Might be a Britishism!

But that’s politics isn’t it. Defer it by a few years, until it’s someone else’s problem. Doesn’t matter if the cost is now 10x what it would be if you fixed it now, because it’s someone else’s problem. 

Parking lights and sidelights are *not* the same thing, at least to these British ears. And me and my friends from Ye Olde Signale, the local car lighting fetishist bar here in Manchester, will fight you for it. Once we’ve finished with our slightly too warm beer.

The have for some reason sold relatively well here in the UK. I have no idea why, but there we go. Quite why you’d buy one over something like a Skoda Karoq or Peugeot 3008 I don’t know. 

It’s really surprisingly easy. I’m British, so RHD is normal for me, but renting LHD cars on holiday it’s never been an issue for more than about 5 minutes. Your brain just switches. I actually found it worse being in a British RHD car in France and Spain than driving a rental, because I was on the wrong side of the…

I know BMW back ~2012 used to offer 3 ‘tiers’ of lighting- a base halogen, then regular xenon, and a top level ‘adaptive’ xenon. My dad had a 2012 3-series, he sprung for the mid-tier headlamps which were great. He didn’t bother with the adaptive ones. Wouldn’t be surprised if they were the same units, just everything…

We have plenty of 100mph level crossings here in the UK. And in 2018-19, the last proper year without Covid messing things up, a grand total of 2 people died on level crossings across the entire very expansive network.

I think level crossings would be a good use of red light camera type technology. Unlike with a red light, where often the accidents caused by people jumping them are because they’ve completely missed the presence of the red light in its entirety, going around the barrier is a clear decision made. Teach the local…

Adaptive Cruise Control and some good podcasts.

Kind of looks like an oversized VW Up. Shame it won’t come as a fun GTI version!

I can’t say I’ve noticed any particular song or anything like that, but I have noticed that Android Auto is a buggy mess for me at the moment. Voice control is laughably inaccurate to how it used to be, and for some reason it sometimes decides to read back things in an American voice (I’m British). It does randomly…

Got to love the original Quattro. A family friend of ours has one, in red, and it’s amazing. 

Is that the ‘50' or the ‘55'? I’ve not heard that they have too much issues with missing the official figures by a crazy amount, but the ‘50' model has a much shorter range. On the WLTP cycle the ‘50' gets about 190 miles, whereas the ‘55' gets 250 or so. Which of course is going to be less in real world use.

What’s being seen though is that if you look after the batteries with good thermal management (IE, active heating/cooling of the batteries, like most new EVs have) the battery degredation isn’t bad. The ones that have had issues are things like the Nissan Leaf which doesn’t have active thermal management, and as such…

The new Astra is going to be available as pure EV too. Great looking car! (never thought I’d say that about an Astra!)

Not quite sure what Stellantis are bitching about to be honest. They sell a LOT of EVs in Europe - the Citroen eC4, DS3 e-tense, Peugeot e-208, e-2008, Opel/Vauxhall e-Corsa, e-Mokka, Fiat 500e, and I’m sure some I’m forgetting too. All selling well and the new 308/Astra will have pure EV versions too.

I (British) have been called the same thing about my fiance (American). Despite the fact that it’s him moving to the UK, not the other way round.

I’m 30 and I wholeheartedly agree with you. Nothing to do with boomers, just people who who want to drive and do so safely rather than jumping on the latest hype trend. 

It’s.... fine.

Immobilisers aren’t standard in the US? They’ve been mandated in the UK since 1998!