Comments by "Module 79L" (@module79l28) on "IWrocker" channel.

  1. The thing you need to realise, Ian, is that everyone who learns English as a second language is automatically bilingual. The fact that millions of people speak at least two languages might be surprising for US americans but for us non-native English speakers is kind of the minimum requirement. 🙂
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  2. Kinder eggs: illegal Kids handling guns: perfectly normal and accepted
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  3. It looks like the guy who made the video didn't ask anyone and just assumed it was a solid sheet. 😅
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  4. Oh boy, Ian, the tuned diesel culture in Europe is not a rabbit hole, it's a freakin' tunnel! And I'm not even talking about the even crazier diesel drag racing scene!😄 The 1320 YT channel did a video in Santa Pod (UK) last year and the presenter looked so lost amongst the "sea" of unknown (for him) cars and models. As someone who knows about the heavy presence of portuguese drivers in the UK's drag racing scene, I found that video hilarious but entertaining at the same time. 😀
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  5. Wow, the Slovak word for police (Polícia) is written exactly like in Portuguese! 😲
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  6. 2:00 - They all sounded different because of this: - Audi: 2.1L turbo inline 5 - Peugeot 205 T16: 1.8L turbo inline 4 - Lancia 037: 2.0L supercharged inline 4 - Lancia Delta S4: 1.8L turbo + supercharged inline 4 - Renault 5 Turbo: 1.4L turbo inline 4 - Metro 6R4: 3.0 N/A V6 - Toyota Celica: 2.0L turbo inline 4 - Ford RS200: 1.8L turbo inline 4 - Opel Manta 400: 2.4L N/A inline 4 You can see that some have the same engine configuration but there were other differences that explain the different sounds of similar engines. 3:03 - The Opel Manta 400 was not that little, it was approximately the size of the Audi or the Toyota Celica (and this answers your 3:40 question). 😉 5:10 - Well, I can (two Rally Portugal "under my belt": 1984 and 1985) but the sounds, the smells and the whole experience is impossible to describe in words. Disclaimer: I still have all my fingers. 😄
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  7. Recently I was watching a "US college students can't answer simple questions" type of video where one of the questions asked was where is Hawaii located. Everyone in the video said it was in North America, so I posted a comment saying "despite being a US state, Hawaii is not in North America, it's part of the sub-region of Polynesia, located in Oceania". The first reply I got was from someone I'm 100% sure was from the US because they wrote this: "Um, Hawaii is a U.S. state and the U.S. is in North America. Try again." 🤦‍♂
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  8. The S4 didn't end Group B, it was Toivonen's accident that did it, he could've been driving any of the Group B cars at the time and still had the accident because there were more factors involved than simply the car. The end of the Group B started a few months earlier with Joaquim Santos' accident in Portugal, Henri and Sergio's death was just the last straw.
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  9. 11:20 - Initially Seat made a Cupra version of several of its models, as the performance version, but then they decided to turn it into an actual brand.
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  10. The best thing about a standardised traffic signs' system, which the US refused to adhere to, is that I can drive all the way from Portugal to India without knowing many of the languages that exist on the way and still know what the traffic signs mean.
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  11. Here in Portugal it's common to see farm owners or people who have properties in the countryside, still driving their 90's, 80's and even 70's Toyota Land Cruisers, Ian, and they're usually diesel, which makes them even more reliable and durable. I really feel for you guys in the US for not knowing what you missed out on.
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  12. Portuguese here. You're confusing two things, Ian: tap water and bottled water. Only bottled water is paid, tap water is always free. Do they give bottled water for free in the US? Many people here go to a coffee shop or a bakery to have a coffee and a glass of water and that water is always free. However, only the bottled water that comes in closed containers is paid: there's a restaurant where I go 3 times a week for lunch in my city that has a machine to filter and better the tap water, so when I ask for water they bring me a glass bottle with a cap (that's supplied by the same company that supplies the machine) filled with water from that machine and that water is free. Those types of machines are everywhere, even in our Parliament.
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  13. The engine blur is there for the same reason they don't disclose the power and torque numbers in the videos: they're race cars.
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  14. 11:00 - That's the Sagrada Familia temple in Barcelona. The construction started in March 19, 1882 and it's still not finished yet. 😄 11:13 - That's the Commerce Square in Lisbon. It's called that because it was where all the trading of goods brought by the ships took place, before it was destroyed by the 1775 earthquake. When the city was rebuilt they maintained the square in the same place and kept its name. 🙂 13:09 - What he means is that our lifts don't carry 4 people of his size but they have no problem fitting 4 average europeans.
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  15. This is from a TV show, that's why you get narration, different footage, more cameras and different angles that you normally won't see in the raw POV police chases you've reacted so far.
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  16. 2:40 - Fun Fact, Ian: that "little" Skoda has the mythical 5-cylinder engine and the Quattro transmission swap from an Audi RS3. 3:00 - If you want to know the insane power figures of that Golf you should react to some of Hillclimb Monsters' videos, that car is featured in almost all of them. Their videos usually consist of a top 10 or 15 cars from one class, so you'll know in what place they finished, and they always have lots of information about each car. This is a very good way for you to be acquainted with the vehicles that you're not familiar with, as well as with all the crazy stuff they do in terms of engines and transmissions. Plus, their videos are short and you can watch them without skipping around. In fact, I'm sure you'll be so captivated that you won't even think about doing it. 😀 4:30 - It's the same Skoda from 2:40! 🙂
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  17. The one in the middle, everything else is a beer pouring sacrilege.
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  18. 1:33 - The water you see here is the Tagus River estuary, not very far from its mouth. The open area is called Commerce Square. Before the 1755 earthquake it was the place where spices, tea, slaves and all sorts of products coming from far away places were traded. After the reconstruction of the city it was modernised and all those yellow buildings surrounding it housed some of the government's ministeries. Nowadays they have trendy, touristy shops. 2:05 - This ambulance belongs to the National Institute of Medical Emergency (INEM in Portuguese), a branch of the Health Ministry dedicated to emergency transportation of sick or injured people. They're usually the first responders in emergency scenarios. 2:28 - The red ambulances belong to the Fire Departments, in this case the Ajuda FD (Ajuda is one of Lisbon's neighbourhoods). 6:13 -That's a Yamaha XJ 900. 🙂 6:48 - The INEM station wagon following the ambulance is called Resuscitation and Emercency Medical Vehicle (VMER in Portuguese) and its purpose is to quickly carry a medical team to the location where the patient is, for 1st aid, CPR or to stabilise the patient before the ambulance arrives. 7:10 - That's a tow truck from the Municipal Police, not the normal tow truck used for vehicle recovery (which are flat bed trucks here in Portugal). 😉 There's another channel called rescue911.eu that has compilations of videos with lots of different emergency vehicles filmed in the Porto area. They're around 5 mins long, so no need to skip around. 🙂
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  19. 9:12 - I think that the person who didn't agree that Egypt was in Africa is in the Nile, Ian. See what I did here? 😉😆
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  20. That engine is capable of more than 1000nm, they limited the torque to that number exactly to "preserve" the gearbox.
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  21. Rally Portugal is a gravel rally, drivers know what they're going to be up against when they come here. That's why many of them consider it to be one of the toughest rallies in the calendar. Oh, and about your pronunciation of Matosinhos: it was very close but not quite. I saw you struggled with the "nh" sound but since you know a bit of Spanish, it has the same sound as the "ñ" in Spanish. 🙂
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  22. 2:30 - Fun Fact: when Citröen launched this model (which we called "Arrastadeira" here in Portugal), there was rumour that they would give a fortune to whoever managed to flip it over because they were sure it was unflippable. That "challenge" was abandoned when someone found out that it could be done by reversing at full speed and then turn the wheels all the way to one side. 😄 3:20 - Here in Portugal we lovingly call it "boca de sapo" (freely translated to "frog's face", even though the literal translation is "frog's mouth"). For some time they were assembled in the now PSA factory of Mangualde, in Central Portugal. 14:29 - In that particular model that's the parking brake, in the early models the parking brake was a push-pull lever underneath the dash, next to the steering column. What he meant by semi-automatic gearbox was that you don't need to have a manually operated clutch to shift gears. They were called clutchless manual transmissions. Jay Leno's has a standard manual gearbox, hence the "extra" pedal. 22:30 - Jay Leno had the steering headlights retrofitted in his DS because for some stupid reason they were forbidden in the US.
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  23. Here in Portugal, EVERY house, old or new, has a bidet in the bathroom and if it has two bathrooms, each one has a bidet. 😄 It's also very useful to wash your feet. 😀
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  24.  @SainteHorus  - Correct, he even posted a comment on the video apologising for the mistake.
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  25. Yeah. 😄
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  26. 19:58 - Commercial means they are work vehicles, usually with only two seats and a cargo area in the back.
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  27. Gives a whole new meaning to FOOTage, doesn't it? 😆 Btw, those scenes were all from Rally Portugal. In Walter's own words, this is how he described the portuguese spectators: “You just had to try and forget that the walls at the side of the road were made out of people: instead you simply focussed on the road ahead and tried to think of it as a tunnel.” I'm portuguese but I'm not proud that my fellow country men and women ultimately caused Group B's demise.
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  28. 10:30 - The reason for all those lights is that in many european countries emergency vehicles can't use sirens during the night, unless it's a big emergency, so if they can't be heard they have to make sure they're seen. 🙂
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  29. Milk chocolate is not basic chocolate, basic chocolate is just chocolate with nothing else added.
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  30. 19:35 - The Renault Twizzy is not a car, it's an electric quadricycle, so it doesn't count.
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  31. It's the "freedom" mindset, they think that it goes against their personal freedoms if the government imposes a mandatory annual inspection or starts putting limits to what vehicle owners can do to their vehicles.
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  32. Well, you recognised Greek, which is pretty good, and considering you were playing exclusively with EU countries, there were only two options: Greece or Cyprus. Also, next time you play bear in mind that one country may appear multiple times. 🙂
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  33. Told ya, it doesn't take much to become addicted to hillclimbing! 😉 Not only I'm subscribed to Hillclimb Monsters' channel but I've also been following them almost since their beginning because they're my countrymen's channel (portuguese). Btw, the clips with the red tapes blocking the roadside are from our round of the European Hillclimb Championship, which takes place in Braga (northwestern Portugal). 🙂
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  34. You don't have to go that far in Europe to find that the "small" portions (or normal, like you said) have double (or triple) the nutritious value of the big US portion sizes.
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  35. Here in Portugal it's only legal to cross a street outside of the designated crossing places as long as the spot where the pedestrian is crossing is more than 50m away from the nearest crosswalk but it's their duty to make sure they can cross safely. In this case drivers don't have to yield to them, only in the designated crossing places. However, this is not considered jaywalking, the concept of jaywalking only applies to pedestrians who cross the street less than 50m away from the nearest crossing place. This rule, however, is kind of dumb because it doesn't take into account that no pedestrian can eyeball accurate distances. Are they supposed to carry a 50m measuring tape with them to make sure they're not jaywalking? 😆
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  36. 8:14 - Not only it's an Audi but it's also ELECTRIC! 🤯
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  37. I remember seeing electric shutters in more fancy houses/apartments in the mid 90's here in Portugal and they already had individual controls in each room. More recently I've seen them in less fancy/expensive constructions too. As for the manual ones, I live in a 60 year old house that had them since it was built.
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  38. The guys in the video over-dramatised a lot of things that even I, who are not german, know aren't like that.
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  39. 2:25 - Do you know why they derive from the same original DNA, Ian? Because the VW Beetle was created by a certain engineer called Ferdinand Porsche, who worked at VW at the time. 😉 DTM stands for Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, so it's basically the german touring car championship. 🙂
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  40.  @Snaakie83  - I know all that but what are the chances that a Slavik language spells the word letter by letter like we do? Even the accent (´) is in the same letter! I'd expect it to be more similar to the Czech "policie" or the Slovene "policija" or the Polish "policja".
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  41. There's one thing you need to be aware of when reading the nutrition table, Ian: did you notice that it says "sugars" and not "sugar"? That's because it includes all sugars, added and natural. When you see a product that has no added sugars but still has, let's say, 10g or 15g of sugars per 100ml, it means they're all natural, good sugars that are present in the natural ingredients. In Tropicana's case, since the added sugar is cane sugar (assuming it's not completely messed up), those 26g of sugars might not be all that bad and they might even be better than the other beverages that have refined sugar added.
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  42. By the sound of it, the Toyota probably has their N/A V8 that's also used in the Lexus LC500. 🙂 Yes, Andalucía is the southern region of Spain. We also have similar racing here in Portugal (we call them Bajas), with some international events.
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  43. I always find it weird that americans call grocery stores to their huge Wallmarts, Costcos and such. Here in Portugal, grocery stores are the small, traditional, family-run stores in your street or your neighbourhood, the medium-sized stores like Aldi, Lidl, Pingo Doce, Mini Preço or Intermarché are supermarkets and the big one like Continente or E.Leclerc are hypermarkets.
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  44. 8:17 - "See how the numbers gradually get bigger? It looks better that way." There's no logic whatsoever in that reasoning because then you'd have to write all the dates with days that have a smaller number than the month the other way around. Because "it looks better that way."
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  45. 3:15 - Come on, Ian, don't tell me you completely missed the guy's clear irish accent since the beginning of the video! 😲 6:14 - Died out? Self-parking is still a big selling point these days! Even Teslas have it, although it doesn't work all as well as in other brands. Why would car brands abandon any feature that makes drivers even lazier than they are? 😁 11:00 - When Renault, Peugeot or Citröen, which are brands that I'm sure many US americans would recognise, never risked going back to the US market, there's no way VW would do that with a brand like Skoda that's completely unknown to US americans. 11:30 - If there's anything that would prevent european car manufacturers from venturing into the US car market it sure wouldn't be the US crash, safety or emissions' "standards".
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  46. There's nothing in the original video that suggests or says that it was about repos, Ian just wrongly assumed it on his own. In fact, in the description it clearly says that these cars were towed because they were parked in tow-away zones.
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  47. In the area where I live in Portugal there are at least four: one Favorit Forman, one 90's Felicia and two 90's Felicia pickups, a normal one and one Fun model, both with the 1.9 D engine. 🙂
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  48. 2:52 - Yes it is, windows don't go all the way to the floor. 😉 10:44 - It's weird that he saw windows on sale wherever he was in Europe. Here in Portugal, when someone needs to swap old windows or doors for new ones, they just contact one of the many companies that make aluminium doors and windows, they come to the customer's home, take measures and it's all custom made. I don't believe anyone in their right mind would go to a store, buy those types of windows or doors and install them. 😄
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  49. 10:20 - Not that impressive but think about it this way, Ian: the car had 300hp, so that system could increase the power to 315hp when needed. That increase in power, although small, could make the difference between winning or losing stages, even if only by tenths of a second, and in WRC every tenth of a second counts. 🙂
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  50. Unlike the title suggests, it's hasn't been a secret for a looooong time, even outside of Germany. The merge between Aldi and Trader Joe's was also benefitial in the opposite way: we didn't have TJ's products here in Portugal until the Aldi stores started opening in 2006 and contrary to the stereotype that US food sucks, TJ's peanut butter is the best I've ever had. 🙂
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  51. Bands like The Police, Fleetwood Mac, Foreigner or the Pretenders are a bit hard to identiify because they had a mix of UK and US members.
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  52. Mat from Carwow just posted a video reviewing the two top of the range Volvo diesel and electric trucks. He explains everything about the exterior, interior, engine/motor and he even did two 0-56mph (they're limited to that speed in the UK) runs, one with only the tractor and another with a 44 ton trailer. I think you'd really like to watch that one, Ian. 🙂
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  53. I agree, the 2CV6 Club model didn't exist in 1964.
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  54. 3:35 - I can assure that the standards are actually different pretty much all around Europe because we refrigerate our drinks, so we hardly ever need to put ice in them.
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  55. UMM made some of the toughest offroad vehicles, so much so that they used to equip the army and one of our police forces (GNR) and many other public entities for many years. We even raced them in offroad races: we had team racing them on the 4th edition of the Paris-Dakar Rally in 1984 and, believe it or not, we sent another team of UMMs 42 years later! Salvador Caetano is a coach builder, amongst other things. It's famous for being Toyota's official importer and dealer in Portugal, now they represent many brands here.
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  56. Being portuguese and occasionally going to Spain for motorbike meetings before the Euro, I never felt the complications associated with having to trade currency when I went to Spain. I had the good fortune that the exchange rate between our Escudos (the former portuguese currency) and the Peseta (the former spanish currency) was almost 1:1 and our neighbours had no problem accepting our currency for payments there. Mind you that those meetings were usually not very far from the border but in any case, we also accepted Pesetas as a form of payment on our side of the border as well. 🙂
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  57. 10:00 - The Fiat passenger van and the Opel passenger van are basically the same platform, the only differences are the front, the engines and some equipment. If you go back to the profile shot of the Fiat, you'll notice that it's exactly the same.
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  58.  @ESCLuciaSlovakia  - It might not be the only one, we also have the word "milícia" in Portuguese and according to Linguee, it means the same as in Slovak.
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  59. 1:40 - They can drive from Germany to Sweden, you know, but taking the ferry it's probably less expensive. It's all about efficiency. 🙂
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  60. 0:59 - That's how you pronounce Benetton, Ian. 😉 Fun Fact: Benetton is an italian clothing brand (United Colours of Benetton). They started in F1 by sponsoring a few teams (Tyrrell in 1983, Alfa Romeo in 1984 and then a small team called Toleman in 1985, that later became famous for being Senna's first F1 team) but in 1986 they thought "why don't we make our own F1 team?", so they bought Toleman and became Benetton Formula. They lasted until 2001 and snatched the manufacturers' championship in 1995 and the drivers' championship in 1994 and 1995 with Michael Schumacher.
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  61. It's celsius, not celcius. 😉
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  62. 4:15 - The button he pressed to lower the volume of the siren says "nuit", which means night. I'm assuming no further explanations are needed, Ian. 😉
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  63. I'm surprised you didn't ask what FAP means, Ian, since you're usually very curious about car-related terms or abbreviations that you're not familiar with. FAP is what you call in English DPF and yes, diesel particle filters are not exclusive to normal road cars, diesel burning, full on race prototypes also had them. Did you notice that the 908 didn't smoke one bit? 😉
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  64. 11:13 - I'm fortunate enough to have a pizzeria in my city that was founded by an italian chef who came to Portugal because his wife was portuguese, meaning that all his pizzas were made like back at home. It's no longer his but the new owner kept the same menu and one of the chefs that worked with him, so his legacy was kept intact. I'm not at all surprised by what the italians said in those comments because the pizzas they're talking about are exactly what's on the menu at that pizzeria. 🙂
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  65. I agree and it's not only having to have distincts tail light designs for distincts markets that makes it more expensive, it's also the different wiring and electronic commands needed for things to work. Simply swapping the tailights won't make the brake bulbs start flashing when commanded by the indicator stalk or the hazards' button.
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  66. I'm portuguese and we have loads of roundabouts all across the country. I live in a relatively small sized city but we have 22 roundabouts in the urban area alone, two of them exist for more than 60 years. Just imagine how many lives wouldn't have been taken, how much electricity would've been saved and how much pollution would've been avoided if the US had adopted roundabouts 50 or 60 years ago.
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  67. It's not 11, it's 9.
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  68. The fridge might be the only one of those things that are called "american" here in Portugal but I'm not sure.
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  69. Exactly and just because he's asking the questions in English but he doesn't specify that the answer must be in English, in principle you can answer in your own language. There's one question that he often asks in these ESN videos (name one country that starts with an "a" but doesn't end with an "a"), that only have two correct answers in English (Afghanistan and Azerbaijan) but have lots of correct answers in French: Alemagne, Albanie, Argentine, etc.
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  70. 17:00 - He's somewhat wrong here, you don't need to spend 40 or 50€ to eat traditionally made, good food in most of Europe. Quite the contrary, in many places you can have that kind of food for not a lot more than you'd pay for fast food in the US. Heck, even in the tourist hot spot that Lisbon has become, you can eat a traditional, local full meal for 10 or 15€!
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  71. 1- I have serious doubts that a US american would complain about anything tea-related. Side note about #2, Ian: not all volcanos are mountains.
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  72. Old school driver here. I was taught how to drive in a car with no power steering, a heavy clutch and bad brakes but I never failed parking at first attempt (it helped that I had the best instructor in the school). Every car that I drove in the last 36 years didn't have parking sensors. If they had, I would drive them crazy with the way I park. Now that I think about it, I'd probably rip them off or cut the wires so that I wouldn't have to hear them whine about how close I was to the other cars when I'm manoeuvering to park. 🙂
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  73. Props to you Ian, for not saying "Ver-sales" like a certain game show host.
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  74. 2:44 - Every other european country always rave about their bread being the best. Meanwhile the portuguese bread is a somewhat well-kept secret. 😉 9:17 - Wow Ian, who would've thought that you, as an american, would one day say "yeah, I wouldn't want to eat that whole thing" for something that's considered "bite-size" compared to the portions they serve in the US? 😄 12:20 - Portugal is the top seafood consumer per capita in Europe - and usually ranks in the top 4 worldwide - so if our seafood wasn't good we wouldn't be. Think about that. 15:15 - Search on Yelp or Trip Advisor for Portuguese restaurants in Chicago and you'll find many.
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  75. Here in northern Portugal, back in the old days, we had something similar called "espigueiro" but to store grain (corn, wheat, etc). They were made of stone or stone and wood, and were also put on top of mushroom-like pillars. 🙂
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  76. Yeah, Opel were always the underdogs among the "sea" of Mercedes and BMWs. And let's not forget the Ford Sierra. 🙂 I'm portuguese and I don't speak German but I also used to watch the races on RTL and the reviews of the DTM and the BTCC on Eurosport (via satellite).
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  77. 3:50 - It's even more amazing when you consider it has only half the cylinders of a V8! 😃 6:03 - It's amazing, isn't it, how they drift an AWD car as if it was RWD. 🤯
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  78. Here in Portugal those are called "terraços" and if you're wondering why it looks a lot like the word "terraces" in English, Ian, that's because it's the direct translation. A "varanda" in Portuguese is what you call "balcony" in English. 🙂
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  79.  @paulozavala3232  - It is true, in Europe the majority of vehicles on the road are still manual. What you said about taking the driving license in Sweden doesn't negate this fact and it's irrelevant to the point the OP was making.
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  80. I agree. The battles between Jean-Luc Pailler, Kenneth Hansen and Martin Schanche were always epic! I never missed a race on Eurosport. 😀
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  81. The "go big or go home" culture is not exclusive to the US, Ian. When satellite TV became very popular in the late 80's/early 90's here in Europe, a consumer electronics company I work with (specialised in TV reception equipment) sent some of their analogue sat receivers to Saudi Arabia, in order to get a supply contract for that market. This was in the mid to late 90's and at that time the receivers were already much smaller (half the standard size) than the first ones that came to the market. The saudis refused them because they were too small, so the company had to make full standard size enclosures, but with the same tiny board inside, for them to accept the deal. Their justification was that the saudi customers thought that if the receivers were small they'd probably be no good. The receiver looked ridiculous with all that empty space inside! 😆
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  82. Lisbon is one of the oldest cities in the world and that's the "original" one, even the rebuilt version is older than the US of A (after the 1755 earthquake, tsunami and fire). 😄
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  83. Non-american here. Here's what I think about the USA: why do you people eat as if you have free healthcare?
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  84. I would say that's kind of obvious but hey, it doesn't hurt to explain it anyway. 😄
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  85. The Metro 6R4 had a NA V6, which was basically a Rover V8 engine with 2 cylinders removed. Fun Fact about this engine, Ian: it ended up being used in the Jaguar XJ220, with a pair of turbos strapped to it, instead of the promised V12 that had to be ditched due to emissions' regulations. 😀
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  86. Many people only think about the driving part when they plan on driving on a different country, they keep forgetting about one crucial thing: the country's road rules. Granted, many of them are the same everywhere but it's those that aren't that could end up turning something pleasant into a nightmare.
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  87. That and there never were any carburated diesel engines.
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  88. I can't believe that you missed Cyprus and Kosovo! The flags literally have the picture of the country in them! 😂
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  89. For those who know Ligier from F1, it's weird seeing a microcar representing the brand. 😆
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  90. 1:32 - If I understood your question correctly, that was a Ford Escort, either a RS 2000 or a RS 1600. If you like rally this much I firmly believe you'll like hillclimbing even more! I strongly suggest you give it a shot. There are several channels dedicated to it but my suggestion goes to Hillclimb Monsters' channel. He has some of the best footage and he usually includes the cars' specs, which are very helpful when you don't quite know what you're looking at. 🙂
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  91. 5:21 - You're right, the Fiat Ducato traditionally comes with a 2.3L I4 turbo diesel engine, so I have no reason to doubt that it's also the case here.
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  92. 0:33 - You're wrong, Ian, but I'll forgive you since you hadn't watched the video yet. 16:05 - Compared to many US americans who don't even know that their country has a capital...
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  93. What part of "Portuguese here" didn't you understand? I wasn't talking about Europe in general, although what happens here in Portugal also happens in the majority of european countries. But it's good to know that if I ever go to Chéquia I'll make sure to avoid bars, cafés or restaurants that have waitresses and choose the ones that have waiters.
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  94. You see now why I keep suggesting videos from the HillClimb Monsters' channel, Ian? It's because of videos like these! They have all the ingredients to make you happy. 😄 The documentary you watched next was from the french TV channel France 3, which is sub-divided in one channel for each region of France. This one was from the Sud-Aquitaine region and takes place in the city of Pau.
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  95. 0:11 - They're called "matrículas" in Portuguese. 😉 Ours have been following a sequence since the beginning and they have 3 pairs of 2 digits. The early ones had two letters and four numbers, with the letters at the beginning (ex: AA-00-00), when all the possible combinations of that series were used up, the letters changed to the end (ex: 00-00-AA), then to the middle in the following series (ex: 00-AA-00) and when that series ended in February of 2020, a new series with four letters and two numbers started (ex: AA-00-AA) and that's the one being currently used. Also, our plates don't have expiration or renewal dates. They are issued with the first registration of the vehicle and last until the vehicle is scrapped. 6:50 - Vanity or personalised plates are not allowed in Portugal. The UK is the only european country I know that allows them. 13:05 - My thoughts: I agree with everything you said about digital plates. The ability to "talk" to other drivers is also a big no-no. As if today's drivers didn't already have enough distracting things inside the vehicle...
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  96. Sorry but having almost as many pickup trucks and SUVs as cars on the roads is US-exclusive, nowhere else in the world you'll find a similar ratio.
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  97. This is the modern day Ami, Ian, the original Ami was produced between 1961 and 1978 and was just a normal car. Since you like the unique look of older Citröens you should take a look at it to see how quirky looking it was, especially the early version. There was one on the bottom right picture at 15:15 but you missed it. Btw, "ami" means friend in English. 😉
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  98. 4:20 - Exactly, Ian! Knowing the track, the braking and acceleration points and the limits of the car makes an experienced driver go fast in any car but like others already said, this car is far from a regular M4 that you can buy from a dealership. 😄 Oh, and you don't need to tell us to go watch the original video, I'm pretty sure all of us here are part of the 8,2 millions who already have. 😉
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  99. 16:30 - Ian: yeah, we just use "or" Living Colour, the US american Rock band: hold our beer... 19:50 - I can't speak for other european countries but here in Portugal I have 500/100 (download/upload speeds) fiber optics internet, with 100 digital TV channels (the majority of which are Full HD), and landline phone with unlimited free calls for national landlines and unlimited free calls for EU numbers between 9PM and 9AM on weekends and I pay only 32€/month.
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  100. Loving cold drinks and loving warm drinks that have to be cooled with ice are two completely different things, Ian. I love cold drinks but those properly cooled in a fridge or a freezer. Ice cubes cool the liquid they're in by melting, so putting ice cubes or ice cold water in a drink is basically the same.
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  101. 8:40 - Speaking of crazy weather: last Thursday, 19th December, here where I live in central Portugal recorded the highest temperature of the day (18ºC) at 3am and the lowest (3ºC) at 11pm. At this time of year, the highs are usually reached between 2pm and 4pm and the lows are reached between 6am and 8am. Why did this happen? Because on Wednesday this area was affected by a low pressure system with SE winds that brought rain, heat and dust from North Africa. The temperature got up to 20ºC during the day and only went down 2 degrees up until 8am on Thursday, when the wind switched to NW causing the temperatures to never go above the one registered at 3am. Crazy times we're living in.
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  102. America "despises" the metric system so much that they even came up with a different word for one of its units (meter), just to be different from the British metre. 😄
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  103.  @dylanzrim3635  - No, the logic here is where the band was formed and not the nationality of its members. That said, "I Got You" shouldn't be on this list because Split Enz was formed in NZ.
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  104. 4:50 - It wasn't her laughter that says what's on her mind, it was the hand gesture that she made afterwards. Go watch it again, Ian. 😉
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  105. 5:47 - I've been "nagging" you about hillclimbing because I know you'd react that way to those crazy numbers coming out of 4-cylinder engines. Without being too much of a spoiler, I can tell you that some of the hillclimb 4-cylinder monsters produce more than that. ; )
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  106. Portuguese here. I see one of these pretty much everyday where I live, the 1.9D version. There's also a normal one in white and the other day I saw a red one but I think it's not from around here because I don't seen it very often. 🙂 About the colour and the "quirky" features: this model was called Fun for a reason. 😉 Out of curiosity, I just did a quick search for a used Fun here in Portugal and I found one for sale. It's a 1.9D (NA diesel engine from VW with 68hp) from 1999 and it has aprox. 150.000kms (<100.000 miles). The seller is asking €12.450 ($13,175) and it has an 18 month warranty included in the price.
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  107. You seemed so excited just by looking at all the "unknown" regular cars that a simple 5 minute video just showing traffic passing by in any european city would make you feel like a kid in a toy shop. 😄
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  108. 1:07 - One of those was the Pope's escort for his travels to the events inside Lisbon during this week's World Youth Day (Jornada Mundial da Juventude). 😉 2:04 - The one in the front looks like a BMW, the one in the back is clearly a Honda (look at the logo on the fuel tank). 7:25 - That's in Matosinhos (near Porto) and it's a sculpture to honour the fishermen of the city donated by a US american artist called Janet Echelman. She called it "She Changes" but some people think it represents either a fishing net or an anemone. 8:15 - That's a Fiat Tipo. 8:30 - No, it's a Passat. 11:03 - Jeeps have been very popular for several years, other than that we only have some Chevys like the Aveo, the Spark, the Cruze or the Captiva (but they are no longer sold in Portugal) and the occasional Mustang.
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  109. The video caption is cut, the car in the picture is the Vauxhall Astra GTE. The Vauxhall Astra G is exactly the same as the Opel Astra G.
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  110. At 6:21 it's definitely an Opel.
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  111.  @highks496  - At that time only the more wealthy people could afford them and the builders usually wouldn't spend that kind of money to equip more affordable flats with such a "fancy" system. Most people were used to the manual ones, anyway.
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  112. I guess he never had to call the tech support of the big tech companies because then he'd recognise Hindi. 😂
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  113. In that case, they had to be going at approx. 680km/h throughout the whole 193.1kms for those 17 mins to be true.
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  114. Funny that you mentioned Aldi because here in Portugal they're always standing up. Why? Because there are no permanent cashiers in the stores, once there are no customers to attend, the cashier goes into the store to do other shores. The opposite also happens when there's a lot of people to attend in the only open checkout, someone that's doing something else can come to open a 2nd or 3rd checkout. In Lidl, on the other hand, there's always a permanent checkout open with a permanent cashier and they're always sitting down. There's another supermarket here where the cashiers are always standing up: Intermarché. All the other ones have sitting down cashiers. 🙂
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  115. Here in Portugal the fatter the pigs, the better they are and we don't need to do anything to get them fat, we just let them grow like they're supposed to. But then again, we use everything the pig has to offer, nothing is wasted, and the quality of some of the products depend on a certain amount of good fat.
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  116.  @manub.3847  - And that's the normal daily fluid intake, not the intake that's dictated by some sort of "diet".
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  117. 7:40 - That's not a roundabout per se, it's a traffic circle. It's called that because of the traffic lights. Roundabouts are supposed to have free flow of traffic.
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  118.  @Scenario8  - As far as I remember, they were always white and yellow, except for the Cliff which was black.
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  119. Australiens, the aliens from Australia. 🤣
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  120. In Carmel's case, it was a "no brainard". :D
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  121. 14:30 - Correct. If your Aldi store has the logo with the blue back, then it's Aldi Süd. Here in Portugal we only have Aldi Nord (the one with the white backed logo), that's why we have access to all kinds of Trader Joe's products. 🙂
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  122. Number 2 is kind of a trick question because saying just Olympic Games leads many people to think only about the summer olympics. I wonder if there's a similar quiz for Sweden VS Switzerland. 🙂
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  123. I was about to comment the same thing!
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  124. 8:23 - Renault Mégane ; )
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  125.  @maggotpudding  - I know, I've seen it (and heard it) on Carwow's drag races. 🙂
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  126.  @bruizey7319  - He's probably aware of the Hillclimb Monsters' channel, since it's a portuguese channel. 😉
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  127. Here where I live in Portugal, the City Hall put a recycle system in place where who adheres to it receives 3 containers (one for each type of materials: paper, plastic and glass). On a designated day of the week, each person puts their respective container outside and an electric recycling truck comes in the early hours of the day and pick them up. Being electric, the trucks can circulate at those hours and not disturb anybody's sleep. 🙂 My only "gripe" with this video is the time of the day when they collect the garbage, they should do it at an hour where they wouldn't be in the way of whoever needs to go about their business. Over here, the garbage collection is between 6 and 7 AM.
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  128. Imagine going to an european country, Ian, only to find out that there are no "european doors" and they're not everywhere like the YT videos try to make you believe.
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  129.  @livb6945  - I understand why US americans call it soccer, since the term football is already used for American Football. What I don't understand is why other countries use the term soccer when they don't have any other sport called football.
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  130. How? How is it possible that you didn't know the Gorillaz were from the UK, Ian? Damon's accent is a HUGE giveaway! Damon Albarn was Blur's singer, are you going to tell me that you didn't know that Blur were English too? 😄
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  131. Whoever made the video put some really unknown brands in there (and two Australian ones!), some of them only made a few cars or nor even that, but forgot well known, traditional, historic european brands like Hillman, Triumph, Rover, DKW, NSU, Morris, Austin, TVR, Land Rover, MAN, Scania, Pagani, Lotus, McLaren and so much more that I can't remember now. Feel free to add them below.
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  132. 2:30 - What's funny is that it looks exactly like the ones you see outside of the big cities here in Portugal, even the "DRIVE" sign!😄
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  133.  @automation7295  - But in that case you have a different light that allows you to turn right, so you're not turning right on red because the red light doesn't apply to you.
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  134. I don't know the car but I could immediately tell it had a rotary engine. : )
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  135.  @MJ-uk6lu  - There's no such thing as "fully road legal" or "half road legal" in our laws. If a vehicle is allowed to circulate on public roadways, it's road legal, period.
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  136. 2:27 - C.O.A Valley? LOL, it's pronounced [koa]! Bloody robot voices... 3:38 - About the Iberian Lynx: it only exists in the Iberian Peninsula and became an endangered species due to a disease that started killing wild rabbits, their main food. We, the portuguese, managed to capture a few individuals before they went extinct and put them in a sanctuary here in Portugal, hoping they would start reproducing again while in captivity. It took some time but the gamble paid off and now every year new cubs are born and raised in the sanctuary until they reach the age when they're released back to their natural habitat, all of them carrying a monitoring collar so that the investigators can keep track of where they are and how they're adapting to the life in the wild. In 2016 there were only 403 in the whole Peninsula, last year there were 2.021, 353 more than in 2022. 🙂
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  137. I drive 2 hours East, they speak Castillian. I drive 4 hours North, they speak Galician. I can't drive anywhere else because I'll end up in the ocean. 😄
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  138. Group B, anything went: turbocharged, supercharged, turbocharged and supercharged, N/A, inline 4, inline 5, V6... And let's not forget the large variety of displacements, from the 1.4L turbo of the Renault 5 to the 3.0L V6 of the Metro 6R4 and everything in between. 🙂
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  139. He was so happy to find that the TV has a USB port but what he doesn't know is that those ports only supply 500mA max. Whatever he connected to that port took a very long time to charge. 😂
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  140. 2:39 - Dude, you just read 15 seconds before that the engine was mounted behind the rear axle! 😂
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  141. They're not 50cc, they have 500cc twin cylinder diesel tractor engines.
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  142. Yep, codfish is king at Christmas Eve dinner in most regions here in Portugal, were it not the national dish. The octopus tradition is more located in the north. We have 1001 ways of cooking codfish but for Christmas the tradition is boiled, with boiled potatoes, boiled kale and a boiled egg (some people also add boiled chickpeas). Of course, people are free to be creative and make it different but usually the dish doesn't stray away much from the tradition. The funny thing is, codfish doesn't even exist in our waters, it has to come from Norway or Iceland. We're probably the only country in the world where the national dish's main ingredient is not sourced locally. 😄
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  143.  @helloweener2007  - I just replied that they would fit perfectly in the video I was commenting on. 😄
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  144. 7:34 - The electric bus shown in the video is not battery powered, it's powered by those overhead cables. They're like trains without tracks. Here in Portugal we call them "tróleis" (the Portuguese spelling of the English word). The used to operate in three cities, Porto, Braga and Coimbra, but now Coimbra is the only one that has them. Apart from a short interregnum, they've been operating there since 1947. 🙂
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  145.  @graemejohnson9025  - Ian isn't even aware of the existence of the Chaparral 2J, an american-built car for an american racing series, so apparently individual "bubbles" are even smaller than the whole country's "bubble".
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  146. That's the video Ian should be reacting to if he wanted to find out what's the best plug in the world.
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  147.  @saya-mi  - Oh, I see! I didn't see a tag, so I assumed you were replying to me. My sincere apologies, then. I don't know why Mr. Pavel Kutáč's name doesn't appear right next to his avatar, it's messing up YT's replying system. 😠
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  148. Correct, that's what Linguee says "fahrschule" means. And it's in Switzerland, not in Austria like Ian said.
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  149.  @benistingray6097  - Not to mention the bike engine-powered "cars" and the weird combinations of bike and car engine parts. 😀
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  150. Yes, rally stages need to be normal public roads. These ones are forest roads that are used by the land owners to access their properties or by the firefighters in case of a forest fire.
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  151. The problem with you US citizens is that you call a pickup a "truck". No wonder you realise how small your pickups are when you see a real truck.
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  152. That one or the Visa GTI.
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  153.  @MJ-uk6lu  - Here in Portugal it fits in the same category as the quads and the micro cars, so it's fully road legal. It has to be registered and have a registration plate but the driver doesn't need to have a drivers' license and it's limited to 50km/h, which doesn't allow it to circulate on motorways.
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  154. 9:08 - You probably don't know but there's a model between the Golf and the Lupo: the Polo. 😉
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  155. It was George W. Bush who said that.
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  156. In Portugal we have: Lays Axe Mars Vodafone. It's the best in all areas: coverage, prices and customer service. Plus, it operates all over Europe, when you travel you don't need to switch to a local phone network like you have to do with the other 3 portuguese brands. Also, the Hyundai Kona is called Kauai here because Kona sounds like one of the Portuguese slang words for the female genitalia.
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  157. 0:18 - Dutch Europeans? As opposed to what? Dutch Americans, Dutch Asians, Dutch Africans? 🤣
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  158. 5:20 - They're like baskets because E. Leclerc is a supermarket chain. They're french and they're present in various countries, even outside of Europe. Here in Portugal alone there are 21 stores. 🙂
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  159. 3:05 - Skoda is a former czechoslovakian brand and since the early 90's it's part of the VW Group. Their cars share the platforms and engines with many of the VW Group cars. 7:35 - It's not really "the australian things", if he went to any european city he'd be equally in awe and probably even more because we have many models here that are not sold in Australia. 9:50 - Vauxhall, Holden and probably the Saturn Astra, are all rebadged Opels. 12:35 - To me, the only thing I think would be harder to get used to when driving in Australia or the UK or Japan or Mozambique, has to be shifting with the left hand. 😀
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  160. He already did, in April 2023.
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  161. Not that common? Here in Torres Novas there are many buildings, some of them built over 20 years ago, with 3 point door locks. The same in Entroncamento, Tomar or Alcanena. I've even seen them in smaller cities and towns that have less buildings than the ones I mentioned before.
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  162. You don't need to imagine it, you just saw it with your own eyes. That was filmed at the base of a bridge pillar and that valley is very real. Go watch the original video.
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  163. The W12 is a VW engine. You know, the "other" german car manufacturer that you left out of your list. 😉
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  164. The fact that he put Mini, which he knows is basically a BMW, above the mother company shows exactly that. There are much more things involved in personal preference than simply the brand.
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  165. TFL Classics did another video with a Beetle in the snow to test if the "myth" was true or not. And it wasn't in a normal road covered in snow, it was in a snow covered field with some hills! 😄
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  166. "So... first observation: they drive on the right." WTF, Ian??? I wasn't expecting that from you! 😮
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  167. To be more precise, it ended with the Astra H.
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  168.  @saya-mi  - Sorry but I've never heard of anyone putting lemon in a glass of tap water without the customer's consent just to charge for it here in Portugal!
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  169. Racing? LOL! That's a big overstatement, if I ever read one.
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  170. Ian, imagine what would happen to the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th cars and so on, if they went off in that same spot straight into a pile of crashed cars. These guys are not helping just to have fun, they're straight up saving the lifes of the drivers and navigators who come next.
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  171. As a coffee drinker portuguese person, I know that what I'm about to write might be very controversial but I don't care: coffee mixed with anything (and I mean ANYTHING!) is a crime against coffee. It's like putting ice cubes in a glass of 40 y.o Benromach.
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  172. Yup, here in Portugal it's the same, if a beer has more than 2-3cm of foam you have the right to refuse it and order another one. This video is another "awesome" video from that czech guy making it look like the things czechs do are the same all over Europe.
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  173. My younger brother works at the factory where many of these are made (Semog Racing-Alcanena, Portugal), he assembles the engine part and all the electronic control systems. They mainly use Suzuki GSXR-600R engines and the suspension configuration can be one of the many they offer or the client can fully customise it. They're a small company but they're one of the world's major players in Kartcross racing. 🙂
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  174.  @Toxxic13  - You missed that he wrote French with a capital F, meaning the language. 😉
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  175. 3 - In Portuguese it's very similar to ENG-ENG, it's "franja".
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  176. 10:29 - Americans and a large part of europeans too! 😂 13:30 - You can't turn right on red anywhere in Europe and there are no signs saying you can. Red means stop, period!
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  177.  @afiiik1  - Then maybe you shouldn't be driving a vehicle that has bumpers higher than kindergarten kids' height. 😉
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  178. You're right, Ian, looking at who the other 9 countries in the obesity ranking's top 10 are, the USA might as well be considered #1.
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  179. Ian, imagine you had the chance and the means to go buy one of those. Come on, wouldn't you choose the Skoda Fabia R5 WRC over any of the other cars? Subarus, Mitsubishis, Toyotas, Audis, Fords, everyone knows them in the US but the Fabia would turn a lot of heads, that's for sure! 😉
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  180. Mark was also very good at "hiding" his british accent. 🙂
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  181.  @SupremeLordEnki  - Oh yeah? Have you looked at pictures of the XJ900 and compared them with the one in the video? If not, go do that and then get back to me. Besides, I'm portuguese, I know what bikes our police force uses.
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  182.  @SUPRAMIKE18  - I followed the DTM all the way to the 2000's and I don't remember ever seen a red Calibra.
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  183. 19:58 - Do you know what that is, Ian? Allergy. You're becoming gluten-intolerant. Ask me how I know...
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  184. 16:56 - There were many FWD cars before the 80's, Ian, some of them very iconic. 😉
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  185.  @Derry_Aire  - That's why I said they're a bit harder to identify. When you have british bands with US singers, like Foreigner or Pretenders, it makes it more difficult to know where the band is from based on the accent.
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  186. It's Euro, not Euros. 😉
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  187. Yeah, I noticed that too. Also, did you notice that the left side shadow indicates that the light is coming from the right but somehow the shadow of the trailer hitch is on the right? I'd say it's bad photoshop but unfortunately people these days believe in everything they see online.
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  188. 1:10 - You should look more into Iveco stuff, you'd be even more amazed at the diversity of vehicles they offer, Ian. 😉
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  189.  @jeffredd9965  - Joaquim Santos' crash, which killed 3 spectators and injures almost 30, was caused by a SPECTATOR who invaded the stage, causing Joaquim to lose control of the car just to avoid hitting that SPECTATOR.
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  190. 2:30 - Hyundai Accent 6:50 - Btw, that Citröen's model is called Saxo.
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  191. This video seems to be averaging the global cost of living in a certain country, which in many cases doesn't apply to the whole country. Here in Portugal, 70% of the country is like where you live in Spain, you can live well with less than 1000€ a month and "regularly" with between 500 to 600€ a month. But if you factor in the 30% left, then as a whole Portugal doesn't appear to be a cheap place to live when in reality it is.
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  192.  @anouk6644  - We still have two sets of options before we eventually go to the AAA-00-00 format but like in your case, the current format and the two that'll eventually follow (AA-AA-00 and 00-AA-AA) will also have less option due to the combination of letters that will form words that are already listed as not possible. Nevertheless, even now I've seen some funny ones, like AJ-17-AX, AR-25-GH or BA-13-RN, which looks a lot like Bayern. I've even seen an Audi A1 with this plate: AU-56-DI. 😄
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  193. When I saw that bus my first thought was that if the distance between the front and the middle axles is longer than the width of the bridge, he's not going to make it. Turns out it wasn't.
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  194.  @MJ-uk6lu  - Do you have some sort of reading impairment or something?
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  195.  @MJ-uk6lu  - Lying about what? Do you by any chance know my country's rules better than I do?
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  196.  @IWrocker  - You wanna see where those french madmen put that engine in? Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4kN58K9rsc. 😉
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  197. 9:03 - There were two Opels in that picture: the black one on the left (it looks like an Astra J Caravan) and the silver one on the right (an Astra G 5-door hatchback). 😉 9:20 - The Saturn Vue is the same as the Opel Antara here in Europe.
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  198. I only have one question for you, Ian: did you feel it was harder or more difficult or more troublesome to drive a manual car through the same places where you normally drive an automatic and probably with the same amount of traffic?
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  199. 17:50 - The other north american guy was complaining about the lack of "commodities" in his A6 👎, this one is driving a freaking manual Audi! 👍
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  200. The first one was a 205 GTI with a 405 T16 engine swap.
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  201. Exactly. I was surprised to see the floppy disk here, since I've always known that it was created by a group of IBM engineers in 1971.
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  202. Yeah, title clickbaiting at its best.
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  203.  @IWrocker  - I didn't say they weren't everywhere, "similar ratio to cars" are the key words here.
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  204. Cantabria is one of Spain's autonomous communities, located in the north, Ian. 😉 The YT channel took the WRC name and added "antabria" to the C.
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  205. Didn't you even read what the text/watermark and the filters were for? 🤦‍♂
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  206. Americans don't use only football fields as a measurement unit, I've seen a news bulletin about a sink hole where the anchor said it was the size of 4 or 5 laundry machines. [facepalm]
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  207. *Braking
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  208.  @str1kerxx  - No worries! 👍
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  209. 0:30 - You might not know this, Ian, but it's a portuguese channel. 😉
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  210. Seeing all that cardboard being thrown in with the common waste just makes me want to slap the shit out of those who do it! 🤬 Here where I live in Portugal, the garbage collection company that does the work for the City Hall has a fleet of trucks that collect the garbage and clean the dumpsters afterwards. They do the rounds once a week, on the other days it's just the normal trucks. Also, garbage collection is always done between 6 AM and 8 AM, to avoid disturbing the early morning traffic. 🙂
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  211. Two very useful tips to remember for future reference, Ian: - Moldova's national language is Romanian, so you'll know immediately where it is. - Malta and Cyprus are islands, so they're very easy to find. Also, if you know the flags, the outline of Cyprus is on their flag, so you can find it by its shape.
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  212.  @primoziskra6394  - In Portugal they're called Coexistence Zones. They're basically pedestrian zones where motor vehicles are allowed to circulate but with lots of restrictions for them. The sign is the same in all of the EU. 🙂
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  213. Better than type A? Definitely. The best in the world? Not by a long shot.
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  214. All around the world except Africa. There used to be a GP in South Africa, at the Kyalami circuit, last time held there in 1993.
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  215.  @stevegraham3817  - My objective wasn't to make an extensive list of Group B engines, just the ones shown in the video and a few other that might pop up in other videos Ian watches in the future.
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  216.  @oswaldpeter  - What the accent means doesn't really matter because I was talking about how it's written and not about how it's pronounced.
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  217. And he's only talking about the F2 category, imagine the F1 category that has 1000cc engines! But even so, these modern 4-stroke outfits don't hold a candle in terms of dangerousness to the 500cc 2-stroke era, when the engines were directly derived from the MotoGP bikes: almost the same power as today's litre engines but much more nimble and light. Those were the real widowmakers! Fun Facts about the F1 and F2 categories: on the F2's the engine is in front of the driver (or below, depending on how you look at it) but on the F1's the engine must be behind the driver, making the outfits slightly longer than the F2's. You know Motocross, right? Now imagine Sidecar Cross! Yeah, it exists, so hold your 'What's The Craziest Sport' ranking until you watch some Sidecar Cross races. 😉
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  218. The one in the video is a tow truck from the Municipal Police, not the normal tow trucks used for vehicle recovery which are also flat bed trucks here in Portugal.
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  219. He definitely needs some hillclimbing in his life. I'd suggest anything from the Hillclimb Monsters' YT channel, he has some of the best footage and he usually includes the cars' stats, which will be helpful for Ian to "decipher" many cars that he never saw in his life. Not to mention the onboard videos. 🙂
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  220. Wehicle...😂
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  221. Apart from the extra letters, the rest is probably easy for you because it's pronounced more or less like you'd pronounce it in Spanish. You'll notice the similarity between languages in the pronunciation of many letters as you progress into other languages.🙂
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  222.  @edugj23  - Exactly.
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  223. In Portugal it's called IPO (Inspecção Periódica Obrigatória) or Periodical Mandatory Inspection in English. They should've come up with a different acronym because IPO is also the acronym of the Portuguese Institute of Oncology (Instituto Português de Oncologia).
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  224. *Brakes The S1 brakes were designed for rallying, where braking is used mostly to shed speed and not for coming to a full stop from a high speed. If you put the RS3 brakes on a rally car they won't last one stage.
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  225. I was going to say that too. It's even in the title of the video he's reacting to, how could he miss it? 😄
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  226. I don't know who gave that czech guy power of attorney to speak on behalf of all of Europe. I guess everything goes just to get views, even ignorance.
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  227. The majority of the scenes with spectators in the middle of the stage were from Rally Portugal. You can see why the portuguese spectators' behaviour was what ultimately lead to the end of Group B. Btw, the 3 people killed in the Joaquim Santos accident were a mother of 36, her 9 year old son and a 18 year old kid.
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  228. 9:32 - Instead of being surprised, you should be thankful, Ian. You just found out that there are at least 5 more ignorant people. 😄 10:47 - To be fair, for many of us outside of the US she's indeed american because for us America is a single continent and Jamaica is in it. 😉
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  229. @alexpervanoglu7420 - Maybe for you but not for the majority of the world. The 7 continents' model is not the only model nor is it universal.
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  230.  @dirkspatz3692  - Technically, you don't call mountain to something that's 90% under the water.
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  231. 1- That must be a German thing, it's not the same everywhere in Europe. Here in Portugal all supermarkets (what you call grocery stores) are open everyday until 9pm (10pm during Summer), except on some national holidays when they either close earlier or are closed the whole day. The normal stores, including the large majority of what we call grocery stores, are closed between 1pm on Saturday and 8.30 or 9pm on Monday, except on some parts of the bigger cities and in the shopping centres. 2- Again, not something that applies to all of Europe. Also, that sign on the right at 4:52 doesn't mean only No Speed Limit, it means the end of ALL restrictions or prohibitions up to that sign, whatever they may be. 3- I've never paid to use a public toilet in my life either, Ian! The chances of that happening when you go to any european country are so slim that you shouldn't even worry about that. These guys make it sound like ALL public toilets are paid. 5- Keep Right (Keep Left in the UK) it's not an advice, it's the law in Europe.
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  232. Grow your own vegetables, fruit and raise chickens. At least you'll know that you're eating healthy vegetables and fruits and that your white meat and eggs don't come from a chlorine bath.
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  233. Yeah, the last real Vauxhall cars ended production in 1979, from there on they were just rebadged or slightly modified versions of Opel models.
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  234. 6:50 - Only the "old" Toyotas, Nissans, Fords, Bedfords, Mitsubishis and the VW "bus", amongst others, were RWD. It's been over 25 years that most vans switched to FWD, except for Renault and Citröen vans, which were always FWD. 7:10 - Case in point, although that's not a "euro van", it's a Toyota Hiace.
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  235. The french, people known for being very proud of everything french, chose a japanese car over a french car for their municipal police force? 🤔
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  236. And let's not forget the 70's yellow Celica keeping up with the Holden and staying ahead of the two BMWs on the straights, too! 😃
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  237. 5:33 - A simple glance at the rev counter is enough to know what engine the car has, Ian. 😉 6:30 - In those days most of these cars had petrol engines. This one has a 1000cc 4-cylinder. Fun Fact: it was Datsun's first FWD car. 🙂
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  238. If you want to hear some more NA goodness, search for "Best of NA Monsters", the Hillclimb Monsters' YT channel makes a compilation video every year. Oh and they also make compilations with the best turbo monsters of each year. 😉
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  239. And it's not even Winter!
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  240. Well, my story with Opel cars goes back to 2000, when I bought a 1992 Astra F Caravan 1.4i (8v, SOHC, 82hp). In 2005 I got into an accident (not my fault) and the repair was doable, but the insurance company deemed it a total loss due to its age. Since it was my work car, I searched for another used one because I knew that everything I carried in the old one would fit right into the "new" one, so I found and bought the 1997 model of the same Astra F Caravan (1.4 16v, DOHC, 90hp) with only 72,000kms (~44,739mi). I sold it in 2018 with over 270,000kms (~169,013mi) and bought a 2001 Astra G Caravan 2.0 DTI (2.0 16v turbo diesel, 101hp) with only 155,000kms (~96,312mi), which I'm still driving today. 🙂
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  241. The other day I was watching some news about an incident with injured people in Mexico and I thought of you, Ian. Why? Because there were a few Renault Traffic and Fiat Ducato ambulances. You're always saying that you don't see those brands in the US, well, just go to Mexico. 😄
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  242. 16:07 - The silver one is an Opel Corsa and the one in front is a Ford Ka. You're welcome. 😉
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  243. The second clip is from Switzerland, you can see the .ch domain written on the side of the truck.
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  244.  @msviper  - You must be too young to remember the "Arrastadeira" (the 15-Six). That was the first one they offered money to whoever could flip it over.
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  245.  @stephenberry8658  - The 15-Six was the first car they offered money to whoever could flip it over.
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  246. It looks like they were talking about the Nissan but the camera guy was filming the Opel next to it.
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  247. 12:27 - How fast are we talking here, Ian? I have fibre service from Vodafone and I pay only 32€/month for 500/200 Mbps internet, TV (98 channels) and landline phone (free, unlimited domestic calls and free, unlimited calls to many EU countries between 9 PM and 9 AM on week days and all day during weekends).
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  248. It's a shame that you choose hillclimb videos from these channels that just put a random assortment of cars without any info, Ian. I know you're a petrolhead and I know you like to learn about the specs of these machines, especially the ones you don't recognise or you don't know what they are, and for that there's only one channel to go: HillClimb Monsters. His videos are not long and he usually creates a list of the top 10 or 15 from each event with all the info about the cars, including their best time, and he doesn't limit himself to the European Hillclimb Championship, he also does videos of events in South Africa, Greece and other countries. I know you would have a blast watching his videos, especially when you learn about the crazy specs of some of those cars. And last but not least: their sound! 😀
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  249. 8:05 - You're right, Ian, this is the plain Octavia 4x4 Estate road version, not the lifted-up, offroad ready Scout model like the previous ones!
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  250.  @RazudMezeghis  - Yes it did, there's one still being driven around here where I live.
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  251. Yeah, every time something has "the BEST" in the title, either it's a video, a web page or an article, usually it's what you wrote as the correct name.
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  252. AC/DC, the band, might've been formed in Australia but Angus, Malcolm and Bon were born in Scotland, and Cliff Williams and Brian Johnson were born in England. My problem with these lists is the nationality appropriation, I don't consider anyone born in one country that then emigrated to [enter country name] as [enter nationality] and this list is full of them. Applying for another nationality doesn't change where the person is from, quite the contrary, it strenghtens the fact that a person is a foreign in a foreign country. A persons nationality is where they were born and nothing can change that.
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  253.  @engenhokas69  - And a big shout out to Luis and Helder, for representing us abroad. 👍
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  254. 11:37 - He backed off because there was a problem with the gears or the gear shifter, not because he didn't want to risk something. Didn't you see him shaking his head when he realised something was wrong? Speaking of best sounding cars' videos, I can't recommend enough that you check out some of the Hillclimb Monsters' compilations. Anything you can think of, they have: N/A, turbo, engine swaps, crazy engine-car combinations, crazy engine types combinations and also compilations by brand. I guarantee you'll be smiling from hear to hear like a kid in a candy store.
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  255. I didn't need to look at the sign, the eucalyptus trees were enough to tell me where it was. 😉
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  256. It's easier to say post-2009 Yamaha R1. 😉
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  257. 15:25 - More interesting than just looking at who's in what place are the percentages compared to the same semester of last year: the Golf was up 43%, the Octavia and the Fiat Panda were up 25%, the C3 was up 50%(!), just to give some examples of the more relevant rises. On the other hand we have the Model Y down 26%... 18:30 - The poster doesn't say which type of engine they were referring to (gasoline or diesel), so taking into account that diesel engines usually have larger oil change intervals than their gasoline counterparts, you should take that post with a grain of salt, Ian.
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  258.  @zeusminoan  - That's pretty much standard all over Europe but like I stated in my comment, that's the light that controls traffic turning right, not the red one for those who want to go straight and/or left.
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  259. 14:07 - Yes. Simply yes.
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  260. 12:00 - This situation had nothing to do with right-of-way, what happened was that she cut through the parking spaces instead of using the proper exits. 12:45 - That's a 2nd gen Renault Mégane.
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  261. If you like ice racing you should definitely react to some Andros Trophy from the 90's! 🙂
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  262. 9:18 - Fun Fact: Angry Anderson was the lead singer of the australian Blues Rock band Rose Tattoo, which sounded nothing like his solo career. He's also an actor and participated in the 1985 Mad Max movie "Beyond the Thunder Dome". 🙂
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  263. 9:25 - That's the latest portuguese number plate, Ian, the two letters, two numbers, two letters without separating dots (AA 00 AA series) only started in February 2020. I call them "the bland series" because the plates are just plain ugly. The previous series had the numbers and the letters separated by black dots, and since 1998 a yellow strip on the right with the month and the year of the vehicle's first registration. Those plates looked nice but for the new series the EU forced us to remove that second strip because they argued that the LE authorities in other countries could confuse that date with the expiration date that exists in other EU countries' plates and could start pulling over portuguese vehicles for supposedly having an "expired" plate. I mean, the LE authorities in other european countries have to know what all the symbols on the various plates mean, so they could've easily learned what our date meant but since we were the only country in Europe with that and we're small, the EU "powers" forced us to remove it. The last straw was the removal of the dots for the new series but that idea came out of the "bright" minds of our "beloved" DMV. 😠 The next time you react to some portuguese vehicle-related video you'll probably see at least 3 different number plates, if not all 4 because there are still many pre-1992 cars on the roads.
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  264.  @MrJointpt  - I know, I'm portuguese. 😉
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  265.  @stanislavczebinski994  - Obviously, there were no Felicias before VW's acquisition.
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  266. Don't be too hard on yourself for not knowing who the presidents of the european countries are, Ian, because most of them are not that important. Of course, there's Macron (France), Zelensky (Ukraine), Erdoğan (Türkye), Putin (Russia) or Lukashenko (Belarus), who run their countries, but regarding the majority of the european countries, the person you should know is the Prime-Minister. By the way, our PM (Portugal) might not be very "news-friendly" in the US because his last name is Montenegro.
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  267.  @automation7295  - Maybe you should try to read again and understand what I wrote, I never said the car in the video was an A-Class. Here in Portugal the B-Class is classified as a compact MPV, not a hatchback. I don't recall existing more than one type of B-Class.
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  268. @OnlyGoodMusic_ - Did I say they were or that everyone considers them to be from the US? Blimey, what's wrong with people's reading skills these days? 🤨
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  269. The large majority of the ambulances you saw in the video about portuguese emergency vehicles are manual, even the newer ones. 🙂
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  270.  @yadiracamacho499  - And when the balcony has no railings, what do you call it? The "terraço" in Portuguese refers to the paved space on the garden or backyard or to the flat areas on top of buildings, garages or annexes: it's called simply "terraço" when it's open and it's called "terraço fechado" when it's closed or covered. To the enclosed porches we call "marquises".
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  271.  @yadiracamacho499  - Ah, ok. Then our "varanda" is your "balcón". 🙂
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  272.  @brunogerard2917  - I know that and you know that but Ian might think that Saxo is just one of the car's sponsors.
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  273.  @hazeman4755  - Lol, you're even more screwed than us! Imagine a police officer trying to give you a fine because you were nearby enough to use the crossing! 😄 At least 50m can be measured if the police really want to fine a pedestrian, which is something so rare that the definition of rare should be "pedestrians fined for jaywalking in Portugal". 😅
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  274.  @wWvwvV - It has nothing to do with US thinking, roadways were designed for motor vehicles. Except in very specific situations where they rule over any type of vehicle, pedestrians are in no way shape or form road users, that's why designated pedestrian crossings exist. Like others have already stated, if pedestrians get hit by a vehicle because they didn't take all the precautions to cross a roadway safely, anything that happens is their responsibility. That doesn't mean that drivers are going to intentionally run over pedestrians crossing outside of the designated places, this should be obvious. Just like in Germany, drivers tend to "yield" if a pedestrian is already in the middle of the street.
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  275. *woman
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  276. Yeah, Ian was thrown off by what was written in the mud flaps and didn't even notice that there was no Mercedes logo in the front grill.
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  277.  @anouk6644  - We had the XD combination in 1991 (letters at the beginning), in 2004 (letters at the end) and in 2019 (letters in the middle). I call those "the happy number plates". 😄
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  278. Not related, rallycross and autocross are different sports: autocross is exclusively on dirt, rallycross is always dirt and asphalt. Also, the autocross rules are a lot more "relaxed" than the rallycross rules.
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  279.  @primalengland - No worries, I understand the confusion. Autocross is relatively unknown compared to rallycross.
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  280. 4:27 - Or diesel. Motor vehicles don't run only on gasoline. 😉
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  281. 1:30 - FYI, Ian, Bugatti is bringing back the V16 to replace the W16 on their next hypercar.
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  282. Most small sized cities and many towns here in Portugal have some sort of bollards everywhere inside the urban perimeter, regardless of the traffic volume. In some cases, the local authorities over exaggerate their installation, to the point that they become a nuissance even for the pedestrians.
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  283.  @Yvolve  - In some cases it seems the only logic involved in the placement of the bollards was for them to be perceived by the public as being pedestrian-friendly. You know, the type of things that gives them votes.
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  284. I don't know if you noticed but all the North American examples he showed are from Canada.
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  285. If I was a Police officer and that roundabout was in Portugal, sooo many drivers would've been fined between 60€ and 300€ and they'd lose 4 DL points each.
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  286. I'm surprised you didn't say anything about the car being LHD...
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  287. *Too close, not "to close". 😉
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  288. FYI, curcuma is just a different name for turmeric or saffron.
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  289.  @BertoLaDK  - I couldn't have said it better myself! 👍
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  290. Points #1, #2, #3, #6 and #7 are things that all the EU countries and also some non-EU countries do, not just Germany.
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  291. And it probably wasn't polish either, the internet address at the end is from Ukraine.
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  292. 11:47 - 12,000rpm? They use 600cc bike engines, so they probably rev over 14,000 or more.
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  293. Some historical trivia for you, Ian: the acronym SFOR written on the side of the Leopard at 2:00 stands for Stabilisation Force. SFOR was a NATO-led multinational peacekeeping force, deployed to Bosnia and Herzegovina after the Bosnian War (1992-1995), caused by the fragmentation of Jugoslavia. 🙂
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  294. 2:37 - It's not a coupé, Ian, it's a 2-door sedan. You can immediately tell by the open boot. 😉 3:45 - I'm surprised by his surprise to see an Xsara estate, I thought they were as popular in other european countries as they were here in Portugal. 4:25 - The Paseo was sold here too, so it wasn't a Japan or US-only vehicle. 5:45 - Another very popular pickup here, some of them are still being driven around here where I live. 6:40 - T-Spark means twin spark, i.e. two spark plugs per cylinder. 9:45 - VW hatches, from the smallest to the "biggest": Up, Lupo, Polo and Golf. Now you have no excuse for not knowing one if you see it. 🙂 9:55 - Oops, that's not a Peugeot, Ian! It's a Vauxhall Astra GTE, a rebranded Opel Kadett GSI. But I understand why you mistook the Vauxhall logo for the Peugeot one. 11:40 - Not really. The estate was just a modified version of the coupé, so the tail lights are not an after-thought, they're in the coupé's original place. 24:05 - He was wrong about those Renaults, they're not 19s, they're 1st gen Meganes.
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  295. Big? Dangerous? If you want to see what big and dangerous waves are (close to or over 100ft), check Nazaré waves.
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  296. 13:14 - Think about that situation for a second, Ian: if the Renault Mégane Scenic (that's the silver car) moved, it was because there was space behind for it to move, which means it probably was not parked as it should.
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  297.  @paulozavala3232  - Again , you're veering off-topic: I never wrote nor implied that we in Europe are going to stick to manual vehicles forever. I was just saying that, contrary to what you stated, it's true that over here currently most cars are manual. I think you need to brush up on your reading/understanding skills.
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  298. Sans permis cars are not exclusively french, they're everywhere here in Portugal, especially because there are many people who don't have a drivers license but have a scooter/moped license that allows them to drive those "things". We call them "elder killers" because the majority of drivers are old people who never learned how to drive, don't take care of their vehicles and cause a lot of accidents.
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  299. 1:10 - Fun Fact #1: Vespa means "wasp" in Italian and Portuguese. 4:02 - Fun Fact #2: Did you notice the similarity between the Italian word "modulo" and the English "module"? It's pronounced the same way, only with an "o" instead of an "e" at the end. 17:33 - That's a Cupra. Cupra is the high-performance motorsport subsidiary of SEAT, formerly known as SEAT Sport. It's like Mercedes' AMG or BMW's M-Sport.
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  300.  @ry4n3w63  - You must be replying to someone else, I didn't say anything about the air con.
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  301. 2:00 - Correct, 5 cylinder. Funny, it's "technically" half of a V10 but it sounds almost like one. : ) 2:35 - Correct again, it's a Toyota Corolla WRC. 3:12 - Opel Corsa GSI. 4:54 - 2.4L N/A V6, also used in several Ferrari models. Designed by Bertone. 7:14 - Correct, Opel Ascona 400 Group B. You don't remember but you saw it on Michèle Mouton's video, it was Walter Rohrl's car. 7:24 - Renault Clio (RS, I think). You should give hillclimbing a try. If you like the exhaust sounds, the looks, the power and the craziness, one video will be enough to get you addicted. Again, I recommend anything from the HillclimbMonsters YT channels because they include the cars' specs and have loads of onboard videos dedicated to individual cars. You'll also get to know some of the most important races in Europe but not only, recently they started to include some races from South Africa with even crazier cars! : )
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  302.  @sirsancti5504  - That was just a prototype, of which they made only a few units for testing purposes. It never went into production. All the Amis had air-cooled flat engines, a flat-2 in the early models and a flat-4 in the Super model. So yes, it was just a normal car.
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  303. @IWrocker - More comments don't hurt the video stats, do they? 😉
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  304. 12:30 - Despite what you're seeing in the video is a computer simulation, you better believe they can do those speed in real life. They reach 340+ km/h easily in the circuits with the longer straights, so in an even longer straight they'd probably top up around 360/370 km/h. I think you'd have a kick watching Carwow's drag races. They race on a normal, unprepared runway (or airstrip, whichever you're more familiar with), they're wacky as hell, usually involving normal cars, SUVs, estates, bikes and supercars but also all sorts of trucks, pickups and ATVs and even race vehicles, including rally cars, rallycross cars, superbikes and even an F1 car, driven by David Coulthard. They usually do a standard 1/4 mile drag race, two 1/2 mile rolling races, one in comfort mode and one in race/sport mode and a brake test. If you like car entertainment, that's the place to go. 😀
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  305.  @akyhne  - I guess all the Rovers must've ended up here in Portugal because they were sold by the thousands ever since the inception of the brand. We even had the Rover 214/216 a.k.a the rebadged Honda Concerto.
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  306. 1:58- The smoke should be a dead giveaway of what type of engine it has, Ian. 😉 4:12 - I knew you'd eventually figure it out. 😄 6:55 - The ride height is adjustable on these, he wouldn't have gotten up that slope if it wasn't on max ride height.
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  307. 0:42 - Yes, that's a thumbnail for clicks, if I ever saw one. That first picture is a CG image, there has never been a 10-wheeled F1 car ever.
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  308. I'm sure "editor Ian" was facepalming hard when reviewed this part. 🤣
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  309. Remember, Ian, the BMWs were RWD, the Audis were Quattro and the rest of the field was FWD. Talk about diversity! 😀
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  310. They call it LPG but I don't think anyone knows what it stands for. 😄
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  311.  @Seb-Storm  - Ian is a car guy, he knows the large majority of brands, even Renault, Peugeot and Citröen, but obviously there are some models/brands he doesn't recognise. : )
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  312. 0:17 - Eucalyptus trees, unique? They're common as muck! 😆 In a fictional scenario, if one day you go to bed in the US and the next day you wake up in the middle of central or northern Portugal, you'll be thinking that you must be somewhere in Australia! 😂
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  313. And Ian only got one! 😆
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  314. I'm one of those europeans who has to have a personal vehicle because my work involves travelling to locations where I wouldn't be able to go by PT. Plus, I have to carry all the equipment that I need for my work. However, if I need to go to a place that would take me less than 10 min by car and it doesn't involve bringing back large or heavy items, I'll walk. I do even more: my mechanics' shop is in the outskirts of my city and less than 10 min away by car but it's a 35 min walk away, nevertheless I always walk back when I leave my car there and I always walk there to get it back when it's ready. I take a "shortcut" through pleasant countryside roads with virtually no traffic and it doesn't even feel far. The only "problem" (which is only a problem when it's hot out) is that half the distance from here to there is uphill but I don't mind, it's a good workout. 🙂 The only times I use PT (train) is when I need to go to Lisbon or Porto or Coimbra or Aveiro because it's cheaper and less stressful than driving to those places.
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  315. Donald Duck nominated an anti-vaxxer and a quack to run your already miserable healthcare system. What could possibly go wrong?
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  316.  @HeavenlyWarrior  - You posted without reading the comments, didn't you?
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  317. It's an Opel Vivaro, a.k.a Renault Traffic, a.k.a Fiat Talento, a.k.a Nissan Primastar and many others.
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  318. I don't know how fast I've ever travelled on land because the speedometer on my last bike ('06 Yamaha R1) stopped counting at 299km/h (~186mph). That speed was achieved at around 12,000rpm in 6th gear but the bike kept pushing all the way to the 14,000rpm redline. 🙂
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  319.  @eatsmylifeYT  - And did you ever stop to think that maybe I was being sarcastic?
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  320. I'm surprised that an environment-friendly country like Sweden is alright with this americanisation.
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  321. I'm suprised the Ford Anglia didn't make it to that list. It was of those cars that you liked until you see it from the back. Here in Portugal it got the nickname "ora porra!", which is an expression people use when great expectations are frustrated. 😄
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  322.  @Roberternst72  - "Nothing added" in the sense of "nothing except the ingredients used to make chocolate". 🙄
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  323. Cars others didn't mention: 5:16 - Opel Kadett 9:40 - Renault 5 Turbo (the same that was used in Group B) 11:33 - Opel Kadett 17:30 - Toyota Avensis SW
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  324. Sounds like a T5, too. 🤘🤘
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  325. It shows the speed in the original video, Ian just cropped the video window too much and hid it.
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  326. 3:30 - An aspiring rally driver goes to an interview to see if he gets accepted into a WRC team. Interviewer: "So, can you swim?" Aspiring rally driver: "Why do I need to know how to swim to be a WRC driver?" 🤣
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  327. They kind of "butchered" the name, it's an Iveco Acco. 4:34 - Definitely a diesel and definitely not a V8. Fun Fact, Ian: we also have RHD vehicles here in Portugal but with one steering wheel only. It's the street sweepers and since they work very close to the pavements/sidewalks, the driver needs to be on the right side of the cabin. I call them "the vacuum cleaners" because they suck leaves, garbage, dirt, etc from the streets to keep them clean and to avoid gutter clogging. 🙂
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  328. Ok, all the teams, manufacturers, riders and races are from/in Europe but this is a world championship organised by the FIM, Ian. It was first held in 1980. One of the GPs (this year it was GP2) takes place here in Portugal, in a small village called Alqueidão that belongs to one of the parishes of my county, just 9 Kms (~5.6 mi) away from where I live. Seeing it live is something no words can describe. 🙂
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  329. The CLA is just an expensive Renault. 🙃
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  330. Interesting? Beautiful? The first thing that comes to mind is "they don't belong here". Don't speak for everyone in Europe.
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  331. Things that are completely illogical are usually hard to understand, and I'll risk saying that I'm speaking for every non-usainian.
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  332. *degrees 😉
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  333. ARO was a different manufacturer. It only made 4x4 vehicles but used Dacia parts, so the Dacia company already existed at the time. We had one model made here in Portugal between 1975 and 1995, named Portaro and based on the ARO 240 4x4. 🙂
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  334. Don't judge how new sport cars sound by these soundchecks, the large majority have soft limiters that don't allow you to rev the engine while stationary.
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  335. Yeah, definitely the british version of what we call Baja here in Portugal (and Spain, where the name comes from), although a bit less "professional", I'd say. The specs of the vehicles that compete in our cross country championship are more similar to what you find in the Dakar.
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  336. It's the base of a bridge pillar and that wall is the side of the pillar. Go watch the original video.
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  337. Portugal is the only country in the world where the Hyundai Kona has a different name, here it's called Kauai. They had to change it because Kona sounds like the portuguese slang word "cona", which is a derrogatory term for vagina. Talk about even more unfortunate naming! 😆
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  338. There's a good way for you to know where the "difficult" cities are located in, Ian: click randomly until you fail and the game will show you where they are. Simple as that! 😄
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  339. I'm with you, Ian, no one here in Europe would look at an Opel Rekord or at an Opel Kadett A and think "muscle car". 😄
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  340. If you want to learn more about the DS and from a mechanic's perspective, I suggest the Car Wizard YT channel. He recently bought one from Tyler Hoovie (Hoovie's Garage) and he had a blast learning about the "quirks" of the car and putting it on video. Here are the links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1N5sHcl7Jg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCKsL0MPKaQ By the way, the title of the 2nd video is not clickbait. 😉
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  341. Not all the almonds from a single tree are used to make one litre of almond "milk", so those numbers might be quite off.
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  342. The camera mic, the video editing, processing, rendering (especially with the technology avalable when this was recorded) and YT's compression losses, all filter the real sound considerably and the final result is mostly mid and high frequencies. The reality is much louder across the whole frequency spectrum. Been there, done that in the 90's at Estoril (Portuguese GP) and in the V10 era! I was on the stand at the end of the main straight but I heard that the organisation was handing over ear plugs to the people with grand stand tickets. 🙂 PS: I don't know if you noticed but the guy was also using ear plugs.
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  343. 11:05 - Goa used to be a portuguese colony up until 1961 and we left a big cultural inprint there, Ian. Now imagine what that "picky holidaymaker" would say if they had served him a typical portuguese dish like Bacalhau (Cod fish). 🤣
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  344. I'm not german but I believe RUF is pronounced like 'roof' and not like 'rough'. 🙂 9:40 - Since it's a dogleg gearbox, it's not easy for people who are used to normal manual gearboxes to know what gear he was in but it goes like this: the gear positionings are inverted, so in the RUF's 5-speed gearbox the 3 back gears on the shifter are 1st, 3rd and 5th and the 2 front gears are 2nd and 4th. Now go watch the video again and count the gears he used the most. 😉
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  345.  @hape3862  - Nope. The original spelling is "mètre" (French) and metre is used in all of the Commonwealth. In the English-speaking countries only the americans say meter.
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  346. @alexpervanoglu7420 - Most widely taught and accepted? Only the English-speaking countries consider that model, the rest of the world uses the 6 continents' model, except for China and India that use both. Nothing that a quick internet search wouldn't clear. I was taught the 6 continents' model, so there's absolutely no reason for me to use a different one but unlike you, I accept that there are other models and I don't go about correcting people who were taught differently.
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  347. I was shocked by the fact that you must be the only person in the world who doesn't know that the Scorpions are german, Ian. 😆 (I'm just kidding, of course 😉)
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  348.  @reinhard8053  - The normal opening hours for the large majority of shops here is 9:00-13:00, 15:00-19:00 and for restaurants it's 12:00-15:00, 19:00-22:00.
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  349. 7:57 - Toyota Celica.
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  350. @ - It mentioned Dacia twice but with different flags (romanian first and then french), which kind of makes sense. The only thing that was wrong was that they should've shown an old Dacia with the romanian flag instead of the modern one they showed with both flags.
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  351. 11:23 - Wow, you actually said "zed" instead of "z"! 👏👏 12:08 - It's NA. 14:50 - It's a Fiat Panda, so no problem there. 😉
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  352.  @MauiWauiPineappleExpress  - I agree, it was the only way to at least keep the brand "alive".
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  353. 0:25 - And why wouldn't they do it? If the purpose of the video is to expose the ignorance of people why would it include the clips of those who answered correctly? 6:38 - Which two continents does it connect? Because as far as I know, a canal connects two bodies of water, not two landmasses.
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  354.  @totalermist  - What that Wiki article says is that drivers/cyclists can turn right if there's another light/sign that allows them to (they also exist here) but in in those cases that's not turning right on red because the red light doesn't apply to whomever is turning. So yes, it's true that if there's only a red light, you can't turn right.
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  355. They're still diesel and now there are some electric models, to my knowledge there aren't (and never were here in Portugal) microcars with gasoline engines.
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  356. One thing I don't think I've seen anyone mentioning here in the comments of your snooker reaction videos is that when doing those awkward shots, either with the extension or directly, the player must have at least one foot on the ground, which makes some of the shots even more difficult to do. 🙂
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  357. I bet the majority of the vehicles in the video are TDI. That also helps a lot.
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  358. Who needs "orange" drinks like Fanta when nowadays pretty much every major supermarket store has a machine that'll squeeze oranges to make fresh orange juice on the go? Just select the bottle size you want, press the ON button and pay at the exit. Greetings from Portugal.
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  359. It literally has the (P) sign in it! 😄
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  360. 3:31 - Judging by the placement of the exhaust, it's a turbo diesel. 21:22 - Portugal here. I just did a quick search on the 2nd-hand market and I only found 3 pre-1997 units for sale: 1- A 1990 240 GL Estate (2.0L, petrol, 117hp, manual) with 340.000kms (~211.000mi) for €6.990. 2- A 1991 960 Turbo 16V sedan (2.0L, petrol, 190hp, manual) with 339.000kms (~210.000mi) for €2.950. 3- A 1995 850 T5 R Estate (2.3L, petrol, 250hp, manual) with 286.000kms (~166.000mi) for €19.500.
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  361.  @Mpl3564  - You didn't check what car was in the timestamp I tagged, did you? Apparently not.
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  362. For recovery-only YT channels, Ron Pratt is the one to watch.
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  363. 6:10 - Hint: they were driving on the right. 😉
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  364. They were driving on the right, so it can't be Australia.
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  365. 11:45 - That wasn't heavy traffic, the traffic was literally stopped in the motorway due to the incident where the emergency was going to, which makes it even more impressive because no one was making room the same way they do when moving, drivers had to be creative with the limited amount of space they had to the vehicle in front of them.
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  366. Speaking from a portuguese perspective: we always had Toyotas, Hondas, Mitsubishis or Nissans but back in the 80's, 90's and 00's they were less sought after because they were more expensive than their european counterparts due to being imported from Japan. Back in those days, even BMWs were more common here than japanese cars. Now, add to the import fees the fact that in those decades many eastern european countries were under soviet rule or were still submerged in the post-soviet era independence turmoil and there's the probable cause for the lack of japanese cars in those countries.
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  367. Ah, the good old days when we could watch F1 on Eurosport for free and with English commentaries... Sadly, money took over and it's all paid now.😞
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  368.  @ArthurTanner-d7s  - Tell me something I don't already know.
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  369. Dude, I completely forgot about the Pegaso! I used to see them all the time here in Portugal. 🙂
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  370.  @baldyhead  - It doesn't really matter if they made it in the US or not, my point is that any US american who hears a Blur song will immediately know where they're from.
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  371. 9:20 - The Saturn Vue is the same as the Opel Antara here in Europe.
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  372.  @RazudMezeghis  Just because you didn't see one doesn't mean they're rare, I just did a quick search on the portuguese used car market and found 3 of them for sale.
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  373. 1:55 - That Saturn is basically a rebadged Opel Astra H, that was manufactured between 2004 and 2009. The letter signifies the evolution of the model, like the Mk1, Mk2, Mk3 etc on other brands: Astra F (1991-1998), Astra G (1998-2004), Astra H (2004-2009), Astra J (2009-2015), and so on. 🙂 One correction to the article: europeans love the Opel Astra, not the Vauxhall Astra. Vauxhall is exclusive to the UK. If you want to see some new and old cars and motorcycles, some oddities and some very typical vehicles I came across on portuguese roads and streets, may I suggest these 4 compilations I put together some years ago? You don't need to mute the audio if you don't want to, it's not copyrighted, and the videos are all under 5 minutes. Here are the links: - Compilation 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASl_xP7NwO4&t=1s&pp=ygUabW9kdWxlNzlMIHZlaGljbGUgc3BvdHRpbmc%3D - Compilation 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38O4h-eEDww&pp=ygUabW9kdWxlNzlMIHZlaGljbGUgc3BvdHRpbmc%3D - Compilation 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_vcb5bDz3s&pp=ygUabW9kdWxlNzlMIHZlaGljbGUgc3BvdHRpbmc%3D - Compilation 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mfKLOSU4W8&pp=ygUabW9kdWxlNzlMIHZlaGljbGUgc3BvdHRpbmc%3D
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  374.  @johnd8892  - If whoever made the video can include defunct brands, I can also point them out.
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  375. Why would they put sugar in pizzas? Because sugar (and I'm talking about refined sugar) is a drug and like any drug, it causes addiction and makes you keep consuming those products more and more.
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  376. You really need to learn how to pronounce Scania... 😉
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  377.  @PFALZBUY67471  - We're talking about the Calibra, not the Astra.
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  378. @ - Each R1 generation lasted for two years (1st gen: 1998-1999, 2nd gen: 2000-2001, 3rd gen: 2002-2003, 4th gen: 2004-2005) except the 5th, which only came out one year (2006). That's when the generations switched to odd years: 6th gen: 2007-2008 (the 1st with the 16 valve engine) and then the 7th gen (2009-2010), the 1st with the crossplane engine.
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  379.  @forten8066  - But if you have a separate light or sign that allows you to turn right, you're not really turning right on red, are you? 😉
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  380. 6:30 - And let's not forget one very important thing, Ian: he's driving an AWD car! 13:45 - That was in Japan, hence the warning that the car has the steering wheel on the other side. 😉
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  381.  @jisatsu25  - *negative If you're going to correct someone, at least make sure you don't make mistakes yourself. 😉
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  382. 4:58 - That wasn't the same Mercedes, the other one had something on the roof, like a Taxi sign or something, and the rims are different.
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  383. How do they fit? The answer is simple: the camera lens distorts the perception of width, making the road look narrower than it really is.
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  384. I used to follow Rallycross on Eurosport in the 90's and one time I watched an interview with Martin where he said that Ford delivered his new car for the season (it was the Ford RS2000, if I'm not mistaken) with around 900hp at 10.000rpm and he sent it back for a detune because not even him could handle that beast. 😆
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  385.  @augure2589  - I know.
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  386.  @valije  - My 1st bike, a 1988 Yamaha XT 350, came with one of those. 🙂 They looked nice on old vehicles but they would look very outdated on modern vehicles. Plus, there's the non-reflective issue.
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  387. 5:21 - And so are all the others, there wasn't a single RWD car in this video. 😉
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  388. 1:56 - Ian, did you notice that the voice in the video was talking about american trucks while showing a video of an long nose... Volvo? 😉
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  389. It's called the same here in Portugal, ever since the 1st model came out. I guess it's called the same everywhere but in the States. 😄
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  390. Ah, a snowy RAC Rally, a thing of the past. We can see how much the climate has changed in the last 40 years just by watching footage of certain rallies year after year.
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  391. 3:51 - The navigator must've eaten more than he should at lunch. 🤣 4:13 - That's the famous Fafe jump in Portugal. Spectators gather by the thousands at the top of the hill to see what driver has the cojones to jump the longest distance. There are many videos on YT, even from WRC, with the best jumps from several years. 🙂 4:42 - Old Subarus, man, they sounded amazing!
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  392. As someone from a country that has real castles, most of these are just palaces with high walls around them. I wouldn't call them castles.
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  393.  @DameMitHermelin  - If they weren't they couldn't have signed up to join the EU.
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  394. 1:02 - For Ian: the only hatchback Mercedes has is the A-Class.
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  395. 1:25 - It wasn't a he, it was a she! 3:18 - Iveco is an italian brand.
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  396. 5:18 - It's not for entertainment, it's to show the reality. Why would they include them if they were making a video exposing dumb people? It would completely defeat the purpose.
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  397. Here in Portugal it's on Sundays, also at noon. My city's FD still uses the mechanical, rotary siren that everyone is familiar with for many years now. What we hear in the video doesn't make justice to how it sounds in real life and there's a lot more that the human ear can't hear but the poor dogs can. 😄
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  398. This is a Trail, it has hardly anything to do with the Dakar Rally besides having trucks competing in it but even so, they're VERY different from the ones in the Dakar. There were no australian teams competing there, Outback Import is a french offroad accessories' brand.
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  399. 5:55 - That'd be until you had to downshift because then you'd be regretting choosing that car. xD
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  400.  @toaojjc  - Yep, your "terras" is exactly the same as our "terraço". It's funny, "terras" in Portuguese means "lands". 😄
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  401. 2:15 - Funny (but no one is laughing) that "Western Europe" doesn't include the westernmost european country... 🙄 To me that part is Central Europe, not Western Europe. 4:13 - This video is just 10 months old but still her data is completely outdated: Germany, France and the UK (the so-called "Western Europe") are doing much worse economically than Portugal or Spain. 10:15 - The belgians even make fun of themselves, the rivalry between the wallons and the flemish in terms of offensive jokes sometimes is unparalleled! 😄 10:40 - But every state feels the same about Florida, right Ian? 😉
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  402. Fortunately, so far this year we (Portugal) have not been affected by this "Hell Niño", either in terms of temperatures or wildfires (me knocks on wood). We've been having some wildfires but they have been lasting only a few hours. Today (27/7) there was one caused by a car that caught fire while towing a caravan on the A2 motorway near the Algarve (southern region) and the fire spread to the countryside near the motorway, destroying 20 behives nearby. Speaking of the US heatwave, I saw on the news that the highest water temperature ever, 38ºC (~100ºF), was recorded in Florida. I can only imagine the damage it caused to the ocean life...
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  403. In Brazil, by law, "extra virgin olive oil" only needs to have a minimum of 15% of olive oil to be considered "extra virgin", so it's not just a US thing.
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  404. 3:56 - What kind of question is that and what kind of correct answer is that? Firstly, it's not the car that starts, it's the engine, and secondly, diesel engines don't have sparks. 6:20 - In Portugal: seatbelts -> December 15th 1977; airbags -> mandatory in all vehicles as of 2006 but I drove a 1992 car that already had a driver-side airbag from the factory.
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  405. 2:20 - Diesel. All the ICE versions have twin cylinder diesel tractor engines. The reason behind this is that the tractors those engines come from are already limited in power and max speed, so it doesn't take much development, they just use what's already available. Very low maintenance and easy to work on. Now some manufacturers also offer electric versions. 2:55 - The main restriction, and the one that allows these things to fall into the moped category, is the sticker you saw in the back: 45km/h (~28mph). However, we all know that the manufacturers don't exactly set the limiter to that figure. 4:40 - Exactly, it's not a manual and it's not an auto, it has a moped-like CVT transmission (no forward gears). 11:20 - There's the "american" in you coming out again; I drive a car with a 2.0 turbodiesel ,101hp engine, and recently I made a 250km trip (~155mi) with 3 people and a full load, A/C on and it didn't break a sweat. Cars with engines below 200hp can handle the A/C perfectly fine. 12:25 - Some of the older, more barebones' units did have drums in the back and discs in the front but from what I've seen (they're everywhere here in Portugal) the more modern models have discs all around. 13:24 - That info is wrong. None of the microcars have 50cc engines, they would be too small for the size and weight of the vehicle. The minimum displacement is usually 500cc.
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  406. @IWrocker - I kind of figured you weren't but hey, a few more comments don't hurt, quite the contrary. 😉
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  407.  @SMlFFY85  - The driver gets a fine, the vehicle has to be towed out of the motorway and then is impounded.
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  408. @kathylecluyse7820 - I know all of that, hence my comment. We have them here in Portugal as well and (unfortunately) with the same type of rules as to who can drive them. The only difference is that they're limited to 50km/h, the same as the mopeds.
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  409. You do realise that they use VW engines, don't you? So any VW, Audi or Seat with the same engine will sound the same, it's not a Skoda sound. Btw, the side-by-side style of video positioning makes the cars look weird. Another thing: are you familiar with the 25 year rule? Because if you are you know that you could only buy Skodas up to 1998.
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  410. It's the base of a bridge pillar and that valley is very real. Go watch the original video.
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  411. Yeah, V4s are mostly motorcycle "country".
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  412.  @Alwaysincognito17  - Hint: Portugal.
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  413. 0:10 - Heidfeld, not Heidfield. 😉
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  414.  @JaNouWatIkVind  - It's older than that. In my 5th and 6th grades (1976-1977) we already had to choose between English and French as a second language. In my 7th, 8th and 9th grades (1978-1980) we had mandatory English and French and we could choose a third optional language if we wanted to (Spanish or German).
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  415.  @Rasarel  I think you're replying to the wrong person, I never said they did.
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  416.  @Moonchild0  - My point was that learning a 2nd or 3rd language in school, regardless of the country, is not a 21st century thing.
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  417.  @Rasarel  - Then tag the person you're replying to, otherwise you're replying to my OP. 😉
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  418.  @nbarrio  - A bilingual person is someone who speaks their native language plus a second language at a conversational level, not someone who speaks two languages besides their native one. There's nothing difficult to understand about it.
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  419.  @sigmundklaus  - A bilingual person is someone who can communicate equally in two different languages, just that. There's nothing in the definition of bilingual that says that both languages have to be mother tongues. Maybe you should've checked the definition before attempting to correct me.
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  420.  @sigmundklaus  - You do that.
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  421.  @johanneswerner1140  - Don't sell yourself short. For most US americans, being "only fluent in three languages" makes you a hyper giga chad polyglot. 😄
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  422.  @ThePapaja1996  - What has that got to do with my comment?
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  423. 24:10 - You had the Chevy Volt, the aussies had the Holden Volt and we had the Opel Ampera, just to be different. But hey, volts, amps, it's all electricity-related! 😄
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  424. It's not always the drivers' fault, it can also be the streets' design. When all the lanes go in one direction, like in the US, it's going to be more difficult for the ambulance to create space like in the polish clip, where it can use the oncoming lane to go through faster.
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  425. There were a couple of slow motion shots where you can clearly see that the fire was around the cockpit, not in it. You just didn't notice them.
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  426. Who is flying these things? Underpaid pilots, that's who. RyanAir is notorious for not complying with the work regulations and workers' rights of the countries they operate in.
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  427. Sorry but no one makes more things out of a pig than the portuguese. And when I saw that nothing goes to waste and we eat everything, I mean it! 😄
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  428. Black Friday outside of the US is just another example of the "we're all living in Amerika" pandemic. Fortunately, the advertisers and sellers give more importance to it than the majority of the consumers. Saying that the US flag is a symbol of unity in the most divided country in the world is kind of a contradiction.
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  429. 5:00- Hi Ian, portuguese here. Just so you have an idea, here are the highest temperatures recorded between July 8th and 17th, the duration of this heatwave: July 8th: 110.3ºF (43.5ºC) July 9th: 111ºF (44ºC) July 10th: 109.6ºF (43.1ºC) July 11th: 109.2ºF (42.9ºC) July 12th: 112.3ºF (44.6ºC) July 13th: 115.3ºF (46.3ºC) July 14th: 116.6ºF (47ºC) July 15th: 113.7ºF (45.4ºC) July 16th: 111.6ºF (44.2ºC) July 17th: 111.6ºF (44.2ºC) Mind you, these were not limited to a specific region or one single weather station, they happened all over the country. In the last two days the heatwave started to fade out a bit on the coastal areas and the highs were limited more to the interior regions. Here's the list of how many stations out of the 134 recorded temperatures above 104ºF (40ºC) in each day: July 8th: 24 July 9th: 36 July 10th: 24 July 11th: 21 July 12th: 58 July 13th: 71 July 14th: 58 July 15th: 25 July 16th: 20 July 17th: 20 The highest temperature ever recorded here is 117.1ºF (47.3ºC) on August 1st 2003, the second highest are now 116.6ºF (47ºC), one on the same day as the previous one and the other on July 14th 2022, and the 3rd highest was 116.2ºF (46.8ºC), in Central Portugal near where I live, in August 2018. One curious fact: the previous record of the station that registered the highest temperature on this heatwave (Pinhão, Douro River valley) was 114.8ºF (46ºC), registered on July 31st 1944! There are more temperatures above 104ºF (40ºC) recorded in the 20th century, which goes to show that these high temperatures are not exclusive of the last 15 years, the difference being that they spanned over a period of 70 years and they're not as many as the ones we've had in this century mostly in 3 years: 2003, 2018 and 2022.
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  430.  @IWrocker  - Fortunately it only happened in 3 of the 22 years so far but the 1st and the 2nd were 15 years apart and the last one was only 4 years ago. The heatwaves are also starting to last longer, in this one my district's capital (Santarém) recorded the highest number of days: 13 in a row! O_o
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  431. *It doesn't
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  432. Here in Portugal we (the customers) are also victims of the "we're all living in Amerika" phenomenon when it comes to gas stations. Not in the size department (fortunately) but in the business model (unfortunately). I live in a city that has 6 gas stations withing the city limits, 4 of them follow the gas station/convenience store model and the other 2 are only gas stations: one of them still has an attendant to fill up your vehicle and receive the payment and the other is self-service, you can either pay with a card at the pump itself or at a booth at the exit where there's an employee. Around here pretty much all the big supermarket chains (Intermarché, Continente, Pingo Doce and E. Leclerc) have a gas station associated with them (either in the parking lot of the stores or in a separate location) and prices are usually lower than in the branded gas stations like BP, Repsol, Cepsa, Galp or Prio but there's a general belief that the quality is also lower.
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  433. I heard on the news that temperatures could reach -36ºC in the Chicago area this Christmas weekend. Be safe, Ian.
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  434.  @ChR0nos_7734 - The answer is in my comment, didn't you read it?
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  435. 8:23 - That's somewhat of a misconception because buses have the engine literally over the driving wheels, which is an advantage in slippery conditions.
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  436. 1:52 - It's the second. 😉
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  437. The Isuzu MU-X is based on the chassis of the D-Max pickup. They're not sold here in Portugal but funnily enough, they're sold in Mozambique by a portuguese car dealer, the Entreposto Group.
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  438. Me, a portuguese who's used to the natural look of food, I can't even conceive the need for food colouring in the first place, let alone turning it into something accepted as normal by the american society, but I'm not laughing at you, I'm just shaking my head in disbelief.
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  439. Isn't it "amazing" that on TikTok north american and mainland european cars suddenly became RHD and UK, Australian and South African cars suddenly became LHD? And that (pretty much) everyone on TikTok is left-handed? And also that TikTokers developed a new form of writing, where letters and words are written backwards? SMH...
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  440. 2:27 - It's a 3.0 V6 twin turbo TDI. 3:40 - 335d is a straight 6 twin turbo. 5:53 - It has the same engine as the Audi A6. 7:55 - Correct, that's not a diesel and it was probably imported from Japan (RHD). 9:15 - Another non-diesel.
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  441. Two chocolates and a cookie are not what I would call "snacks"... 😉
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  442. 8:42 - We have the same rule here in Portugal but many drivers, me included, don't follow it because 1) it goes against the "Keep Right" rule and 2) it contradicts the definition of overtaking: 1) If I have a clear right lane in front of me, I must comply with the "Keep Right" rule and use that lane. I'm in the right, the ones driving in the middle or left lanes are in the wrong. 2) The definition of overtaking states that it implies switching lanes to carry out that manoeuvre, so in a situation like the one in the video I wouldn't be overtaking anyone because I'm not switching lanes and therefore I'm not breaking the "No Overtaking On The Right" rule. If I was behind that white car and used the empty right lane to overtake it, then I'd be breaking the law. The way it's written, complying with our "No Overtaking On The Right" rule (meaning everyone had to switch two or three lanes to the left to overtake the idiots "planted" in the middle lane for kms and kms) just creates far more dangerous situations and disruption to the traffic flow than complying with the "Keep Right" rule and follow the definition of overtaking. 14:00 - "Annoying" is an understatement, Ian. The lack of compliance with that number 3 rule is one of my biggest pet peeves about how some portuguese drivers drive: over here, too many people slow down to 90 km/h (or even less!) a long way before their exit on a 120 km/h motorway, while still on the motorway! 😡
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  443. 2:30 - Correct, this is Historic Racing. 3:40 - Of course you liked that one, the Mercedes V8 is the best sounding V8 out there. : D
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  444. This looks like an obstacle track for offroad vehicles' testing, probably Mercedes owned.
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  445. 14:22 - It looks like an Ami but it's not, it's the Opel Rocks-e, one of the Stellantis' trio of small electric vehicles, based on the same platform and with the same drivetrain, that can be driven without a DL. The other two are the Citröen Ami (the original) and the new Fiat Topolino. 🙂
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  446.  @MrTheStare  - I'm aware of that but I doubt Ian has ever watched a Louis de Funès movie. 😄
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  447. Now that Ian experienced the onboard lap of the IOM TT in a car, can someone with more "power" than I have him react to the same lap but on the HR2, the full onboard video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZrXk_ZEpgI)? Thanks in advance! 🙂
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  448. I just wrote a comment about the same thing. I'm sure he wasn't thinking clearly when he presented that logic to defend the "american way". 😄
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  449.  @IWrocker  - Oh, and Mat Watson (the host) also does car reviews. It's a good way for you to become familiar with cars that you'll never see in the US market. 😀
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  450. Man, I'm so glad you looked up Hillclimb Monsters' channel for this series, so that you know what you've been missing out on for not reacting to more of their videos. Not only they're very well produced, they include information about every single car (something you don't see in any other channel), they have lots of onboard footage and, of course, the sounds. They have compilations of the best sounding N/A and turbocharged engines in hillclimb racing, along with some of the craziest machines with the craziest engine swaps and engine combinations that you can imagine. I guarantee you that you'll feel like a kid in a candy store everytime you watch one of their videos! 🙂 Btw, in case you were wondering what's that white and blue Ford at 11:35, it's a Ford Capri.
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  451. Those Fiat and Peugeot vans may look different but they share the same platform, with some different bits. The same for Citröen and Opel.
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  452. The bikes are bespoke-built exclusively for this type of racing and they're not road legal. This is probably the only professional motorised sport where 2-stroke engines weren't banned yet. 3:25 - That guy is the rider's "coach" (so to speak) and he's allowed to be on the course to help guide the rider, on the more difficult obstacles, but he isn't allowed to help the rider overcome the obstacles, he's there only to assist the rider in case he falls or he's in a potentially dangerous situation, like you saw on a few occasions in the video. 🙂
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  453. 11:45 - That person is wrong, our tax dollars don't pay for healthcare because we don't use dollars in Europe. 😂
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  454. 6:27 - The white van driver did the right thing, Ian. They had a clear lane in front of them, so it was much better to just go instead of standing there and force the ambulance to zig-zag through traffic. Some people will disagree because "it's mandatory to stop" but if the van had stopped it would've blocked the ambulance or at least delayed its progression, that's why you hear the ambulance honking for it to go at 6:23.
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  455. 6:35 - Yeah, he messed up pretty bad on that particular example. There were a few V4 engines in cars but what matters here is that a 3-cylinder engine can never be a V4. Also, 3L V8s? My guess is that his vehicular knowledge is somewhat limted but that's no excuse because he could've easily research these things before making the video.
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  456. 3:43 - That sign stands for Cohexistence Zone: it's a public space especially designed to be shared between pedestrians and motor vehicles, with specific rules. The sign is the same for all EU countries, with only some small differences in the pictures. 6:55 - All that talk about the light bulb and you didn't even notice the brand name! 14:38 - As a portuguese person, of course I have driven across that bridge many times. As for how long does it take to cross it, it depends on the traffic conditions, the weather conditions and whether you're going North to South or vice-versa.
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  457.  @alexisborden3191  - I didn't write "would", I wrote "could".
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  458. 4:21 - "THANKS FOR 25,000 SUBSCRIBERS! SUBSCRIBE TO AUTOMATICALLY ENTER TO WIN A FREE IPHONE 7+" Huh?!?!
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  459. @kevinshort3943 - Probably because it isn't true.
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  460. 5:30 - And that wasn't even an A4, it was an old school, old tech Audi 80! 7:04 - No surprises here, it's a TDI. 😉
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  461.  @Seb-Storm  - Ian knows that one.
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  462.  @KristoferOlsson  - When did GM sell Opel? I'm asking because every part I can look at in my 2001 Opel Astra has a GM brand on it, as well as all the OEM parts I bought up until now.
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  463. Fun Fact: Ligier, one of the big F1 teams between 1976 and 1996, also make these microcars. Obviously they have no F1 technology in them. 😄
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  464. I'm definitely going to check the original video, Ian, because it's not backwards like yours. I can't stand inverted videos.
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  465. Autocross only uses dirt tracks, the combined ones are for rallycross. Autocross is the 4-wheeled version of motocross, while rallycross is the 4-wheeled version of supermoto.
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  466. That definitely belongs in r/Next Level! 😄
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  467. *brake, not break. 😉
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  468. This is definitely in Galicia, otherwise the vehicles would have the Castillian "bomberos" written on them instead of the Galician "bombeiros".
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  469.  @serkovskyy732  - I said it's not a regular M4, read my comment again.
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  470. The 1st clip is so typical US american and so not typical US american at the same time. Let me explain: he changed everything possible to miles on the display, on a country that uses kms, but on the other hand he's driving a diesel car. 😄 8:10 - I'm with you on this one, Ian, but do you know what you can do to practice, in case one day you come to visit the UK? Sit on the passenger seat of your manual car and start shifting gears with your left hand as if you were in a RHD car. As unnatural as it'll feel for someone who's used to having 1st and 2nd close to you and not away from you, if you practice enough, maybe you'll get the hang of it. Maybe. 17:25 - Here's a useful tip if you don't understand the language to figure out what's the right fuel: the green nozzles are for gasoline and the black/red or black/yellow are for diesel. Then it's just a question of choosing which type of gasoline or diesel to use: regular gasoline usually says 95, premium usually says 98 or higher, regular diesel is the black nozzle and premium diesel is the other colour. Gasoline also says E5 or E7 (E stands for Ethanol) and diesel also says B7 or B10 (B stands for Biofuel). This may vary slightly from country to country.
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  471. It seems like he hasn't yet learned how we count the floors in Europe. I don't believe he lives in a 4 storey house.
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  472. I'm not a native English speaker, Ian, but I'm pretty sure you meant "winding" and not "windy" (as in "with lots of wind") road. 😅
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  473.  @gar6446  - I couldn't find any online English dictionary where windy is synonymous with "curvy" or "twisty".
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  474.  @LachlanPhil  - We also have the Renault version (Trafic), of course, but not the Mitsubishi. The only Mitsubishi vans we've ever had were the L300 and L400. We do have the Nissan NV300, which is another Trafic in "disguise", just like the Fiat Talento in the video and the Opel Vivaro.
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  475.  @KingKayn-kh8qi  - Yeah, that driver must've got his license from a cereal box...
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  476. Auto parking is for lazy people.
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  477. 2:35 - Me: "wait until you realise it's a manual..." 😁
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  478. I think the reason why you love the sound of those old Subarus is because unconsciously it kind of reminds you of the V8 sound. ; )
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  479. It can't be the fastest truck on Earth because it's not a truck. 😉
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  480. Sometimes I wonder if the "I" in AI means ignorance... I hope you appealed, the infringement should be dismissed in a blink of an eye.
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  481.  @TheAquarius1978  - Sim, portas blindadas da Dierre. Aqui perto da minha casa há uma rua com 18 prédios a ladeá-la, construídos entre 1998 e 2005, e quase todos têm portas destas nos apartamentos.
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  482.  @TheAquarius1978  - Eu não consideraria estes apartamentos como luxuosos mas o que é facto é que na altura os construtores usavam muito aquelas portas.
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  483.  @Alias_Anybody  - Data to back up that claim?
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  484. @BennyMortmaigne-k1l - But milk chocolate isn't plain chocolate, is it? 😉
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  485.  @Roberternst72  - You sound like you've never seen basic chocolate in your life. The brand I buy (minimum 70% cocoa and no sugar added) has no milk whatsoever in its composition. That brand also has milk chocolate, almond chocolate and other varieties. I don't know about Milka but many other brands that have chocolate plus something also have basic chocolate, ranging from 50% to 90% cocoa.
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  486. 5:58 - It's only a win for a carcentric country that has no consideration whatsoever for pedestrians and cyclists. You don't want to just stand there waiting, idling and polluting the air? You want quick and convenient? We have that, it's your beloved roundabout. 6:36 - No, in no circumstance drivers are allowed to cross red lights in Europe. Drivers can only go when the light is green or flashing yellow for them but in the latter case they must proceed with care because they're about to cross the path of traffic that has priority over them. 22:46 - Yeah, you're overthinking it. Traffic lights are on the drivers' side of the intersections for the same reason that we can't go on a red light under any circumstance.
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  487.  @TheAquarius1978  - Ele disse claramente duas vezes que os ditos veículos são 50cc e, para reforçar a sua "ignorância", até disse que se tivessem mais cilindrada precisavam de carta de condução, quando neste caso é a velocidade máxima e não a cilindrada que determina a habilitação para conduzir estes veículos. E para terminar, ele também disse que havia veículos destes com 500cc mas que não sabia muito sobre eles. 🤦‍♂
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  488. I wouldn't categorise McDisease's food, or any fast food, as "better" anywhere vs. somewhere. It's all bad, just different levels of bad.
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  489. There's one very interesting map missing in that video: the one that shows that the portuguese sailors were the first europeans to land in Australia, almost a century before the dutch and more than 2 centuries before Cook.
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  490. 12:20 - If you didn't know that Rolex is swiss, then you're in for a big surprise, Ian. Take a look at the list of the more famous swiss watches' brands: - Swatch - Tissot - Omega - TAG Heuer - Longines - Breitling - Zenith - Hublot How many of these did you think were american? 😄
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  491.  @piiluja  - My point is that they're not sold as Fiat or Citröen or Peugeot, nor they have the same engines, so for them it's a Dodge product.
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  492. There's something you should know that'll clear a few things about this video. Ian: this is not a WRC car, it's a WRC-2 car, that's why it's quieter, "slower" and doesn't have paddle shifters like the "big boys". 🙂
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  493.  @boxenjoyerkona  - I don't know where Franco is from but here in Portugal it's been some years now that it's mandatory that all sockets/outlets come with child protection. Even the crappy ones sold by the chinese shops!
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  494. 1:10 - No earthquakes in Europe? Here in Portugal there are more than a thousand A DAY, between 2 and 2.9 in the Richter scale.
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  495. 10:10 - Didn't you notice in the first video that the driver had to put it in neutral between every gear shift?
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  496. You should listen more to how people pronounce Scania, Ian, the way you say it sounds weird. 😉
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  497. Here in Portugal it was called "Laranjina C", a mix of "Laranja" (orange in Portuguese) and "vitamina C" (vitamine C in Portuguese). It's was made here but not anymore, now we also have the international Orangina.
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  498.  @NorwayVFX  - I can assure you I'm not alone.
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  499. 7:35 - This is the perfect example of why inverted videos piss me off to no end: they're trying to demonstrate "right before left" in a clip where the driver is sitting on the right side of the car, saying "right" while gesturing with the left hand and saying "left" while gesturing with the right hand. How are the viewers supposed to understand what they're trying to point out? 🤦‍♂ 8:20 - The yield sign is an inverted triangle, in fact it's the only inverted triangle of all the road signs. The other triangular signs in the normal position, like the sign in the clip, are warning signs. This particular sign warns drivers that there's an intersection up ahead but the main road/street has priority over the adjacent roads/streets.
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  500. Ok, this time I'm gonna be "that guy": where's Austin, Morris, Rover, Reliant, Hillman, Talbot, Sunbeam, Marcos or the biggest miss of all, Triumph, I ask to whoever made that video? All British Car Brands? What a load of bollocks!
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  501. Californians (and americans from other states, too) are "flocking" to Portugal, not Australia or Canada, so at least for them, these indexes don't matter much.
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  502. Did you know that Nando's was co-founded by a portuguese named... Fernando? That's why their logo has the Barcelos' rooster, the unofficial symbol of Portugal. Oh and the spice is called piri-piri. 😉
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  503.  @littlecatfeet9064  - I'm going to start off by saying that I'm portuguese. I didn't say that Nando's menu was wrong, what I said was that the spice is called piri-piri in the language where the name originated from, which is Portuguese.
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  504. 6:55 - No, Ian, it's a Toyota Carina. 😉
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  505. 10:16 - It's a Dacia, a romanian car brand that's owned by Renault.
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  506.  @IcanBePsycho  - No worries, mate! 👍
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  507. About Adidas: it's a german brand and the australians pronounce it like the germans, so I'd say they're more "right". About Hyundai: the name has a "y" after the "H", so why do you americans completely ignore the "y" and pronounce it "Hun"? You're obviously wrong.
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  508. I'd say "no rules". Transporting loose materials over the load limit and without a cover wouldn't fly anywhere here in the EU either.
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  509. You must be referring to Jonny and Sam, the british couple who was looking to buy a property to come live here. However, that video was from last year's rally, when they were seeing properties in the Lousã area. 🙂
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  510. 0:30 - Meanwhile, in Russia, if you see a black G-Wagon in the vicinity, you get the hell out of there as fast as possible! 😄 8:13 - Because it's the famous, almost indestructible, 3.0L inline-6 diesel engine. That's why. 🙂 9:40 - This one is the long wheelbase, 5-door version. 12:20 - And this one is the shorter wheelbase, 3-door version. 13:00 - Correct on both engines' displacement and number of cylinders. 17:10 - Lol, that wasn't a recovery, Ian, it was a tug-of-war! 😆
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  511. Why would bus drivers be worried in those situations? They drive the bigger and the heavier vehicles, they're not afraid of anyone! 😄 If you drove an F-150 anywhere in Europe, Ian, the only thing you should worry about would be the fuel price, not the narrow streets. 😉 The scooter and bike riders were not cutting anyone, they're allowed to do that. It's called mobility, something the US americans would never understand. 16:33 - It's an old Fiat Fiorino. It's the same type of vehicle as a VW Caddy or an Opel Combo or a Ford Fiesta Courier or the early Renault Express or a Citröen C15.
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  512. 3:28 - She's clearly not a car connaisseur, Ian. 😉
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  513. 20:34 - Brits should look at that map to see how wrong they are when they refer to the US as "across the pond". 😆 21:29 - That explains why so many californians have moved to Portugal, they looked at the map and just followed the "line". 😄
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  514. "Emerging tourism industry" means "it's on the way to become less cheap and less nice than it is now". That's why I don't like these types of video lists, especially when made by US americans. Also, Ukraine? Really? In what world has the video guy living in the last year?
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