Chinese companies have a lot of former Euro designers working for them now. Hyundai/Kia are the same way. I just don’t think the Japanese marques care, they sell well enough and they’re not prone to soliciting outside stylistic help these days. The tie-ups with the Italian design houses are long dead.

You think that that “potato shipment” might have been from Europe perhaps? Yeah, same here, but a bit of research indicates that NZ imports some potato products (fries, hash browns etc) but not raw potatoes. Not sure what this story is about now.

When I was renting cars in France during the 2002-2009 time frame I was always quite content with Renault Clios and rather liked them. Then there was the time Hertz decided they liked me so they gave me a Laguna. I appreciate the sentiment but that extra size made parking so much more difficult, especially in those…

Hi... Vancouver based claims person here.

I don’t even how to order a Taxi, and when I called last time, decades ago, nobody showed up and I spent 2 hours waiting. Bus was faster

I can see that in rural, although here in the states it’s a mix. Some places are so rural that there are no taxi services close (so any ride will be expensive). Sometimes there are rideshare apps, sometimes not.

Cab would be much cheaper - the question is if you’d be able to get one. 

Well, depending on the time of day it could change, but not like Uber. There is a base rate of $3.25 and an additional $2.25 per mile. If there is no traffic, or stops, the ride would come out to under $15 for a five mile ride. If traffic was heavy, there is a stand and wait fee that comes to $20 every hour the meter…

RE: the Uber prices. How much would a taxi cost for that five miles?

It’s nearly impossible to get a taxi in downtown Chicago, there’s so few compared to a few days ago. In a neighborhood, they’re just non-existent.

na once more people have guns, every situation will be saturated with “good guys with guns” so there will never be a mass casualty event

But don’t people in other countries have mental health problems? Because this seems to really only happen here. At this frequency anyway.

I love how Antifa has become this shadowy cabal of agents that is highly organized and subversive but it can be literally anyone. Also I love how Anti-Fascists is somehow the bad guys for the freedom crowd? Oh those darn people who hate fascism ruining my freedom parade...

It’s interesting that our views are exactly opposite - and I don’t mean to be confrontational here. Certainly, Europe has a lot of baggage, but it is an adult. The U.S.A. is still a teenager among nations. Arrogant, subjectively immortal, careless and reckless. I want to think that we Europeans have learnt a bit from…

Plus in the UK, most people take their test in a manual.

The last driving test I sat was on December 7th 2011, at 13:40 to be exact. It was back home in the UK and was a 45-minute affair that started with answering questions about the car itself, such as how to check your oil level, and ended with a bay park back at the test center.

No lie is as powerful than the one we tell ourselves.

The Heritage of Vauxhall is huge.

Look, clearly you have a very narrow understanding of how the world works and that includes the presidency. Trump spent four years courting and empowering authoritarian regimes around the world while simultaneously doing everything he could to damage our own democracy and the strength of allied relationships. It is he…

The Vauxhall suggestion is a rather ignorant one. It has zero unique cars. It’s just a badge, a badge with a lot of heritage. If you kill it, you have to replace it with an international badge (Opel) which has almost zero name recognition in the UK.