I’m having trouble finding a horsepower figure for the engines that would have been on that beast, but I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that 4 Turbofans generate more thrust than an LS7 could muster ;)

It seems to be missing the thrusty bits... And I don’t mean Elvis’ hips.

Also included: The strange looks you get in the grocery store parking lot when you accidentally buy more groceries than will fit in the trunk and need to put a few things in the front.

I wonder if that frame would fit under my Fairlady shell... hmmmm.

I’d drive that. I wouldn’t own it, but I’d drive it...

This was a state program rather than the federal one. I think it was any car older than 10 or 15 years at the time. It looks like it needs to be failing smog now unless you meet some low-income requirements:

When we bought our Edge, the dealer offered us $400 for the beat-to-shit Civic she was driving at the time. California had a cash-for-clunkers thing going on that would give us $1000. It’s not hard to figure out what we did with it.

I just pointed out that this was more Snow Crash, but you beat me to it by at least a minute...

This is more Snow Crash than anything Gibson wrote. Snow Crash literally starts with a pizza delivery.

Ahh, fair enough, I hadn’t followed the genesis of the regulation but am amused at the fallout from it.

Shots have already been fired at F and GOOG. See GDPR, though that’s not a direct consequence of the recent trade disputes. It’s possibly a reaction to apparent foreign meddling in the US election though.

I’d been driving stick for about 4 years when I first set foot in an automatic. I was familiar with the concept but had never actually driven one. It took me about two blocks to realize that it was stopping harshly (think tires squealing and front bumper dragging across the ground) because my left foot was…

The Tucano is a turboprop at least. I was assuming they’ll need a de-mil’ed plane, and an A-10 would be kinda boring without the gun ;)

I’d forgotten that point. Europe also gets the 695 Biposto though, which sounds properly bonkers:

Isn’t the answer to that a Super Tucano, they’re basically a P-51 for the 21st century...

I think the word for the Abarth would be “Amusing”. The thing was a total go-kart; you could point it in a direction and it’d go there with the boost gauge bouncing off 18-psi. The exhaust made very childish noises. You can put the pedal all the way to the floor no matter where you’re going because it wasn’t really…

Yeah, compared to an Abarth 500 that seems kinda weak. The Abarth makes 160HP, weighs about the same, and runs around screaming. It’s definitely not a car that takes itself seriously. I’d worry that a German answer to it would be too... reasonable.

And they’ll call the 2-row version a Bluebird SSS for good measure.

Success!

Even better if next year’s is a refresh. We got our Edge $8K off (I think it was around 20%) because Ford had just announced the 2015 refresh and the dealer still had like 15-20 2014s on the lot.