To be perfectly honest, after I made that post I regretted having posted it. I'd intended to correct my error a few days ago.

The person who made the original inquiry was British, not American. I presumed that Bod was an American because of the confusion over "using a car" versus "driving a car." And then I took a look at the profile and noticed where Bod was from. Doh!

In the U.S., nearly everyone owns a car, you almost have to own one due to much of the nation being constructed in the auto era. Additionally, the American automobile industry actually bought out and sought to eliminate some effective mass-transit systems in the mid-1900s (in California). Outside of a few large cities with good mass-transit systems (basically New York, Boston, San Francisco) the only people who don't own cars are those who cannot afford them. It's my understanding that in Europe cars tend to be owned by the wealthy and by those who live in the outlying areas. The U.S. is one rather large outlying area...

I think the best English translation for the Turkish word for "to use a car" would probably be "to ride in a car." If you ride in a car you're the passenger. You are using the car but not actually DRIVING it.

Could someone more fluent in Turkish than I (basically any of you, heh) confirm or deny?