> Well, I've seen and even driven lots of Nissans, but never one called a Micra. I wouldn't know a Vectra if it parked on my foot. That leads me to believe that these are sold only in some island nation in the eastern North Atlantic. So I gotta ask, Dude, have you ever seen a Hudson Jet? or a Crosley? or a Kaiser Manhatten? or a Nash? or a Packard Clipper? I won't even ask about a Henry J.

I'd imagine that there's a big difference in the marketing of cars between the US and the UK - the fact that I thought half of the cars you mentioned were actually obscure cocktails pretty much confirms this...

> But, I never figured out how anybody could drive sitting over there on the right.

Left hand drive would be really odd to me. Especially operating the gearstick with my right hand. But apparently the pedals are arranged the same way - I would have thought the clutch, brake and accelerator would have been reversed.

>I also wondered why cars in London don't have as >many dents as the ones in American cities.

We have specially-trained teams of monkeys who prowl the streets at night who carefully hammer out all the dents of the previous day. Best thing the government ever invested in.

Bourne