Well...if I may... just restating my question... My '14 Evoke wagon had the full rack change, etc. I'm hoping that I never get to meet the "Satan of Steering" any time soon!
I may be trading the car shortly and I'd like to think that whoever gets my car (which has been very well looked after) will get years of good service out of it without any steering gremlins.
Oh...and as a former chalky... "Maths" is the contraction used in all of the English-speaking world EXCEPT for the US and Canada. This from the "Grammarist" website which I've found to be invaluable for the last few years:
"Neither abbreviation is correct or incorrect. You may hear arguments for one being superior to the other, and there are logical cases for both sides. One could argue maths is better because mathematics ends in s, and one could argue math is better because mathematics is just a mass noun that happens to end in s. In any case, English usage is rarely guided by logic, and these usage idiosyncrasies are often arbitrary. If you were raised in a part of the world where people say maths, then maths is correct for you, and the same is of course true of math. Don’t listen to anyone who says otherwise."
As to Americans being "dumb" ...well they are no more "dumb" than we are with about the same ratio of kooks per capita. Australians tend to be less rabidly nationalistic and display less foolish jingoism in my experience. What you all must remember is that the US has been responsible for most of the technical advances in science, medicine and engineering for the last 80 or so years. Yes... there were people of other nationalities involved (Werner Von Braun was a former NAZI German but he pushed NASA to get men to the moon) but that's the special thing about the US. It's a big melting pot of many nationalities that all seem to blend in to become American. In that way I think they outdo our PC governments and Ivory Tower experts who push multiculturalism. In the US you are expected to think of yourself as an American once you gain citizenship and to learn English and understand a bit about American history (it's actually a part of their citizenship test). A similar situation existed for "New Australians" who could keep many aspects of their culture as long as they made an effort to learn English and assimilate into the larger Australian mix. Sadly multiculturalism has now given us groups of people arriving here with no English, no drive to learn English and no real impetus to respect Australian culture...hence all these "African Australian" lads running around doing home invasions, smash and grabs and steaming raids. Just my two cents...
