When I watched “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” in the theater (yes, I’m that old!) and the scene with Marcus Brody bumbling along on the Bazaar came up, I actually started from my seat, because the arabian flute (or whatever) playing in the background hit the exact same note as our door chime. Got some confused…

In Soviet Russia, YOU damage foreign objects!

Oh, no, you don’t! The Crafter is a badge-engineered Mercedes-Benz Sprinter with basically a new fascia and that’s it. The downside of the deal: While Mercedes has kept the Sprinter up-to-date with little facelifts and the likes, the unloved Crafter is stuck in 2006, when it was released.

Both?

Reminds me of the Bell Aurens Longnose Defender:

Germany should have bought a handful as a stop-gap and later assistance to the horribly delayed and not quite matured A400M Grizzly Atlas. It's a shame how the German Air Force personnel has to cut corners and improvise to keep the ancient C-160 Transall flying.

Get a electronic Sureflap or Smartflap. They communicate with implanted RFID-chips or RFID-Tags for animal collars and open only for registered pets. In our case it is combined with a timer, making sure the cats stay indoors at night.

Exactly that is not the point. Imagine your grandfather (or great-grandfather) loves to do cross country running. He's old but he's fit and he has done it for years with pride and joy. Would you stick him in a retirement home to wither away on a steady diet of Bingo and Matlock just because he's old? Just because…

As cool as the styling was, the strange "Dual Pump"-4WD was horrible. We referred to it as "virtual 4WD" because it couldn't really drive the rear wheels to save its live...

I wouldn't call the CLA "Shooting Brake" a proper wagon...

Hm, why did they "photoshop" the father out of the picture? To raise awareness for kids without right hands?

Just being round and approximately 7" in diameter does not make them sealed beam. Most likely they are run-of-the-mill 7"-inserts with exchangeable H4-bulbs, as they are used in the rest of the world.

Just being a little nitpicky: It's either "Söring" or "Soering". When a font or a keyboard does not feature our fancy röck döts, vee Germans have to revert to adding an "e" to the Umlaut, thus making an "ä" to "ae", "ü" to "ue" and "ö" to "oe" (just as they were written before someone thought up this funny little…

Preparation for the modification of the next VC-25 (or whatever its designation will be) from stock Boeing to presidential aircraft?

The most plentiful cars by far were army surplus Kubelwagens — the VW KdF -based wartime jeep-like vehicle. For non-Beetle geeks, "KdF" was the German acronym for "Strength-through-Joy," the ridiculous original name for the Beetle. These Kubelwagens were known for having good, rugged drivetrains and suspensions, and…

The Glomar Explorer?
Built by the old nutcase Howard Hughes from 1971 on to secretly recover the remnants of the Soviet sub K-129 which sunk in 1968. The whole operation was disguised as a deep sea drilling expedition for manganese nodules. They actually managed to raise the bow section of K-129.

Concerning radial engines, you also have to check this out:

Door Mirrors? Where we're going, we don't need door mirrors!

Not quite right...

Well, printing them out "full size" would be a little bit too small...