Meanwhile in the 21st century, motor for electricity, engine for petrol.
Meanwhile in the 21st century, motor for electricity, engine for petrol.
I say car, not automobile. I ain't Latin.
Not sure why people find driving on the other side difficult. I did it naturally when I went to France. Even drove through Paris in the rush hour. Doing things in reverse is no different than shaving in a mirror. You don't go and move the razor left instead of right, your brain can cope with a simple direction swap. Maybe it's women who can't do it, although they must put make up on in a mirror?
I find driving twice as fast as other people makes them give you priority.
I love the way they cross out village names as you leave. Quite useful actually when you're trying to find your way, to know what you just went through.
That's fine as long as they give you time to notice them. If they simply indicate right 1 second before they turn, what are you to do?
Both that and the French rule are simply enforcements of politeness. I don't understand the lack of politeness. I can be driving along at say 10-15mph in a heavy queue on a main road, and I can see about 20 cars ahead of me not letting someone out or across. I always let people out, every single time.
Not sure why people find driving on the other side difficult. I did it naturally when I went to France. Even drove through Paris in the rush hour. Doing things in reverse is no different than shaving in a mirror. You don't go and move the razor left instead of right, your brain can cope with a simple direction swap. Maybe it's women who can't do it, although they must put make up on in a mirror?
I find driving twice as fast as other people makes them give you priority.
Not sure why people find driving on the other side difficult. I did it naturally when I went to France. Even drove through Paris in the rush hour. Doing things in reverse is no different than shaving in a mirror. You don't go and move the razor left instead of right, your brain can cope with a simple direction swap. Maybe it's women who can't do it, although they must put make up on in a mirror?
I find driving twice as fast as other people makes them give you priority.
That's fine as long as they give you time to notice them. If they simply indicate right 1 second before they turn, what are you to do?
Both that and the French rule are simply enforcements of politeness. I don't understand the lack of politeness. I can be driving along at say 10-15mph in a heavy queue on a main road, and I can see about 20 cars ahead of me not letting someone out or across. I always let people out, every single time.
That's fine as long as they give you time to notice them. If they simply indicate right 1 second before they turn, what are you to do?
Both that and the French rule are simply enforcements of politeness. I don't understand the lack of politeness. I can be driving along at say 10-15mph in a heavy queue on a main road, and I can see about 20 cars ahead of me not letting someone out or across. I always let people out, every single time.
The French f*ck it up. When I managed to beach my small car on a beach (people were camping there), a Frenchman helping me to push it out said in broken English "the moteur is stuck in the sand". Maybe he meant my starter motor?
All of which need the adjective.
Can they not use electric motors?
The only engine I've ever seized was a Renault. By driving it in a heatwave in France. Wasn't entirely the engine's fault, it was caused by the sheer stupidity of the water cooling which could very easily and very suddenly airlock.
My second bicycle was a Peugeot, I didn't think it was the same company. Why would a car company stoop to bicycles?
Peugeot made bicycles long before they made cars. I think Grimaldi in Sweden has the brand now.
They also made motorcycles and scooters but a German holding company has the scooters now.
Peugeots are sold in Mexico but you'd have a better chance of sneaking a kilo of fentanyl into the US than a Peugeot.
Columbo has been seen driving a Peugeot 403 Cabriolet.
Why did Messerschmitt, the German aircraft company, "stoop" to making bubble cars:
(Oh yes, WW2.)
It's Latin and (ancient) Greek, via French.
The same reason Heinkel and BMW made bubble cars.
My brother had a 404 that he really liked. As far as the US is concerned, the 505 was the last model and imports stopped in 1990.
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