ChrisFu

1/23/15

Acura still sells the TSX wagon, for a few more months until they sell out, at least.

1/23/15

Shocker that a guy who drives an RS5 would say that about an A5.

I am not sure exactly what he expected from a heavy GT coupe. More importantly, I dont see what the A5 "promised" in any regard, especially considering you can buy an S5 and RS5 instead if he is thinking about performance.

1/21/15

Tyler, your "friends over at War is Boring" is none other than staunch V-22 basher David Axe. Using his personal blog, or any of his "contributions" to Wired on the subject of the Osprey is akin to quoting Rush Limbaugh on the merits of Barack Obama.

1/19/15

Nope. Still ugly.

1/19/15

This is common in almost every single performance car that offers an AWD option. When the ATS was announced with a manual, I called they would omit the 6 speed from the AWD version, which of course was the case.

I jumped on my B8.5 A5 because it was only one of 2 US market AWD, manual, coupes...and all rumors point to…

1/16/15

I was being rhetorical.

I have design experience on the HH-60 series, the proposed HH-92, V-22, and did competitive analysis on the defunct HH-47.

Your implied definition of "survivability" does not pass muster. It is the combination of vulnerability, susceptibility, and crashworthiness. Specifically with regards to…

1/15/15

It wasn't, because its not.

1/15/15

Flight hours of V-22 in service = 250,000+

1/15/15

Remind me which CSAR helicopters are armored?

1/15/15

What makes the V-22 a death trap? Is the CH-53 a death trap? It has killed literally over 100 times as many people in accidents in its lifetime, and has a worse lifetime mishap rate. Or another high performance vertical lift asset, AV-8B?

Sheesh, enough of the "death trap" bullshit already.

1/15/15

1/14/15

You gotta hand it to these guys spinning this, the second crash of this helicopter, as some sort of testament to the monocoque fuselage (and subsequently also admitting that they would be adding a second swashplate drive link even though it was deemed not initially necessary). All we have are views of the incident…

1/14/15

Minimalism sucks.

1/13/15

Uhh this sounds like a recycled story from 2 years ago. Audi did an "emergency redesign" on the new Q7 in 2013 which was scrapped because they internally determined it was "too brutal and ostentatious" and rumor was it was a factor in Wolfgang Dürheimer's demise.

Now this revision is being called "brutal" and its…

1/12/15

Manual option or fuhgettaboutit

1/8/15

You forgot to mention what they did to their website.

I wont buy a VW on principle now that I cant actually research and configure a car on the manufacturer website, since I always build to order. Fucking ridiculous.

1/8/15

Return of the Leggy Outback sedan!!!

1/6/15

I cant imagine there's that much of a market left for high end head units, as almost all modern cars have eschewed DIN compatibility for proprietary integrated audio/HVAC systems.

12/15/14

Nope, nope, stop it, stop it. This thread has gotten entirely too silly, and I haven't had a funny comment yet.

12/15/14

It got the subtlety of knowing which actual topics were relevant to be discussed in the script, only to completely shit the bed on the details.

In 1995 laypeople's web and computer knowledge was infant, so it seems they felt it was sufficient to merely toss out relevant buzzwords en masse.

Just recall the entire scene…