Originally Posted by KeithTexas

Gorgeous car. Glad your springtime in England is "a joy to behold". In Texas, we'll have a few nice spring days (dodging thunderstorms) before the brutal heat arrives!

A few questions for you just because I'm curious about the differences in the UK cars:

1. What was your solution to your locked "boot"? That happens on occasion and some people have to manipulate the locking system through the license plate light opening. (Or, I guess as you Brits say, the "number plate". Is that right?!)

2. I noticed in your photograph, with your "right-hand-drive", you have a slightly different headlight switch than what I've seen here. It appears that you have a separate fog-light switch. We have to switch our lights on and pull the switch out, to switch on our fog lights. Is that fog-light switch common over there?

3. Do you have a two-position fog light that switches on a rear fog light? I think that's common in Europe. We can pull our fog-light switch out to two clicks but the second click doesn't do anything on my car.

4. It looks like you have the two-position parking light switch just like we do. If you turn the switch counter-clockwise (I guess y'all say "anti-clockwise") you get parking lights that illuminate one side at a time. Our first position illuminates the right-side (our passenger-side) parking lights and the second position illuminates the left side. Is yours the opposite of that? Just curious.

5. Your center console looks the same as ours. But, I'm sure they have reversed the wiring for the window switches so the driver's side window switch is closest to the driver. Is that correct? But, they didn't reverse the cigarette lighter....so I guess your passenger has to reach across the gear shift in order to "light-up" while in the car.

6. Do you have a British owner's manual and service manual that has the words translated?! That might be a collector's item. Boot for trunk. Bonnet for hood. Demister for defroster. Gear lever for gear shift. Indicator for turn signal. Jump lead for jumper cable. Milometer for odometer. Petrol for gasoline. Reversing lights for backup lights. Silencer for muffler. Windscreen for windshield. Wing for fender. Or do you have to translate on your own, our American English to your English?!

Thanks for sharing the photographs. I like to see the interiors of our cars as much as the exterior. Enjoy your springtime driving!