My new "motorcycle"

[Cormanus]

You're quite right in a geographical sense, VLJ, but the past four years of political entertainment from the United Kingdom has made abundantly clear that a majority of citizens in the UK do not want any part of Europe as a political entity. The British would not see the vehicles or the football players you mentioned as European; they'd see them as British. Your distinction, with respect, may be decidedly United States of American—as opposed to American which would at lest include Canada or maybe even the array of South American countries.

At which point we descend into an unresolvable debate about whether the political or geographic determinant should prevail.