Once again only a few American cars on a top 20 list. How do they ever hope to come back from the grave with poor showings like this?

@elargentino: Basically even planes like the F-35 and F-22 have so many sensors that they currently can not transmit all of their data to any existing network. That is why you are seeing them experiment with using the AESA radar to transmit large amounts of data to another platform. The problem is that the radar…

@decrescendo: The F-22's radar is better for its air-to-air role. The AN/APG-77 on the F-22 and the AN/APG-81 on the F-35 are very similar and many of the advances for the F-35 will eventually be brought over to the F-22, mostly the ground mapping ability. At that point the F-22's larger and more powerful radar with…

@elargentino: Where exactly is all of this bandwith going to come from for all of this information?

@wall-e: Umm, GPS gives you your 4D position; latitude, longitude, altitude, and time.

@blondnga: Somebody needs a hug.

@evoCS-Hench-Minion at Dr. Danger's Center of Calamitous Int...: Except the refineries in the US are not set up to produce the large amounts of diesel required if there was a massive move to diesel powered cars. The refineries are optimized for gasoline and would require large changes to produce more diesel. Of…

@Tysto: I think GM has a pretty good handle on the vette's market. I mean it has only been in production over 50 years. In the 90s many japanese manufactures crept into the vettes market, 300ZX, 3000GT, RX-7, and Supra. Really the only other car that hangs in the same sort of 50k ish sports car market is the…

@Mad_Science: The way I understand it, it is similar to you owning stock in a company. If that company goes bankrupt, the worst that happens is you lose all of your stock, it is not like the creditors start tracking down all the stockholders of the company and saying that they are owed money.

Nice price of course. I mean the radiator brackets are polished, that is at least worth 10k. It also has a "Camshaft intake" and a "Camshaft Exhaust". I did not even know camshafts needed and intake, but if they did they would need an exhaust, so good thing this car has them.

@mr_dude: Actuatlly the diffuser is already considered bodywork. Infact the rules are pretty good at covering most of this stuff. Most of it is covered by specifying minimum radii for certain parts of the car.

@Alex Rossbach: May I ask what F1 technology?

@FЯeeMan has given up on an edit function, just wants previe...: I would be the real work is going to be a re-design of the gearbox. I would bet that Brawn and the other similar diffuser teams have gearboxes designed for this diffuser. The bigger you make these secondary channels above the diffuser, the better. So…

@vwminispeedster, pronounded Si-trow-in: Because Brawn believes in Freedom!

@e30m3: Because the racing would be 1) Dangerous and 2) the racing would be pretty bad.

@smalleyxb122: I had a thermo prof in college that I at first did not like. One of the reasons was that he seemed like a total hippy. That was until he started to talk about the research he did during his Phd.

@greimel: You are correct about the carbon-carbon composite, but the black tiles on the space shuttle are a silica based ceramic. The leading edges of the wings are carbon-carbon. The carbon-carbon composite can handle higher temperatures than the tiles, but is heavier, so it is only used where it is needed.

@sos10:

Was Megan Fox not available?

Just wait till the 60k mile service interval. That is when you need to replace all of the brake hoses and the spark plugs.