And? Most turbine engines can run on biofuel if you throw a similar (and relatively small) amount of cash at the project. You know that. "5x more efficient than the F-35" may well be true, but misleading; it's like saying that a chainsaw is 5x better at cracking nuts than a steamroller. Sometimes you just need a…

I appreciate the shift back towards close air support, away from ultra-expensive supersonic stealth whizz-bang gadgets, but:

The A-10 is still not the perfect tool for that job. The A-10 is a cold-war design; a flying anti-tank gun. Modern conflicts do not involve thousands of T-90 tanks pouring through the Fulda Gap,…

Good point. Anything is better than Lucas switchgear.

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It's no coincidence that this was posted next to a Peel P50 story.

I went to a car show some time around 1999. Of course the stands had minders who kept out the riff-raff, especially the teenagers and their sticky fingerprints. However, I'd dressed up smartly, and had a chance to fondle all kinds of cool cars which I wouldn't be able to afford until I got a better job. I very nearly…

Many Indian military procurement projects have gigantic time & cost overruns - including the attempts to build equipment locally instead of importing.

There's plenty of blame to go round; the Russians don't need all of it.

The databases of salvaged/written off cars tend to be run by governments. Hence their visibility is limited beyond state/national borders.

A rebuilt car will usually be cheaper locally because of this stain on its record, making it a great candidate for export to another country ... same as with stolen cars.

My…

There are buyers at every point on the price curve.

Your spaceship awaits!

Lancia was the master of bizarre-concept-cockpits:

theodric is wise.

I fall in love with cheap old luxury cars. I fall in love, and then they break my heart. But it's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

And, to be honest, no matter how much you spend maintaining an old Mercedes CL65, it's still far less than you'd lose to depreciation with a new CL65.

You…

OK, good point. Swagger!

Crack pipe. A couple of months ago I saw a Turbo R (in a much nicer green hue) sell for well under 10k at another auction, coincidentally near this one, and the condition was ok.

It's not going to be some museum-grade classic; it's still basically a modern luxury car which has depreciated and gone out of date. Daily…

Bear in mind that this auction isn't actually held at Silverstone; it's at the NEC, about 1 hour drive away.

I was planning to drop in to the viewing next Friday; have got my eye on something else cool...

Capping prices is a very efficient way of causing a shortage of scarce goods and services.

It's not so good at reducing prices. Unless walking-home-because-nobody-will-give-me-a-ride counts as free transport.

Consumer wants scarce service, consumer surprised that service was expensive, consumer outrage. Obviously Uber is the bad guy and she's the smart one.

Not coincidentally, most of my scariest driving moments happened in Africa. :-)