I think here in Portugal they started popping up in some cars (german, especially) a few years before that, but as it turns out, if the info I found is to be trusted, they didn’t become mandatory for all passenger cars until October 1st, 2000, and any car that was registered new before that date that didn’t have it is…

I remember being a kid when the third stop light became mandatory over here and my god, for a while that was the most fascinating thing in the world for me! Our new cars were actually evolving to become more like american ones! It’s crazy that it took so long to become mandatory. I don’t know the exact year, but it…

I get the all the arguments being made here, and I can see how being used to american-style markers could have an impact while driving in Europe, but honest to god, as a european driver I have never been in a situation in which I felt american style side markers would make much difference. I mean, I love them because…

The way notifications work isn’t a bug. It’s an annoying feature introduced to - my guess - make it a bit harder to access comments and replies, which artificially inflates click and page view figures. That’s what happens when your business model depends both on ad revenue and good-looking spreadsheets that keep…

Prof. Hubert J. Farnsworth, what an honour, yuuuuge fan here! Fun fact: we share the same birthday! That being said, what the hell, Professor??? What kind of fumes have you been inhaling lately? Can someone please share a reverse “they’re the same thing” meme in this thread, if there is one?

You say that like it’s a bad thing.

I’m gonna go ahead and assume you know about this, but in the off chance you don’t, there’s rumours that the Dodge Caravan came to be as an indirect result of the very early stages of evolution of what would become the Espace. Matra was part of Chrysler Europe in that weird amalgamation of brands that was…

The earlier one is actually almost the same as other contemporary EU-spec Renault 5 but the bumpers are dark and there’s no Renault badge, It’s actually incredible the Le Car looks so different considering how little they changed... It was basically 5mph bumpers, sealed beams, side indicators, slightly different grille…

Oh man that is an amazing story. I get your reasoning for not buying it though, there’s probably not an abundance of spare parts for the Le Car in the US.

I have a somewhat crippling fear of needles and I made my appointment the very day my age group was allowed to do it where I’m from. I felt anxious, kept sweating profusely while waiting to be called in, and had to look away like I always do, otherwise I may actually faint (it has happened in the past). This happened…

Wait, you almost bought the titular “Car” in “Dude, Where’s My Car”? That’s amazing! I was gonna say I’m partial to the one that the Bloodhound Gang are driving at the end of the video for “The Bad Touch”, but I went to check the video and was reminded that it was shot in Paris, and that one is an actual Renault 5 TL …

This one’s a TV car so I’m not sure it would’ve counted (I thought it was movie and TV cars but the slideshow is all movie cars so maybe I misread the question when I scrolled by), but I always had a thing for the Renault Le Car that appears in an episode of the A Team. I don’t recall the episode that well but I…

Oh wow, I had no idea Sinpar had made 4x4 conversions for automakers other than Renault. Thanks for posting this!

Well, they fixed the whole “not weird enough” vibe with its successor (which they tried to name conventionally using designations like 350 or 600, but the public had other ideas so it’s known as the Belphégor). Couldn’t get more Citroën-y than this.

Well, I guess I should’ve clarified I meant late 70s Elton John (which made that split-second all the more confusing).

Please tell me I wasn’t the only one who saw that first frame of the video and, for a split second, thought Roman was Elton John.

It’s a lot more suspicious - and I’m just assuming here, but the consequences are probably a lot more serious - if you just take the person’s vehicle and leave her dead body behind than it is to immediately call authorities, even if they may suspect foul play and you become a suspect. I mean, even if there’s good…

I was shocked when I saw the pictures and realised it was actually a Transit Connect and not a regular one. How do you live out of one of those and keep from slowly descending into madness?

Well, I was mostly joking with that final sentence. The company does have that vaporware stench all over it, but at this point I think they’ll probably pull off low-volume production at least. If they’re lucky, that will keep current investors happy and maybe even attract new investors. I still wouldn’t bet on them to…

I went to look at other pictures before commenting and noticed they all seem to have the rear bumper mounted at an angle, the and shape of the gap seems to vary. This pre-pre-production one (I’m assuming, since there’s no tacky placeholder lights) is levelled and the bumper still looks weird to me. But yeah, I can’t…