...I really don't think the V-22 sweet spot is special forces. And I think the next gen rotorcraft competition wouldn't be the same if the V-22 was condemned to failure two decades ago. I just don't see the massive body count and awful record with them that you do, I guess. Every platform's risk has to be weighed…

This must happen so often that there are pretty much no Ospreys left, right? Sarcasm aside, it's a horrific image to think about, but that doesn't make it any different than development accidents with other aircraft. Just because a certain type of failure is less recoverable compared to other aircraft doesn't mean…

A modular shit sandwich is still, at its core, a shit sandwich.

The 2016 Acura NSX! We really, really, really, really, REALLY mean it this time guys! For sure! Probably!

I hope the F-35 cancellation mob seems as ridiculous in 10 years as the V-22 cancellation mob did, too.

I do hope it turns out to be so for the F-35. The LCS, I don't see many redeeming factors or game-changing warfighting innovations that could 'save' it, unlike the JSF program goals.

I think the hubbub over the safety of these things is completely overblown. It's a new type of aircraft with all new capabilities, and it is on-par with the safety records of legacy aircraft that have been in our inventory for decades. To pooh-pooh this craft to death is really shortsighted, and it discourages…

At a CT DMV, you'd chisel out your own special place in hell. These people have enough trouble registering trailers. Do something out of the norm, and they look at you as if you've grown 3 heads, ask you to lower your voice even if you haven't raised it, and slowly reach for the panic button under the counter. While…

Must use lots of Magnesium

I don't understand. 800 backers x $30 shipping per backer is $24,000 they'd have to eat for shipping. Even assuming all international shipping, that's still only $56,000. So how is that the only problem, yet it is supposed to be accounting for a $400,000 miscalculation?

It is an EXCELLENT winter car. 50/50 weight distribution really helps. I ran mine through two New England winters on shitty summer performance tires and, though it made for some white knuckle driving, never got stuck!

That scale engine will live past the apocalypse, just like its bigger brothers.

That, and the headlights seemed to be yellowed a few days after they left the factory. And it eats mechanical parts faster than Rosie O'Donnell downs a box of Captain Crunch. And the fact that the first time a PT owner opened their hood, they realized how well and truly at the mercy of the cruel gods they were.…

I have a friend who has a PT Cruiser. I do not allow it in the yard anymore after it has broken down twice and forced me to fix it right there to make it go away. My opinion of the PT Cruiser, SSR, and HHR are that they were made for people that really hate themselves and would like to wake up every morning and ask…

They killed the HHR in a desperate attempt to find out why every single one of their design engineers were trying to scoop out their eyeballs with sharpened spoons.

*goes back to angrily eating organic gluten free bran and checking how much electricity his solar panels have put back into the grid this morning*

4) Giant bird on the hood

You can thank Toyota and Subaru for killing dreams of #5 by letting the BRZ/FR-S wither on the vine after launch, and subsequently convincing squeamish bean counters at other companies that their failure was a lack of demand.

It doesn't help that if you aren't a hardcore fan, the thing looks like a rental car or an unmarked taxi when it passes you on the road...

It doesn't help that if you aren't a hardcore fan, the thing looks like a rental car or an unmarked taxi when it passes you on the road...