So, its not the size of your plow, its how you use it?

Oh, I meant more for the comments, but sounds good :D

I drove one of those the other day, a V6. It was a joy to drive a compact truck again, and it seemed pretty nice.

People typically buy small crossovers because they offer extra room, a taller ride height, and often all-wheel drive over small sedans and hatches. Driving dynamics aren't usually a priority. So how do you explain the Audi RS Q3?

It's an engineering challenge, sure, but a lack of engineering skill or imagination isn't the reason Martin Baker ejection seats and parachutes aren't used in commercial airliners: it's money. Specifically, liability and the cost of installing them.

Can [commercial] flying get safer than it already is?

Chalk up another vote for the 3800 Series II, for all the reasons discussed above.

Yes, I seem to recall reading an article in Car & Nature about this particular mating ritual. Fascinating stuff!

Yea, about that yellow police car that looks like a taxi?

"What kind of car do you drive?"

"An Up."

I may be off base on this, but I thought I read somewhere that two different parts of the brain process words vs pictures, and one - pictures - is faster than the other. Picture tells a thousand words, and all that.

"For example, I wasn’t aware that in Canada the Official Languages Act makes alignment of US and Canadian safety standards for “controls and displays” very difficult because of the use of pictograms."

"Honda Accord: Includes a new, voice-activated response system that assures the driver he or she made a reasonable choice at a decent price."

This....is a Kia?

Quite a facelift. Very slick.

Welcome, enjoy! It's on my shelf and I've re-read it a couple times. If our national leaders could read but one history book, I might actually point them at this one.

Read "The March of Folly" by one of the best historians ever, the Pulitzer-winning American writer, Barbara Tuchman. In each case she writes about, especially in Vietnam, the problem gov'ts faced wasn't a lack of info. They had it: they just chose not to act on it. The blurb:

Oh I'm sure they did pass that intel along - time and again, field level officers make certain warnings, and these are duly filed away and forgotten, until some reporter or historian finds it and goes, wtf!

An important distinction should be made between the British concentration camps of the Boer War and the Nazi concentration camps: the British didn't want to exterminate the Boers: just subjugate them, as they had many other places and peoples by 1900.