Yeah, I’m a Yankee by birth but it does seem like the US South is one of the few places where you can generalize an entire people and for the most part get away with it without much issue. I’m not one of those PC Policers, but it does smell of double standard.

USS Zumwalt

118 WallyPower - 3 jet engines.

The only reasons are a) if you plan to tune it, the 2.3T is easier to make big horsepower gains with; and b) the Premium trim and all the extra goodies like blind-spot monitoring and adaptive cruise control and whatnot are not available with the V6.

A nuclear reactor.

hhhhnnnnnnnnggggggg

Yeah. Linda Ronstadt. Geez, I'd forgotten about this photo.

I look at it like the floor exercise in gymnastics, the one where they prance around with the pretty ribbons.

This just seems appropriate tonight.

I DD a '10 Fusion Hybrid. I like it too. It's smooth and feels powerful when getting on the interstate. Took a little getting used to though.

Work from home.

I... I agree with you, on a DD. I could even go as far as saying that I like Automatics, and I have an Automatic car. However, my automatic Volvo is my commute cruise missile; shifting while fighting I280 traffic is a PITA. When I actually have a good road, you'll find me in my old STI. ;)

This isn't even close to an around-the-world flight. It's two great circle legs over the north pole. Still pretty impressive, but no where NEAR close to a real ATW flight.

Remove regional emissions restrictions and have one national standard. (I'm looking at you, CARB) Also have one standard for reformulated fuel nationwide.

Something something global standardization of crash, emissions and efficiency standards would reduce federalization costs and would, for example, help manufacturers offer more niche Euro-only models in the USA.

Ummmm - bronze, not brass; copper-tin, not copper-zinc. Brass in salt water becomes a copper sponge in but a few months as the zinc is electrolytically leached out. Many an amateur mariner bought brass fastenings at a hardware store.and found this out the hard way. Bronze muzzle loaders and hand weapons0 have survived…

I will save you all. Believe in me. I'm with the High Command.

I'm sure you're right about fanboys but I'm a fan and also recognize that German engineering is usually overkill and not built for maintenance but some kind of weird empirical perfection. I need a sensor replaced for example, and it costs five hours of labour ($850 plus tax = just under a thousand Canadian bucks!),…

Having owned both, and having friends who have both: