Youtube hearted comments of Lynott Parris (@DenUitvreter).

The language issue in this is mostly that countries have different names in other languages so if asks for the letters in the country names or city names you have to think of the English name and ignore the ones in your first language.
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The beauty of the metric system is not in the origin of the meter but in the fact that a cubic meter is equal to a 1000 liter, and a thousand litre of water weighs 1000Kg. It's not how to meter relates to the earth but to other measurements. If you heat up 1 litre of water 1 degree, you have another measurement for the required energy.
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The other landlocked Latin American country must be Paraguay.
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The Citroen DS, the single greatest step forward in automotive innovation since the invention of the wheel. I like this museum, this collection is obviously a tribute to all the designers and engineers that rethought the car, that thought outside the box and therefore sometimes came up with a tear drop, or with a box.
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It must be named after Maria of Burgundy, the Duchess of Burgundy. The Duchy of Burgundy ruled over a large part of the Low Lands (today's Belgium and Netherlands) for about a century and this was a bloom time. Maria was the last one and gave the cities a lot of freedoms and privileges, was popular back then and is remembered fondly.
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Basically the 2CV is the perfect car because it can't be improved upon. If you'd try to make it better it would lose it's simplicity and get too heavy. It only works in this window of weight, minimalism and simplicity.
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We have the same here with the word for debt and guilt in the Netherlands. I doesn't necessarily imply that debt is bad, but it certainly instills the message that you have something to do, to make up for it.
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Louis de Funes was a great comedic actor, very mimical, very physical, often playing a hot tempered authority figure like the police commander. But France had and has very much it's own movie industry, and the movies are very French and a certain familiarity with Frenchness helps enjoying them. The biggest fan I knew here in the Netherlands was a friends dad, tears of laugther when there was a de Funes movie on tv allthough he had seen it before. That family went to France for vacation every year. He was restauring a Citroen DS, he got his son a 2CV to repair at 16, so it could be finished at 18. That was the first car I drove. Anyway, it's not that uncommon for Europeans to love France or be amused by the French, but it's also not to everybody's liking.
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These small Polski Fiats look small but can actually transport a whole 3 generation family, I've seen them do it behind the iron curtain.
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The Gulf Stream from the Carribean is what keeps Europe relatively warm for it's latitude, the Mediterranean is a stabilizing temperatures too. But it keeps surprising me how much more Northern Europe is too. I live in the North of the Netherlands, when I fly full West the first American state I would cross would be Alaska. The billionaires living in a rather nice climate in Monaco, who could have thought? Number of days with rain is only one indicator of how rainy it is, half an hour of drizzle on a nice day, we can live with that. It's the weeks with rain all day all the days that are bad and that is often the case in Britain, the Netherlands and parts of Belgium. The Mediterranean is more like a lake concerning the weather. The ocean with it's currents has for example much more influence on the Basque country (South-West France and Northern Spain) where it's exceptionally rainy for the latitude, the Gulf of Biscaye is famous for that.
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I don't have a musical ear myself but I understood that 5 and 10 cylinders sound this great because of the assymetry in the cylinder bank, 3 vs 2, producing a two tone exhaust note.
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You can skip the hardest countries and try the next country until your correct answers map out the place a bit and then do the hard ones.
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I believe the coin trick is almost as old as the straight 6. Balancing out a W-engine is probably a bit more complicated. Interesting cars to look at? - The Koenigsegg Gemera, a drive train like you have never heard of before, amazing innovation. - Fiat s76, not smooth at all. You couldn't balance a wet towel on that engine. - Pre WWII Porsche hybrids - Jeremy Clarkson testing the Spyker (Audi engine but that's not the most interesting) for Top Gear. Top Gear at it's best because about the car. - Mercedes 600, der Grosser. The favourite of the worst dictators. Amazing engineering. - Citroen has also done some amazing engineering, with their hydropneumatics among many other innovation. The Citroen SM being the most interesting, especially engine wise. - Pre WWII Tatra luxury cars are something else too.
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It's a really clever car with an extremely clever suspension. It can be this comfortable because the front wheel being pushed up pushes the rear wheel down keeping the car level. Due trough how the front and rear suspension are connected this works perfectly at 62 km/h for a Dutch speed bump. Go a bit slower and you're going too fast for the speedbump. It's a lovely car to drive, it was actually the first car I drove. It keeps you very much involved and you have to work to get any speed out of it, but any speed feels speedy in this car. It rolls a lot in the corners but it won't roll over or be otherwise unpredictable, only in reverse you can roll it. You can get a lot of stuff in it with the roof open, and you can take 3 tall friends and one person you don't like. You can fit that one in the middle of the rear seat and hit a bump.
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Notice the headrests. It's not all brilliant engineering, it's also a lot of elegant simplicity that is simply well thought through for your comfort. You can adjust the head rest by undoing and redoing the snap fasteners on it's front cushion. Citroen kept using that until the 80's on the GS for sure and also the CX if I remember correctly.
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He just can't wait to plough trough it with a Unimog.
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Citroen roughly had three "coach builders". Chapron and Heuliez for the fancy luxury stuff, Tissier more for the work horses. A six wheeler to get 1000 kg's of news papers from the printer over the high ways at high speed to spread the morning news early, things like that, some are converted to campers. They also did a DS van, very extraordinary looking thing.
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This video nor the comments do justice to the brilliance of the CVT. You might not like it, but it's still brilliant and it has hardly significantly improved from the Variomatic. There was hardly any automatic option for small cars in the 50's, lots didn't even have 4 synchronized gears yet. In actual daily traffic up to about 70 km/h the undermotorized DAFs were quicker than most. The variomatic also served as a limited slip differential. It's driving ease and favouring by old people, lots of them who got their licence at later age, gave it the wrong image. DAF tried to save that by rallying and introducing the Marathon coupe, but it was too late and they kept using the CVT to compensate for lack of power and torque.
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Japan is famous for it's vending machines, even some with live crabs. The Dutch have besides strawberry vending machines in the country side also hot fried food vending machines, especially at night they are very popular.
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When Ajax got their new Stadium in Amsterdam about 25 years ago, people complained it lacked atmosphere. The supporters took it upon themselves to improve the atmosphere about 10 years later, the club cooperated, and now it's famour for it's atmosphere around Europe. I myself am I fan rather than a supporter, they don't always manage a good job, but they try to help their team win rather than reacting to the entertainment. Basketbal in South-East Europe gets heated too.
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I did have a Countach poster but I never liked it, it was a present. I love the original prototype Countach, in yellow, with the louvres for air intakes. It lost it's clean, pure lines because of cooling issue and the wings and wheel arches kept making it worse. My taste developped rapidly in those days, especially under the influence of a book with concepts by Guigiaro, Pininfarina, Bertone and Ghia. So I would get a book about Ferrari as a birthday or St.Nick gift when already my interest had shifted to Maserati and Lamborghini. My uncle got it right though, we didn't speak that often so he had to go by his own taste and brought me a poster, framed with glass, of a Mercedes 300SL roaster. The 80's is an interesting decade and the decade of my teens, but during that I grew very fond of the clean edgy 70's designs, starting in the late 60's, and the 50's with Vignale, Allemano, Frua, Ghia the last coachbuilders with their mad ideas. Even Pininfarina went totally bonkers with a Maserati back then, and Pegaso cars from Spain deserves a mention too. I also love the Art deco era, in both the USA and Europe, Cord 812, Auburn, Hispano-Suiza, coach builders for Talbot and Delahaye like Figoni e Falaschi, Saoutchik, the Buccali V12 front wheel drive for example.
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I know a guy that is a pin striper and rust painter and he has plenty of work, mostly on American cars of course and he owns two too. And that is in the Netherlands, while Sweden is known for it's huge American car scene. Apparently Swedish winters are quite mild on cars too. A classic American V8, up until the 80's, is a stand out car in Europe simply by it's dimensions and sound. And not just compared to other cars, but they make streets look small too. They have total different experience inside and handling too. There have always been people that collect Americana. It's not that unuasal for Europeans to have a foreign country's culture as kind of a hobby. Someone with a car like might also have a jukebox at home or something like that.
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The Citroen BX 4TC is certainly the most comfortable Group B rally car. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpXOkc1Lin4 The Citroen SM must also have made a very comfortable rally car but that car with the Maserati V6 in general deserves a reaction video here.
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'Hieronymous' is actually the latinized version of Jeroen just like Jerome is the anglofied/francofied version of Jeroen. 'Translating' names was normal back then and for example Henry VIII would be called Hendrik in Den Bosch and Enrico in Leonardo's Vinci. Jeroen might have been shortened to Joen. His official name like in the church's baptizing record might have been Hieronymous from the start, there's a long tradtion of Dutch first names that are used to call someone being different from the official and often Latin first name(s), but I don't know if that goes back that far.
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Giugiaro did a masterful job with the wheel flares and lightcatcher combination on the Maserati Quattroporte III.
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Let's not forget that Americans and British are prudish by continental European standards and especially in past centuries they would not have liked any unnecessary attention towards the naughty bits. Many would have been embarassed by the thought of it alone.
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@TastingHistory Appreciate it. I understand how it works, and that means that Britain gets much more attention on YT, and we miss out on some other interesting food stories, it is what it is and that's okay. But I would appreciate the distinction to be recognized and made clearly, especially since Europeans differed even more from eachother back then and more from the overseas Britain. Otherwise the dominance of the English language automatically and silently distorts history a bit and that is not necessary.
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@IWrocker Love your attitude and curiosity, cars or beer. I just like to explain things, not give you homework to spoil the fun.
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