'go' traffic lights in Japan are blue, but I've yet to find a person there who's willing to admit that.

Good question.

*Checks IMDB*

Saw this on BaT too- still can't quite see how the second transmission comes in. I thought for a sec that they'd be coupled 'via the track' (i.e. one propshaft running one gearbox per axle), but the pictures show that that's clearly not the case: axle no. 2 is dead. Parallel gearboxes wouldn't have made much sense,…

Never knew there was such a thing as a '50 Mercury woody wagon.

*nods very vigorously*

Ah, yes: Germany's very own Camaro, source of a whole genre of German humour

The phrase goes back to 1932, with it's main popularity in the '50s. It was a GM specialty for most of those years.

If you're talking about the motorways the guy with the funny moustache had built, they'd be Reichsautobahnen.

On behalf of the European Union: thank you, and may you long continue to repatriate our gas Euros in your own inimitable ways.

@ja9ae

Did he actually say he drives it cross-country? O_o

I just about saw what you had...er did there

I think the US drew the short straw when it came to the Smart.

What I'd like to know is how on earth that malaisemobile ('82 Caprice?) in the messy garage of 9 got a Japanese license plate.

In dense European cities, 12 cm matters: [www.carmagazine.co.uk]

That's ... not very clever of Google.

Death.

Can't say I've seen Valhalla Rising, but Nicholas Refn is clearly one to watch.

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