I think we can safely assume who built ‘em

Do you have to be rich to have shares in a company? Are you rich if you have a 401k?

the entire Mercedes dealership network has to be trained and educated on over 100 different cars

Sounds like you’re a pretty shitty husband to suggest doing that. That said, it’s pretty clear that I was referring to people who didn’t have, you know, actual health issues.

For the record, my wife had the similar issues after our second child and still drove her manual Cayenne daily ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Amen, anyone who complains about driving a manual from the last decade in traffic is just being a crybaby.

Holy Crap, Daniel Stern! He was one of the OG dudes fighting the good fight against all those mid ‘00s super blue HID retrofits. I cant remember how many dozens of times I would have to link to his website articles trying to sway friends away from that garbage on NASIOC. I bought multiple bulbs directly from him when…

There hasn’t been a “2D+” version of CATIA since V3 (arguably it’s full 3D as well) and V3 was dead long before the A380 was even a concept.

If anything, this was an issue with V4 and V5 wire routing workbenches, but had nothing to do with 2D vs 3D

But if you’re worried that the new 4 Series grille signals the direction all other BMW vehicle designs will soon follow, you don’t have to worry just yet.

Literally the only reason your brain is saying “its not so bad” is because this is the first time you’ve seen this grille with a euro plate sitting there imitating where the bumper should have bisected it to begin with.

I had one of those 3.7 manuals. I do miss that truck, especially after putting in 2012 seats.

The irony is that pressing the Turbo button on a PC actually decreases the speed of the CPU for compatibility reasons, usually by about half.

Its amusing that you paid 1/4 the price of the car to get its VIN history.

That was a very long article explaining the very widely understood and accepted Vehicular Arms Race.

Technically the V-22 rotor is aerodynamically capable of autorotation (it’s actually practiced in the sim and was tested at altitude over a decade before deployment). That was my statement - no comments on it being a consistent, preferred, or objectively safe method of recovery. Having a wing, cross shafting, and…

Technically this is not true, though due to its high disc loading the RoD required for a full autorotation to ground would be pants-staining and difficult for a pilot to pull off.

In general, there is a wide misconception that tiltrotors in general cannot autorotate, which is just plain false. The AW609 has already…

A single compressor stall in one of the 10 engines (particularly one of the 8 outboard engines) is likely to be a nonevent.

In modern test aircraft we typically use a relatively standardized YAPS mounted at the end of a boom to get it away from fuselage or download effects.

Lest we forget what is coming on the M3 & M4 - this looks like the Mona Lisa

This is what it looked like right before I had my first kiddo. That seat is max forward and max upright.

Cant tell if the coupe comment was sarcasm...we only got the coupe A5 in the US for it’s first 10 years. Once the sportback showed up as the B9 - no more manual.

And regarding legroom for back seats, it’s not even close. I have one rear facing and one forward. The rear facing worked behind the passenger seat at max…