Same context? The switch from air to water cooling? Hated by the “all-knowing customer base” even though it’s a technically better vehicle? Closest analog - the Harley Davidson V-Rod.

Rolls-Royce Corniche Fixed Head Coupe, preferably in Mason’s Black. Saw it as a kid in Steve McQueen’s bank caper Thomas Crown Affair. Nothing like that POV shot of the Spirit of Ecstasy leading the way down the Mass Turnpike.

Jack Webb would have never gone for this CF.

Insofar as “elegant” is concerned, nothing tops the original: 280SE 3.5 coupe. Everything thereafter has been a slow, gradual descent into obesity. And that’s coming from a guy with a W216.M156.

Yeah, sorry, meant that for Ralph.

Having seen it first-run in a theater, you’ll never get it. Everybody’s head was bopping up and down on the hill sequence. It was amazing.

The only “real” AMG was the M156/M159 6.3 normally aspirated V-8. Designed by and for AMG. Everything else is a derivation of a stock MB engine. Correct me if I’m wrong.

Again, these are depreciation/amortization of sunk up-front exploration and drilling costs. Every company, partnership, and individual, running a business in the U.S. avails themselves to these write-offs.

Name them. I dare you. And please don’t list “depletion allowance” as a subsidy.

Rotors pivot forward and lift is derived from a wing, meaning higher cruise speeds and better fuel consumption. The joke with this Uber plane is that cranked wing makes a cross-shaft impossible. The entire concept is a poorly thought-out joke.

Sheesh. Version 18 of the downtown-to-downtown shuttle that’s always just around the corner.. Closest anybody’s come has been Bell and Agusta with the BA609 tiltrotor, a technology outgrowth of the original XV-15 and V-22 programs.

That’s nothing. Google Damascus Titan. Thank God we don’t use liquid fuels for our ICBMs anymore.

It’s for an A319/320, but Airbus says:

I was only kidding about “reverse thrust”, but the Pilatus Porter does allow “beta” inflight, which is unusual. Beta is essentially zero thrust with a very flat propeller disc. Lots of drag provides a nearly straight-down nose angle.

Inflight reverse thrust:

That was a terrible landing on the part of the pilot. Either the demonstrated crosswind component was exceeded (a no-no) or his/her technique sucks. Crab down to the runway, kick out the crab, bank upwind and touch down with zero drift on the upwind gear first. All I saw was a shitty crab all the way down. And yes,…

Well, velour was/is considered a step up from plain leather:

Modern Jets? Hell, the 1969 747 had a Mmo of .92 and routinely cruised at .85. Everybody gushes about the Concorde, but the 747 was only recently surpassed in cruise and top speed by the 787.

BMW E31 for the same price? Eh?

Price a used AMG lately? Dirt cheap.