Only one EV charger at home?!

So many Americans can't bring themselves to say the word S*IT or EXCREMENT and say "poop".

In the UK, "poop" is something you'd hear a 3 year old say - "I need to poop!"

We actually have four at the moment. The MG4 EV is the everyday car. The Vauxhall Zafira is the long-distance/tow/7-seater/carrying DIY materials car and also the spare for if my disabled wife wants to go out while I am at work. The Chevrolet Matiz (currently off the road pending an MOT) is only retained for teaching my sons to drive (three sons, each two years from the next). The Robin Hood kit-car is just for fun and also awaiting an MOT when the weather gets better.

In America perhaps, hence "get your ass over here". The most important part of an American is their ass.

Maybe it's a misunderstanding and they mean the ass you rode into town on. An ass being a donkey. An arse being what you sit on.

Including police. Mind you an American policeman has an average IQ of only 104.

So you could carry a pin round with you if you're an obese lazy American and urgently need a doughnut.

There's one somewhere around Petersfield on the A3 west of London. One man garage, does car repairs and sells petrol.

Where did you locate the accelerator pedal for the pump? Every pump I've seen pumps at a fixed speed.

Then how come I've seen videos of big fires? I think usually it must have been pumping. You see, the nozzle isn't there to block it anymore.

Not that absent minded. When I had a car without the little thing to hold the petrol cap on, I left it lying at a petrol station 15 times in 6 months.

No, they don't break in half, I've seen pumps yanked out of the ground. Then you have that open pipe....

They bothered with all that instead of just simply requiring the customer to hold onto it? Just how lazy are Americans?

With ours is depends upon the mode set (ECO, Normal, Sport) and the regeneration level set (None, medium, Strong). I generally have it set to give more "engine braking" than an ICE car, but not so much that it catches me out.

Many of us were taught to change down through the gears and use engine braking for almost all stops, including around town. These days they tend to rely on brakes and just change down to whatever gear they expect to need as the set off or speed up again.

I don't think that the Leaf works the same. It won't slow much without the brake pedal. The regen energy seems not very efficient. Perhaps i need additional wheel alternators.

My kids are currently learning on a manual. If they learned on an automatic, they'd be blocked from driving the majority of second-hand cars, classic cars, my kit-car, most vans and (assuming that recent consultation leads to a change back to the old rules, 7.5t trucks).

Modern machines are very quiet anyway. Our tumble-dryer is almost inaudible. The (direct drive) washing machine is unnoticeable when talking and hardly gets any louder when spinning!

You certainly don't notice them in the next room - even with the doors open.

Or the driver behind you... At least in the US it takes brake lights to convince some drivers you're slowing down. On a bike I often flick the brake even though I can almost come to a complete stop running down through the gears.

The brake lights do activate if there a deceleration from regeneration greater than about 0.2g. That is a Federal requirement and similar requirements exist for other countries.

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That's another Lotus Seven variant? I only knew about Caterham. Getting one of those into the US is an arcane process.

"Get your ass over here". is a boss talking to an employee who messed up something and is going to hear about it. Or it might just be between co workers, maybe friends. The speaker is expressing displeasure. "Come over here" is more of a polite request.

There are a couple around here. A friend who was a quadriplegic but could drive a specially fitted van used them. CostCo has an attendant that will help handicapped people with no extra charge. The other full service stations charged more for the gasoline but when operating the pump isn't an option it was worth the few cents more. Some able bodied people who were above the task also went to them.

That's 20 points higher than most of those he deals with.

I would guess it's the 'hot hatchback' segment like the Civic Type R, Golf GTI, and GR Corolla rather than small foreign cars in general. Oddly the Mazda 3 Turbo only comes with a 6 speed AT. That would appeal to the youth market Cindy mentioned.

I don't care for 4 door hatchbacks or I wouldn't mind one. I'd love a GR Yaris but that ain't happening in the US.

Plain vanilla small foreign cars are mostly AT.

Not only that but modern ATs often get better mileage than MTs for the all important EPA fleet bullshit.