Only one EV charger at home?!

And then there's 'motorboatin'

Automotive engineers have been working for years to get the Cd down and people mount barn doors on the roof. I'm partial to hatchbacks and I have a Montague Paratrooper. The bike folds nicely and goes into the car. No roof racks, no rack hung off the stern which may be almost as bad aerodynamically.

I do have a kayak. It's inflatable and it goes into the car too.

The root of “motor” is the Latin movere, which means “to move,” which is a pretty literal definition of what a “motor” does.

Automobiles move people, it motors them along.

It's not even a thing. I'm fairly sure they don't use motor to specifically mean combustion engines. there are many other types of motors.

Why bring up "engine" when trying to define "motor"? Are logiocal fallacies all you have to defend your argument with?

What is so, try to explain it clearly this time.

That reminds me of underwater chainsaws, that use air motors.

And rocket motors. And protein motors, some of which spin at 100,000 RPM.

Smells are the easiest things to remember, and the most likely to invoke a fond memory. I think swimming pool as soon as I use chlorine bleach.

I would not go into a garage and say "the motor in my car has seized" if it was a petrol engine. Only an American would confuse the two.

I would not go into a garage and say "the motor in my car has seized" if it was a petrol engine. Only an American would confuse the two.

MPG is displayed on the dash on any car from about 1988 onwards. Last time I checked, anything up to 55mph in an auto was identical, then it dropped off quickly. Lower speeds in towns are not less efficient like the myth tells us.

I would fit a secondary tank.

But taking them on and off is a hassle and asking to wear out the connections.

Inflatable? That's a kid's toy. I have solid ones, one of them sliced a deer in half when he ran in front of me. I was only doing 90mph.

time I checked, anything up to 55mph in an auto was identical, then it dropped off quickly. Lower speeds in towns are not less efficient like the myth tells us.

My current 2018 Toyota is the first car I've owned that displayed MPG. Even then it's a function it the odometer display that you can scroll to with the button and not very convenient. Neither the 2007 or 2011 versions of the model had it, nor did the 2000 Metro (rebranded Suzuki)

I did put an aftermarket tank on the DR650. There are places I go on the MT/ID divide where I'd hit the point of no return and would have to continue on to a town in Idaho to refuel.

The Toyota gets about 300 miles on a tank but there are places where you can either stop with a little more than a quarter tank or trust your luck to make it to the next town. For example it's 93 miles from Dillon Montana to Dubois Idaho. Feeling lucky?

You wouldn't be in that situation unless it was a British built petrol engine. Come to think of it, are there any British owned car manufacturers any more or just German and Indian firms using British labor?

Live a little.

Ownership is today fairly irrelevant.

My British designed and assembled Landrover Freelander used a gearbox from Japan, a German BMW engine, electronics from Korea, and the parent company is TATA from India..

My current jaguar is similarly diverse...the engine is an adapted unit from PSA...

That is the reality of globalisation.

The reality is that Britain is a small market, and its not worth manufacturing for mass production here any more because of Leftist legislation.

Instead what manufacturing we do is highly specialised and very expensive - stuff like jet engines, precisions pumps for pumping gas for undersea wells, high tech lab equipment, earth moving equipment and so on.

There are some *specialist* car manufacturers - Morgan, McLaren, TVR, Ginetta, and of course Ricardo plc is at least headquartered in the UK, and is behind many vehicle designs all over the world.

Turning out mass produced consumer s*it is something we leave to the USA and China

After arising from the dead, Triumph was promising but today some, if not all, models are referred to a Thairumps. I can't say much; my '98 Harley won't go too far if I took the Japanese parts off. Of course all the bling in the store is Chinese.

Is Lotus still produced in Britain or did Geely drag manufacturing home?

It's produced here, but it's owners are IIRC far east. Malaysia? It makes almost nothing apart from chassis and bodies. The rest is sourced from other companies.