Another difference that plays a part here is that the UK doesn’t have jaywalking laws (I guess we’re not free enough or something), so a pedestrian can cross the road wherever they like.

The trick is to dig deep and provide proper substrates. Here (NY) they mostly just scrape the ground and paint some asphalt on top; rinse and repeat yearly.

If they were made by Lucas they’d catch on fire.

Even better if they’re still used:

Well, various different manufacturers have plants here, but as (eg) Honda own the factory, it’s not really ‘license built’, it’s just another overseas factory. I’m not sure how something not manufactured in Japan can be JDM either. Plus, I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the design and testing is done in the UK as…

I seem to remember that some Rolls Royces or Bentlys had two horns, one for ‘town’ and one for ‘country’. I can’t remember which was the loud one.

Gotta love the video shoving a Union Jack flag front and centre, but the actual vehicle has the steering wheel on the left-hand side...

I think people in other countries look at the UK and think “Well, that looks fucking terrible, why would they ever vote for that? This must be some British joke I don’t get...”.

I still can’t get my head around the whole concept HOAs (I’m from the UK).

I usually head for ebay unless I need new stuff.

I have asked myself the “what’s the matter with the British” a lot more often in the last decade or two

I owned a Peugeot 206 for fourteen years*, and it turned out to be very reliable, despite me treating it like crap. By the time I scrapped it it had dents on every single body panel, I’d replaced every part of the exhaust at least once due to rust, and quite a few horsepower had escaped over it’s life, but apart from…

A lot of their script seem to basically be the “best bits” of all the off-the-cuff stuff they say to each other when they’re not being filmed, reproduced (and probably toned down) for the cameras.

Plus, as far as I can tell, roads in the Europe are generally in better condition than in the US, which must help a bit.

I’ve often wondered if manufactures send lower standard cars to the US than they sell in Europe, because my family has been driving VWs for decades here in the UK, and they’ve always been basically reliable. Yet ask most US Jalops and they’ll complain about endless repairs and failures, which hasn’t been my…

A friend of mine took his van* on the Eurostar (train through the Channel tunnel) over to France with his girlfriend at the time.

I first drove a car when I was about fourteen, and I managed to roll it on it’s side within about ten seconds. And that had less than 100hp, let alone 1400. Good on her!

Didn’t Hammond crash it in Switzerland? Or has he had more crashes that I’ve forgotten about (entirely possible)?

If the item is too heavy to lift that high, it would probably have a hard time fitting in a Modus.

You could go back to the UK. In most European countries, licensing requirements and paperwork are far more onerous and burdensome than they are in the USA.