[en.wikipedia.org] The MOT test (Ministry of Transport, or simply MOT) is an annual test of vehicle safety, roadworthiness aspects and exhaust emissions required in the United Kingdom for most vehicles over three years old used on any way defined as a road in the Road Traffic Act 1988; it does not apply only to highways (or in Scotland a relevant road) but includes other places available for public use, which are not highways.[1] In Northern Ireland the equivalent requirement applies after four years.[2] The requirement does not apply to vehicles used only on various small islands with no convenient connection "to a road in any part of Great Britain";[3] no similar exemption is listed at the beginning of 2014 for Northern Ireland, which has a single inhabited island, Rathlin.[4]

@Gurahl -- Didn't say anything about it being bad, but I am stuck here. In spite of the fact that I can think of several places I'd rather be (even in NM), I like it just fine. Home for me is wherever I am.

Out here on the Permian there is much left to be desired. Las Cruces, Alamagordo, Ruidoso, Silver City, and Taos come to mind rather quickly.