Off to a bad start.

MCM did a Mini B16 swap (after fitting a supercharger to the original engine), which might give a better idea of the work involved.

I would hope no one is trying to do this as a daily nowadays - the Mini is definitely one of the least safe things to get in a crash in on US roads full of pickups.

In most countries, as cars have changed, old ones have been grandfathered in. Even a five year old car might have trouble getting through new-model certification, but once a car is out there, generally they’re only held to the standards at the time they were manufactured.

I’m sure a lot of Italians have been conceived in the back of one of these.

As far as I know, the road cameras in the UK are mainly there to look for certain plates that the police are interested in, and as long as he had road tax*, they’d have no reason to flag him up. And if he stayed away from London and some motorways, he probably would have avoided most of them.

You don’t need a driving license, or insurance, or road tax to own a car, just to drive it.

Which, sounds about right for a society that has modelled itself on Putin’s Russia

No need to bastardise the 911

Well, the guy behind him did honk at him, and clearly that’s justifiable grounds to murder them, right?

How about having to get a license to own a gun? You already do for cars.

Out of all the US road/vehicle laws that seem weird to me, this is the main one. It’s strange that the country of FREEDOM!!!!11!! doesn’t allow you to cross a road, and yet we can in the UK wherever we feel like (except motorways).

Volkswagen has used variations of the VR6 since 1991 in various vehicles.

The Red Arrows fly the Hawk T1A(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE_Systems_Hawk#Hawk_T1A) , which is very much a military jet. I remember reading that they can convert one of the Red Arrow’s display jets to full combat readiness in five hours (but I can’t find the source for that right now).

Not if you are British.

There seems to be a split between people saying that this would be easy and cheap to maintain, and those saying that it would bankrupt you and drive you to drink.

It’s certainly not my favourite Ferrari, but to me, it is the ur-Ferrari. This car is what comes into my head when I think of the manufacturer.

LandRover went to a flush radiator when it became the Defender in 1983.

What was the Dasher based on? From the brochure pic it looks like an 80's Passat (my folks had a Passat estate for much of the 1980's).

I guess the Yanks tend to drive longer journeys than we do in Europe, but even so, this car is better suited to motorway/highway speeds than many of the vehicles I’ve owned. For example: