Before we pass judgement. It’s important to remember the Chinese want legitimacy amongst regional and world powers. Their ability to poster via air to air intercepts is one way, another will be fulfilling commitments. Rather the obey protocols or not probably hinges more on that fact than any other.

How are mileage and emissions unrealistic we can build corvettes that get 20 plus mpg? We should be able to build 2.0 liter diesels that do better. Vw cut some corners and got caught it happens. Like gm and Toyota they’ll pay the fine and deal with it.

It does many people too purchase diplomatic status from their respective countries. I know of a few Pakistani families which have diplomatic immunity in the US because they are ambassador and diplomats to some irrelevant countries they have not visited ever.

Pretty much nailed it. They probably were on international licenses and would have no recourse as disallowing someone from driving is not technically a punishment. Another thing is who owns and has registered those cars? They could be seized if they are privately held by a non royal. The question though is if our gov.…

I don’t know man. I’m not unionized nor in a field that has one. I say if unions were the problem than the Germans and Japanese would have the same if not worse issues and unregulated labor markets would be havens. Essentially unions and corporations have a lot on common in terms of game theory. We out produce a lot…

One thing I’ve observed about land wars in Asia is the violence of action can very quickly turn into an utter quagmire. Sure the Russians can move APC’s, Tanks, and etc into Syria, but then the question becomes when the hell do they leave? If there’s two rules in this conflict they should be: 1. The time frame for…

How to buy the Maxima: Wait till rebates come in. The MSRP is charger territory. Nissan really needs to sit down and decide what the hell the Maxima is and is not.

1984 z28 camaro. Ohio car plus Ohio winters. At 16 I tore it a part completely. It needed floors, quarters, rockers, the center bar for the ttops....and on and on. 6 year later I o finished it and traded it for an ls1 and t56 lol. I used to bring a generator to the junk yard just to use a small compressor and power…

My current vert has a cloth top...I think it wouldn’t matter either way. Tops should be down. That is the best look for a vert, everything else is for parking and crap weather.

Glad you kept it. When I was a kid a friend of mine’s dad had a red 1999 VR4 I never gave a single half poop for Japanese cars being from Detroit. Yet the look of that thing with Red Recaros and a Harness bar was just too damn cool. One day I will have a black VR4 parked next to my Black Blown up FD RX7 which will…

Heck yeah. It’ll be great to have people who don’t care about speed runs and want to try things just because they haven’t seen it yet. This will be great!

I am cool with this as someone who has played GW2 for awhile and spent a lot of money. The biggest problem with GW2 is most of us paid players are maxed out in levels and items. That means if someone bought the game today for real money they would not have people who would quest, play, or run dungeons with them. In…

They are essentially a chain of usually 5 star rated luxury hotels. Some of the suites can double as apartments due to their size. A picture of the living room in the DC 4 Seasons Presidential Suite is above.

Crack pipe for one reason. It violates one of my craiglist rules. Rule Number 4 sub:section 5a: “Any vehicle listed for sale with nice parts that are then “not included”, but shall have “original” or lesser parts installed is indeed owned by a tool and shall not be purchased.

The problem with the Taurus was it was designed to replace the Panther platform, but few panther buyers care about Sync, Twin Turbos, or AWD. The car essentially was a Toyota Avalon geared towards the ever shrinking town car market. That being said...damn the SHO was cool. I vote Ford sends out the Taurus with a bang.…

I agree as a guy. Ironically League was the game that killed gaming for me due to the closed mindedness of the community. I worked my way up to Gold two as a Support main with Thresh. The sad part is the majority of girls I played with played support mains. A lot of it always had to do with some guy getting them into…

Well for once I am glad I grew up in rural Georgia. Some real genius level assholes once built and bought in a development next to the local drag strip hoping to cash in on a short ride to a major city. When the judge told them its your fault for building next to a race track I would have loved to see their faces as…

Wow Awesome. I know where one of these is in a local salvage yard Tried to buy it when I was in college but the guy wanted 4k for it. Looks like the pictured one. Can’t wait to read about this project.

Ford’s modern Model T?

Gonna provide the counter point here: Cup holders are great, but there’s something strangely cathartic about an older car that has no cell phone storage, 12v jack, aux port, or cup holder. You get in it and you drive it and only drive it. You get out and have a drink...in a cool way it presents a nice opportunity to…