It pains me to see my favorite car in the entire world be sold and I can’t even bid on it.

I’ve never understood the hate for it. I think it is a lovely compact shooting brake. Sits nicely in the smaller end of a line up of wagons, what is not to like?

I’ll be that guy. The 480 is a good looking car that gets a lot of undeserved hate. I’ve always loved the lines. Anytime I see one from behind the wheel (of my Nissan Versa) I think there’s a project car I’d like to have.

You also suck at aerodynamics because all you did was look at the Cd and totally ignored frontal area. Drag has two components. Cd is one, frontal area is the other.

The decision to switch focus from bombing airfields to bombing cities played a major role in the outcome, no doubt. But, even if the Germans had won the air war, that was still only the first phase of an invasion campaign.

This is what drives me nuts. WW2 was a true world war and one that succeeded by not 1 country alone but by many brothers in arms for all different countries fighting with each other as one. If you talked to those that fought during that time, they wouldn’t be taking credit but thanking the help of their allies. My…

Many Americans will agree that the education system in the U.S. is somewhat stunted.

ORLY?? More British & Commonwealth troops landed on D-Day than Americans. This is exactly the kind of shit that winds Britons up when Americans talk about WW2.

A distant uncle-in-law was an executive for Hallmark Cards, and told this story. Their engineers came to his office to show him a prototype of a music chip for greeting cards; it played “Happy Birthday” in little beeps. He invited them out to lunch to celebrate and they went in his new Cadillac.

Front-Mid is certainly a thing. I want to see a Mid-Mid, though. The engine would be whirring away right beside the front seats’ occupants’ buttocks.

I see the face of an R33 GTR in it.

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I think this an extraordinarily written summary of the brand, and I loved how you charted its progress via something as unique as the advertising. Mid-2000s Volvos do really make you shake your head and wonder where their vintage pragmatic ethos went to, and it’s fascinating how you tied that in to their Ford-induced…

The driver still has to assume responsibility for what the car is doing at all times regardless of the naming convention of the system. The system warned him numerous times that it could not handle the situation safely but he apparently ignored it. Personally, if I were Tesla I would program the system to disengage…

This wasn’t the only Soviet self-built/home-built sports car. There were several, going back as far as the 1930s.

People fear things they don’t understand. A lot of built in safety features and lockouts are incorporated into electric cars. When first responders show up, they will disable high voltage by cutting a circuit that supplies power to the high voltage relays, or pull a service disconnect. Some manufacturers call these…

Whataboutism is a propaganda technique first used by the Soviet Union, in its dealings with the Western world.^[1] When Cold War criticisms were levelled at the Soviet Union, the response would be “What about...” followed by the naming of an event in the Western world.^[2][3] It represents a case of tu quoque (appeal…

C’mon, that warhead can’t be much bigger than a womp rat....

I know this sounds bad, but I’ve always found the shapes and colors these large bomb detonations make to be quite beautiful. Kind of in the same way that some people find tornadoes beautiful.

I always thought the C-pillar was really ugly and ruined the rest of the car.