Yup.

And if you’d put a roof on it, those folks’ stuff would remain free of dust and rain. And with such a low floor, you could even stand up in it, and use it as a shop.

We’re basically back here again, aren’t we?

Wow. Indeed. I suppose the advantage of such cars is that, while they may not be very reliable, they’re not very complicated either?

An Austin Allegro in California, with local tags.

Hybrid tech is a funny one; you’d think it’d be alien to someone from 1909, but it’s not. The famous Lohner-Porsche ‘Mixte’ hybrid is from 1898 and the first one was sold in Britain. It took part in trials around London in 1900. Dorothy Levitt might well have seen it. The same drive train was also used in London buses.

You’re quite right about the controls not being standardised, but that means that one more, relatively simple lay-out to add to all the other lay-outs she already knew would have been unlikely to phase Dorothy.

Automotive technology is almost unrecognizably different now,

Oh, that one? Indeed a 1971 AMC Hornet SC 360

Glas 1004 (or variant thereof)

Those BL-mobiles will never die, purely on the strength of the crowd that loves them.

What’s it like in manual mode?

Nice for us that he kept filming, but I think I’d have hit the brakes and shuffled over to the hard shoulder the moment I saw that giant erection.

That kinda explains the base MX-5's chassis tune

That, to me, is the archetypal central Amsterdam car.

There are. And unless things have changed drastically over the last decade or two, a US car signals one thing, and one thing only: pimp.

You made the right call. That city is not for driving in. No way, no how.

Heh. That last one sounds as if they took two 2CV engines, and simply smushed them together on the crank. Given how many folk have managed to stick GS/A engines back into 2CVs, I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s exactly how it happened.

And here’s a German license plate that spells ‘loon’ in Dutch:

Sad thing is, I only knew because I can still remember lifting an eyebrow or two when this sort of stuff landed in the shops...