Not my sort of car at all...

Mrs H getting one then? How much are the door mirrors?

Just reading the Top Gear review. First time I've seen the word "sluice" used in a car review.

I'd still rather have an ordinary Focus than one of these bloated Fiestas. My sluicing requirements are minimal, and my Civic Tourer does the "surprise storage area under the boot floor" trick really well already. And it's a proper estate car with proper load length and associated capability.

Crossover schmossover.

From that review:

"The back seat is about as roomy as a Focus’s, but there are no vents or USB points out there".

Focus, please.

There's something I adore about the utter dreadfulness of Yank cars. Hilarious beasts. As a car obsessed 7 year old, when I first crossed the Atlantic to Canada, I was utterly smitten. Of course I wouldn't consider owning such a thing in the UK, but had I ever settled over there, I'd have had to have bought something of the sort, even if it was just to get it out of my system. Massive V8 saloon of some kind, Crown Victoria or similar, preferably something Chevy or Chrysler for the extra bad taste. One of those huge two-door things with square headlights and dark red velour armchairs for seats, the sort of vehicle beloved of middle management gangsters in movies like Goodfellas, that sort of thing. Can't even name any come to think of it, but I can picture them. Stupid vinyl roofs and silly portholes on the C-pillars - and preferably no B-pillar at all.

Ah.

Where are you to be driving such a thing, BPG? Art thou in Trumpenland?

As for Mrs Al, she's delighted with the Civic Tourer.  It is a massive hit.  She is as unkeen on SUVs as I am.  I think we were more thinking about Mrs Humph liking this daft new Puma thing.

Yes I know, but saying he's driving a Chevy Malibu at the moment made me think he's perhaps on holiday in the States? A Chevy Malibu could be in Germany of course, but I can't imagine they're that common.

It's the liquid kind of Malibu that I ignore. I have a weird aversion to coconut.

1979 Calgary.

Espada III and parents arrive at an Avis rental depot to take a car over the Rockies to Vancouver. After being give a pile of rubbish we return to depot and are given a brand new Chrysler Le Baron, enormous V8 sedan. Absolutely the perfect car the wide open spaces of North America. Totally impractical anywhere else.

Arriving in Vancouver we change to a Pontiac Monte Carlo (with Opera windows!) and then from Seattle a Plymouth Volare with a 'slant 6'. That took us to San Diego via San Francisco. The up and downs of SanFran got us the mighty economy of 6mpg Imperial! Yes SIX miles per gallon. Luckily petrol was about 25ppg, so say 6p per litre...

Yes, I'm in the land of the Trump.
Gas prices have jumped since I was here last summer. $3.69 per US gallon. The orange man with shredded wheat hair recent exploits in the Middle East being felt here ?
Still not as bad as DE where I paid 1.46€ per litre for Super+ just before I left.
Diesel and regular unleaded are the same price in DE which is not something I've ever seen in over 20 years. Diesel is usually around 15% cheaper.