Steering wheel on the wrong side!
Not wrong in Japan
The Last Surviving Japanese Porsche 912 Police Car
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
1/3 of the planets population drives on the left mate. (Incidentally, if a country drives on the left then as a general rule of thumb, they also play cricket. I've no idea why this might be the case.)
I’d say it’s because cricket is British and driving on the other side is British too?
I really had no idea. Give that man a coconut.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why? Because you could afford one? Or because you everyone else could? If your love for them was based on other people not having one, and not for love of the machine, can you really call yourself a fan?
Note I said “almost completely”. You also decided to interpret my response as I only cared about scarcity..which is a choice. To answer: There’s only so many times you want to strike up a friendly conversation with a driver about their lovely car, only to be met with them having no clue about their bespoke vehicle, or even worse - the pitted feeling that they are somehow superior. Porsche drivers in most of places I’…
then again, you what Alcantara is.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
My love for Porsche almost completely stopped as soon as I moved to the Bay Area.
Why? Because you could afford one? Or because you everyone else could? If your love for them was based on other people not having one, and not for love of the machine, can you really call yourself a fan?
Because of the kind of other people who had them and how he felt that reflected on him.
Having a cool old project car is less cool when everyone else is some jerk who bought into it.
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#55Steering wheel on the wrong side!
1/3 of the planets population drives on the left mate. (Incidentally, if a country drives on the left then as a general rule of thumb, they also play cricket. I've no idea why this might be the case.)
I'm from India and had to Google these guys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_national_cricket_team
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#57Steering wheel on the wrong side!
1/3 of the planets population drives on the left mate. (Incidentally, if a country drives on the left then as a general rule of thumb, they also play cricket. I've no idea why this might be the case.)
The car in the article has the steering wheel on the left, which is the wrong side for vehicles driving on the left-hand side of the road. Domestically-produced cars in both the UK and Japan have the steering wheel on the right.
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#59I really need James May to explain its entire service history to me.