This is an extremely busy road where the speed limit is 90 kph (55 mph), with only one lane in each direction but a wide hard shoulder. If a vehicle who's traveling at 25 kph has a safe area to ride on, why must the rider insist on sharing the same road as an automobile driving between 60 and 90? Don't they see how dangerous it is for them? It becomes even worse with two riders going side by side, and we don't have room to overtake them because there's a car coming from the opposite direction.

A brother of an old schoolmate of mine died a few years ago on that same road because he was hit by a car whose driver didn't see him and his bike. This wouldn't have happened if he had been on the hard shoulder.

These are the laws, they are ignored. Am I supposed to make it easy for cyclists? Why?

"Bike lane"? In my country "bike lane" is the lane divider where bikers drive around cars when there's traffic in the motorway. So, ok, it's true we hardly have places strictly for cyclists, but then again, I don't actually have a problem with cyclists on city streets (even if they don't stop in street lights -- they just go on the sidewalk and use the crosswalk on the intersection).

Which is why I find completely retarded for those idiots who insist on going to the national roads, where speed limits are 90 kph, and instead of using the wide hard shoulders we have on Portuguese roads (which are wide enough to park a semi), they want to hog the 90 kph lane. Does that make sense to you?

Besides, although it's actually legislated that bicycles need to have a license plate to drive outside sidewalks (or the two or three bike lanes that exist in the country), it's not enforced and they don't it. When I was 14, I got a bicycle/moped license and put a plate on my bike just so I could drive outside the cul-de-sac I lived in. Why the middle class adults who can afford the late model bicycles and fake team jerseys don't feel the need to be responsible this way is beyond my ability to comprehend. I haven't seen a bicycle with a plate in over 10 years.

Goddamned pedal pushers switch between the sidewalk on the road whenever it's convenient, don't respect street lights, don't respect stop signs, drive in pairs blocking half of the lane, don't know what hand signals are, don't carry ID, don't have license plates.

I have to deal with them every single sunday when I'm trying to drive to work and all the fucking douches come out of the fucking cave with their latest model bicycles, fake professional team jerseys and lycra shorts.

I have to pay a tax to be allowed to drive my car every year, I have to pay all kinds of insurance. What happens when they cause an accident?

"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

Should I invite her to ride in my car if my plate says LMN PRTY?

Y'all just needs ta start sellin' 'em at haff-deesunt pryceez an' keep menshunin' them myle per gallin figgers an' y'all be rite wiv'em at no extree cost. Y'hear?

Hey, I didn't even remember Asia Motors! Thanks for reminding me (Asia Rocsta FTW).

The current Bongo is actually based on the previous generation Hyundai H-1. Which I'm not sure if it's a 100% Hyundai design or if it's still a Mitsubishi underneath.

But since the current Mitsubishi Delica is actually a Mazda Bongo, it's all in the family.

Asian LCV badge engineering is even more confusing than GM passenger vehicle badge engineering.

We should just start calling them Wiedeking Motors. At least put some other badge in them, like NSU or something.

GM-Daewoo does though. I think it's called the Daewoo Labo.

But I wouldn't make a cee'damino. If it were up to me the pick-up would be based on the Kia Picanto.

Since Dutchman Jaap van Lagen is slightly faster than Russian Andrey Smetsky, I'm expecting he'll be oh... four seconds off the pace. It'll be a fight with the Liqui Moly Team BMWs for the last position.

In that case, you need a Ford Ka. The Focus is the sort of car you need to drive 70% on the city under 3500 RPM and another 70% on the highway, because you need to baby it and keep it in an enclosed garage.

And it will arrive in 2010 or 2011? I'm expecting the next-gen Focus to hit European shores in 2010 or 2011.

Mmmm, Rule34ing Susie and Milka in my head right now. Nope, it's Susie, Milka and Danica after all. And that horse-racing chick who also races cars, Liz Halliday.

In order to be forgiven, you need to be stripped naked, spanked by prostitutes in fascistic military uniform...

Oh, wait, you already did that.

Ah, never mind.

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What in the name of Tony Amendola was that? I must have it.

I need to put that thing into Encyclopedia Dramatica now. By posting this, Jalopnik has made 7chan's /b/tards look like amateurs.

It's psychadelically ugly, expensive as fuck, driven by rich twats, and has more power than you'll ever need. The mileage is the icing on the cake.

And now making USA/rotw claims, in Europe, Diesel is usually cheaper than gas. Here in Portugal, it's about 25% more favorable to Diesel. Right now unleaded is, according to my maths, $8.11/gallon.