I own a 2014 LT2 with the normally aspirated 2.5 and stop/start function. I tested the Camry and Accord. The Camry drives very dull and I can’t get over its vagina style grill. Its steering is too light and numb. The Accord Sport has an unusually harsh ride, especially for NJ roads. The interior is just too bizarre.…

These are actually fun drivers in LTZ/Turbo form. They have at least as much character as a Camry or Accord, and are nicer on the highway. Never really understood why these get such bad press.

I guess I don’t understand what our endgame in Syria is. Let’s say Assad gets assassinated tomorrow and his decapitated regime crumbles overnight.

Putin is helping a dictator that at least keeps the place together - kind of like what Saddam did in Iraq and what Qadaffi did in Libya. Obama is helping the people that took over after Saddam and after Qadaffi. We can see how well that went - I mean Libya is a shinning example of what happens when you let “moderate…

Russia was invited by the recognized government of Syria. Russia has a naval base in Syria as well. Obama defied the will of the american people and got involved in another foreign conflict. It is this involvement that prevented the government of Syria putting an end to the fighting.

Can confirm, the majority of the “moderate” anti Assad folks hate us just as much as everyone else in that region does. In many cases they hate us more than they hate Daesh, but put on a big ol’ smile for the congressman who is bankrolling and arming them. They’ll tell us whatever we want to hear if they think it’ll…

Fucking idiotic... did US learn nothing from arming mujaheddin in Afghanistan in the 80’s, only to fight them later? Or helping “moderate” Libyan rebels and fighting Qaddafi? Or getting rid of Saddam, disbanding Baath party and Iraqi army - which are now a large chunk of ISIS? Who are these idiots that make these…

I hope it comes stateside but I doubt it will or at least in this configuration. A cheap manual only car won’t sell well. It’s a Toyota and will probably be branded Scion of it came this way. Scion is not a company like Porsche or Ferrari that can say “it’s manual only and you’ll buy it and like it even if you don’t”.

Tyler. I listen to you religiously on John Batchelor and am thankful for your articles. I must add to the discussion an observation of mine. When we invaded Iraq and ousted Saddam and the Baath party, we elevated the Shiite population, organized their government and their armed forces. As a HUGE point of irony, in…

You may take our salads, but you’ll have my buffalo wings when you pry them from my cold dead fat hands.

PUTIN could seize this opportunity to plant his seeds of influence and his crop will be bountiful. This is not a good scenario. The US cannot allow Russia to Proxy every country it wants (yes the US is guilty of this too *cough* Iraq *cough*). The US has sullied its reputation (prior and after 9/11) in that region and…

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That doesn’t matter because the Gulf states and Turkey will make hundreds of billions each year selling gas to Europe, once Syria is destroyed, Assad killed, and the new pipelines get built through the remnants of Syria.

Assad is the last vanguard of secularism in the Middle East and yet again the U.S. is serving as the water boy for the Gulf States to topple him. Should that happen, nothing will stop extremists from unleashing a wave of ignorance, treachery, bloodshed, murder and all other things that we fear.