No worries. Mexico will pay for it.

That has been Oshkosh Defenses’ standard operating procedure; promise the DoD they’ll meet specs for the lowest price with short lead times, but then fail and ask for additional contracts ($$$$) to “improve” the product.

So your time is worth no more than $13.33/hour?  That’s “not cool”.

Why are the electronic rotary gear selectors a design trend? And why do they (or column selectors like the Mercedes C63) get a pass here? I was subjected to one for a few days in a Ford (Fusion?) rental recently. Pure garbage. Parking shouldn’t be so difficult or dangerous.

What’s, the, point?

Let me guess, the rider will be subjected to 30 second ads before the taxi leaves the pickup point or unlocks the doors at drop-off.

A V-6 isn’t a real AMG.

Still own an ‘05 GTO though it’s not a DD. Never had interior issues other than the rear seat headrest stitching. Upholstery shop fixed them for ~$75 and then I finally got the windows tinted. The headliner is just starting to show signs that it’s giving up.

No, that was designed as a MBT and weighs 140,000 lb; twice the mass of the M2A4 Bradley. I suspect it has an extremely limited fuel range as well with it’s V-12 diesel engine.

“We”?

There is no “chassis”.  And do you honestly believe that the Griffin will be tangibly lighter than an M2A3 Bradley by the time it reaches full-rate production?

That’s 1/3 of the vehicles on the road in Arizona during the winter. The most dumb is the $250k RV towing a full-size truck with an ATV strapped in the bed (tailgate open). Stay away from Quartzsite, AZ during January.

Surprised? Then you’ve never been to Arizona or Florida during the winter where 200,000+ snowbirds travel. Typical RV is worth $200k and towing a late model SUV. The only surprise is that most of the snowbirds are cheap bastards.

That’s what the HUD option is for. I look at an instrument panel just a few times a week in my 15 yr-old daily driver and my Vette because of it.

With the General Dynamics entry only having token competition, it seems all but guaranteed that the Army will pay them twice for a light tank...

You’re not getting an up-armored M2A4 Bradley with a 120 mm gun under 40 tons. Besides, BAE submitted a proposal based on an iteration of the M8 AGS they prototyped for the Army in the early 1990s.

The MPF is not a main battle tank. The original goal is clear; deploy with the 82nd and 101st airborne divisions to provide mobile protected firepower presumably behind enemy lines. The target GVW is defined in the performance specification.

No it doesn’t. The latest Bradley IFV is pushing 40 tons w/o a 120mm gun. It also has unnecessary occupant/crew space for the MPF program.

Don’t tell me that it takes too long to develop any new weapons systems because of course it does but that’s mostly due to bureaucracy than it does with meeting a demand.

“Partial buys” is a misnomer. DoD vehicle contracts are usually awarded in phases. The headlines may read “Company X won the JLTV contract for 3000 production vehicles” when in reality they sign a contract with the Army for 100 vehicles, then a contract for 300 vehicles, then a contract for 75 vehicles, etc. At some…