>>interesting: Canadian site prefers gray to grey...
>It's one of those where I never bothered to memorize which is UK which is US version. I just use whichever is near.

For me one of the things school bolted in my mind:
often around US housing as a teen I had written "gray" in an English test.
No amount of argument (even with US newspaper supporting my alternative) changed teacher objections -
since then I memorized that American Greyhound bus is the only correct British spelling over there ;-)

Secondary defense line was US spelling might have been influenced by German "grau"
Canadian site also going for gray flies smack in the face of French "gris" ?
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>My point is to always drive a car at least five years old, not too fancy and with the wrong type of gear shift. Presently, 15 year old sky blue C4 picasso with automatic - in a country where 90%+ cars have manual. In the US, it was a 5-speed corolla and a matrix, 6-speed (for the last six months), both manual. So the stealability factor was below 0,15 or better. If 90% of Americans can't drive shift, the car thieves are the more stupid population, so among them the percentage is actually worse. Never any trouble.

For me it was 2-3 y old when I was younger and drove more than 30K Km per year.
Later till now 5y old cars were good buys, esp. as stick shift with strongest engines get most price reduction -
not caring for luxury except air conditioning (quite early - going suited into meeting fresh from drive taught me)
and well formed and possibly leather driver seat - long H and many Km were good advisors.
Nice audio nowadays common place - sunk some effort there till early 90ies

>I'd chalk it up to our general art of flying below the radar.

Last century I wished for radar protection on Autobahn, but no stealth car bodies were available.