Came here to say this. Electrification makes sense on basically any busy line. These hydrogen trains are for lesser branch lines which it doesn’t make sense to electrify.

The Ford was tested on a small overlap in those pictures, which is a seriously tough test to pass. The Jimny was tested in a 40% overlap test.

Erm... not sure. Other small cars are strong enough that the door frame doesn’t deform. Even much older small cars. The structure has basically reached its limit in the 40mph frontal test, whereas the structure in, say, this 2009 VW Polo, has not.

The range is a big part of it. Lots of what a regular A330 lifts is fuel- they’re used on long-haul routes. The Beluga XL will be flying a couple of hours from North Wales down to Toulouse. The maximum fuel load of the A330 according to Wikipedia is over 100 tonnes. Even if that’s just halved, that’s the payload of…

It would have been awkward to load the top deck of the A380F, and due to the payload/volume characteristics it would only really have worked for package freight (think FedEx and UPS, who both ordered and later cancelled it). That 2nd floor restricts the height and shape of what can be loaded. The 747 in comparison…

Bloody hell Peugeot. That’s gorgeous. 

Spotify already works with CarPlay though right? 

Android Auto on the built-in headunit is better though. I honestly wouldn’t even consider a car without it any more. I didn’t think it was vital when I got the car 2 years ago, but I’ve changed my tune.

I suppose it depends on the 4-door Civic.

Can confirm. It’s even worse with the top up. I’m 1.88m (6'2) and it’s very awkward, especially on the driver’s side with the wheel in the way. 

My dad briefly commuted in his Z1. Briefly. He bought a Golf TDI as a ‘something sensible’ to use as an actual car, not a plaything. 

My dad bought one, when my mum was in full 80s-power-woman mode (she had an E30 325i Touring with a carphone!). He still has the Z1, thankfully she doesn’t have her shoulder pad suits any more.

Flat bottom wheels are standard on all VWs now I think, at least in the UK anyway. Even a 60PS base-model Up.

My aunt and uncle have one, with the V6 TDI. They love it. 

Apparently GTI is for hatchbacks only. I feel like the GLI name should be used for non-hatch cars, like it has been on the Jetta. A Golf Sportwagen GLI would work, as would a Tiguan GLI or T-Roc GLI IMO. Quite why they haven’t decided to bring the T-Roc to the US yet I don’t know.

Don’t the Puebla Golfs get a manual handbrake instead of the electronic ones that German-built Golfs get?

My parents have one. It’s definitely not a wagon. It’s a hatch like the Audi A3 Sportback (Skoda actually brand it as a ‘Spaceback’).

My parents have a Rapid like this (but red). It’s a perfectly decent little car, and legroom in the back is seriously impressive for a car its size. It’s not the Skoda I would have expected though, I’d have thought they’d have used a Superb or a Kodiaq.

It’s not like the Maserati doesn’t have the controls on the wheel too...

I found that when I was getting my car, the lease prices were almost the exact same for a brand new car as a 1 or 2 year old car with around 15k miles. This was on a Skoda Fabia, midrange SE trim with the TSI engine. The new ones had the advantage of getting Android Auto and Apple CarPlay too. The reason the new one…