Made a beeline for the LMoo2 in the back.

Nope, need the luggage space. Besides, it's the perfect commuter car for LA; no worrying about the next ding or dent. It's my "fuck you" car. If I want to have a fun drive, I take the E46. :)

Quite a bit of US military uses metric when it suits them...

R me hearties, E's been drinkin!

No, Australia uses kilometres and litres (not ...meters and liters, they're Americanisms).

In my first duty station in the Army we had a few Humvees, but then we also had something much much cooler: a Ford Econoline E350 with heavy duty suspension, all wheel drive, a low range transfer case, and all terrain tires.

Luxury cruise liner.

Hilux

1hp = 745 watts

Likely just an exaggeration of the truth, its just a lot of paperwork for the parking officers and it usually wont lead to anything other than the case being transferred to the country of registration.

Before the introduction of the metric system in Australia everything was similar to America, with MPH and Gallons etc. Metric came in during the late 70's.

I use both most of the time, but would use 5.0L in casual conversation with someone who had no idea about cars. Eg. my first car was a 4.9L 302 Cleveland, current car is a 5.0L 302 Windsor, but to anyone who doesn't give a shit I would just say 4.9l/5.0L V8

Well, I can tell you that before they made us all get plates with "USA" markings (US military in Europe) they still had absolutely NO problem ticketing us with our crappy base registration plates. I will venture to say perhaps he has some form of BS diplomatic plates.

No we do use liters to measure engine displacement. CI is a thing of the past, but when you're talking about old school muscle it's only right to use old school terms.

Hey, one of my cars is a G3 Eclipse, and I take offense! It's been fantastically reliable for 206,000 miles so far.

My fourth gen eclipse face.

Please.

This is my very worst fear...having a submarine surface underneath me as I'm walking a downtown city street. It happens to people far more often than you would think...the government just keeps it out of the news. Sure..go ahead and laugh...but just wait until it happens to you or to a loved one!

"You stare at him, and he just stares right back. And that's when the attack comes. Not from the front, but from the side - from the other two Michelin Men...you didn't even know were there."