That implies that Rhine barges are now made in China too. Predictable, but still sad.

One more reason I also love bicycles: no electronics if you don't bring any, and no license plate. Everything, including speed, range and law abidance is down to your own abilities and responsibility.

6th gear: Forsooth! Doth thou mean to say that a petrol powered Transit roams the sub-lunar?

Entropy is a bitch. She can keep this one.

Wow. With a full load, downhill, that must be ... interesting.

Isn't the issue more fundamental than the statistics?

Ah, thank you, I was wondering about that- drums all round would have been the real WTF even if it was bone stock. Only 2CVs and the like still had those in 1974, and even then not for very long.

There is no reason a car is better than an iPhone, there's just poetry in motion.

Thank you, that saves me some Googling- I was thinking the same thing. I suspect FUQI had some sort of agreement with UAZ back in the Soviet era, and just kept churning them out ever since, with only the Toyotesque grille to keep it up to date.

I think my dad tried to give me an Opel Corsa A; it wasn't very clear. I did need a car every now and then for a week or two at that point, so I used it.

Always wondered where the Ford Taunus P3's somewhat odd 'bath tub' styling came from. Now I know.

Interesting.

Ah, I'd not realise that tax has such an effect. There are very similar rules in other EU nations, but they don't seem to have the same effect :-)

The current crop of Ups are a bit slow, even if every test I've read likes their lightness and chuckability.

Both the Aygo and the Up score the maximum five stars at NCAP, the European crash safety authority. That's just like the Fiat 500 and one more than the Smart. These days, cars that small can be made plenty safe.

Nope, we also get Yarises in Europe; these Aygos are smaller still.

Start badgering your Toyota dealer for one of these: the Aygo. Together with its identical Peugeot and Citroën brethren, it is by far the most widely sold car in the Netherlands.

$5 / 3.7854118 = $1.32 per litre, which (at $1 = £0.63) is £0.83

Funny that; for a decade or two they were street furniture. They'd have the same impact on your consciousness as an empty drinks bottle or a fence post.

I know this is Jalopnik and all, but old/practical bicycles completely p0wn the hot riders space. Visitors to Copenhagen and Amsterdam will know what I mean.