Base is looking better to my eyes, but those headlights are still ugly. I think they'll have their shape changed come the first facelift, just like the Jaguar HF and second gen 1 series hatch did.

Crikey it even has a 'hoffmeister' kick. I don't like it, Alfas should be beautiful in my opinion, not aggressive. I hope that the lesser versions will have less vents all around and a touch more chrome. I know they weren't brilliant cars but I think visually, the 159 and later 156s are miles better looking than this.

As I read I was like smokers car nope, chrome tape nope, needs engine and brake work (maybe) and then I saw that rear 3/4 bustle and I was all yes. I love the colour and the 'platinum' carpet too. Having said that I have a really strange fascination with malaise-era yank tanks, because they look so cool but are so…

They should bring back divebombing for when all this stuff gets jammed

This might seem a dumb question, but can various ISTAR platforms like Raytheons Sentinel or those Beechcraft King Airs with all those aeriels sticking out provide targeting information and designation or do they just provide a picture and or sigint? Because I imagine in scenarios when the airspace is secured and the…

See, I see videos like this and it makes me want an Evo 10

What saddens me is that the people who made these probably have the skill to do what I’m sure many of us here dream of, which is design and manufacture our own supercar.

Correction: A gentleman in Ireland who spent 30 years building a Bede BD-5, the popular prop-version of the kit plane that was featured in jet form in Octopussy, has died displaying it an an airshow

Also, I’d still have the Atom, but, perfect 2 car garage? Yeti and an Atom?

My older brother would say “Fucked on”

The TVR Tuscan Speed Six is up there with my favourite cars of all time, but I think in this day and age, I would want the following safety features: Drivers and passengers airbags, switchable stability and traction control and abs brakes. My own car (I just found out when checking for a blown abs fuse - not feaured…

Watching this vid and seeing the timing gear. Whoa. I used to work on Volvo trucks and there is like 11 gears to muck around with when you do the timing. OHV for the win

I’m totally that Accord driver. My depth perception when parallel parking my small Mazda 323 is terrible - I sweat getting out and then see I have over a metre of space left. Weirdly, I had no trouble parking Long trucks (Prime Movers without their trailers and long 8x4 flatbed Volvo FMs etc) in the bays at work when…

Oh I also had some dririder summer gloves on in the second crash, the peeled away at the palm. I didn’t get scraped but I’ll stick with the rsts which barely got scuffed on the first crash.

Bell Helmet, RST textile jacket, RST leather gloves, Berik boots and Draggin Jeans. The Jackets gloves, boots and Draggins survived to crashes but the zip didn’t on the second one so I now have some Sartso jeans which I’m not really planning on testing. Only thing I wish I had was some more armor, as I broke my arm…

I would get a base, 7 speed manual Corvette. For some reason I like high end sportscars as basic as possible. If the argument were C6 vs 997 though I’d go the Porsche.

Given it is not just US firms developing unmanned combat vehicles (see Dassault Neuron and others) and other countries don’t have the same limitations on arms exports I think it’s very likely that F-35 will be up against stealthy adverseries within the next couple of decades

One more place to visit on flight simulator

Within visual range combat, and especially energy management, I believe, will become relevant to the F-35s mission assuming the aircraft will still be operating over the next 25 or so years. Why? Because other countries will also have aircraft that are hard to see on radar, manned or otherwise as part of their…

Aside from for marketing purposes, why does a hillclimb need a pace car? I note it’s not called a course recce car, but ‘pace’ car. I like the new NSX but there is no reason it needs to be there if it isn’t competing.