I just went through the car buying process in the UK and I noticed one major thing that is fantastic about buying a car here and one thing that’s not so great. Okay, first up, the variety of cars here is incredible. You get all of the European stuff that we don’t get in the US. The Renaults, the Citroens, the Peugeots, the Fiat’s, the estate versions of German cars, the manual transmission cars, the little tiny German hatchbacks, the A1, the 1 Series, the A Class, crazy funky old hatchbacks, Renault Aventimes, Fiat Pandas, Fiat Multipluz. You have a great car selection here. On top of that, because it’s right-hand drive and there’s very little import laws here in the UK, unlike the US, I see tons of Japanese cars, Japanese imports running around. You have a lot of, especially minivans, weirdly enough, Nissans and Toyota Alphords and stuff are really popular here, but also cooler older stuff, Civic Type R’s, Nissan Skylines, that kind of stuff. So it’s really cool that you can find all sorts of weird and funky Japanese cars on the used market here. Okay, but here’s the downside. It’s a small country. So you have a lot of model selection, but then once you find the model that you want, if you’re looking for something specific, not like a Vauxhall, but something sporty and specific, you might have three options. That’s it. It’s just such a small country and there just may not be that many on sale. On top of that, initially, when people buy cars in the UK, they’re not given as many options as a lot of other markets because it’s right-hand drive, because it’s a small market, they can’t share parts between, or they can’t export the car between multiple countries. You might have a lot less options. So let’s take like a Mercedes C-Class, like a C300, C350. In Germany and the US, you’d have like 10, 12 paint colors, a bunch of interior options you can put with any paint color, whatever. Here you might have like five. And then they’ll have like certain options packages that you can only get with certain engines and like certain things and certain packages. So like it’s very limited. So initially when you go to buy, unless you’re buying something crazy expensive, like a G Class or an S Class where it’s sort of a bespoke item, the options you can get here are somewhat limited. So for instance, on the car I was looking at, I couldn’t find a single with adaptive cruise control because on that particular engine, for those few years, they just didn’t offer adaptive cruise control. They just didn’t think it would sell. It wasn’t part of the options package. Whereas in the US, Germany, yes, totally would be there. And then that trickles down to the used market. And of course, when you’re looking at used cars, it might be hard. You know, you might find the car that you want, but you can’t find a single one that’s not like black or gray or whatever. It’s a small market. You know, you can’t import stuff or well, you wouldn’t want to import stuff from Europe because you know, left-hand drive. So that can be kind of difficult. Anyway, stay tuned for part two where I talk more about the car buying process. And some other pros and cons.