use a bent coat-hanger to grab the lock?

The car had been sitting for a long, long time

Weird, my car is 15 years old, I fill it up less than once a month, and yet it’s still fine.

A long while ago I was rear-ended by a BMW, and for whatever reason the other driver claimed it was my fault*. I told my insurance company the facts, they agreed that as he drove into the back of my car, absent anything else he was clearly at fault, and I assumed they’d deal with everything else.

52% at last count...

The British don’t even use the metric system for everything.