Only one EV charger at home?!

No car is boring when you go well over the speed limit.

No it doesn't. It is comparing the effect of the individual shoes. "Leading and trailing brake shoes are as capable of stopping the reverse motion as they are of stopping forward motion." This means brakes with one of each. Leading shoes "dig" in to the drum and so have more braking effect. jon was referring to brakes where they are all leading (when the car is travelling forward) In the reverse direction they will be all trailing. (I think the original Mini had twin leading shoes on the front brakes. I don't know whether this was a problem reversing as the rear brakes were leading/trailing).

A lot of it was the 'safety' or EPA requirements. Renault, Peugeot, and Citroen always were very minor players so the market wasn't worth the effort.

Peugeot did okay in the US for a while. For people of my generation Renault is associated with the Dauphine, not a good pairing.

Having every single one one way round seems insane, so you can hardly stop in reverse? How did that pass the safety requirements?

Well, you will have much less brake force from the front brake when backing up, so it will take more for pressure for the same deceleration.

So you're faulty then.

I had a 1976 Mini at one time.

The problem I had with the brakes was they always needed mending. I must have changed all 6 slave cylinders at least once in the time I had it :(

But braking while reversing was never an issue. After all I reverse at maybe a tenth of my max forward speed. (which is about 60MPH in a Mini!)

Andy

It doesn't need 1st. It used the torque convertor to start in 2nd.

I've driven an auto VW Golf, Honda CRV, and Range Rover. None of them behaved as you said, in fact they were much quicker to overtake and pull out of junctions, since they instantly jumped into the lowest gear possible as soon as I accelerated. In a manual I either have to waste time changing gear before overtaking, or sit in a low gear waiting for the gap. Your car was very faulty and you should have returned it.

The thing is they could most likely understand it. But we can't understand them. Educated English don't have an accent, they have a lack of it (because of higher intelligence).

You have a manual transmssion with a very high ratio, slowing down is easy. the brakes are only needed so stop from slow,

I still went full tilt into a gatepost when turning round in a hurry in my father's pre-war Sumbeam Talbot 10. That had rod-operated Bendix brakes which were useless in reverse. At first sight they looked like one leading and one training shoe on each wheel but there was some linkage between the shoes which made then behave like twin leading shoes

- and twin trailing shoes in reverse!

Then don't stop so unexpectedly.

If you want a bigger gap, move faster, why do you blame them? The distance between you can be adjusted by either driver.

I don't brake for people like you, I report you for insurance fraud.

Why would you need to use the tail light?

I used the reverse lights to signal to the person behind me they really shouldn't have their lights on during the day. The Sierra turned it on as you moved the gearstick to the left, before going up to engage the gear, so I could flash them.

Why not just undertake? That really annoys them.

Then tailgate them and pass on the message.

Are you a girl?

The aircon would have long since died. Aircon is s*it in a house, in a vibrating car it doesn't last.