And yet the US managed to screw up a common platform multi-vehicle development before. Read about Future Combat System, which was more ambitious than just vehicles, but they couldn't even get the vehicles right.

I got stopped for doing 104 in a 65. I have no way of knowing if that was right because the speedometer only went up to 85 and it was clicking on the peg. Anyway, the officer wrote me for doing 89 (24 over) so it would just be a normal ticket. You bet your ass I paid the ticket.