You’ll want IL-2: Battle of Stalingrad for that. Has a Battle of Moscow expansion and just got the Battle of Kuban expansion. Both add a new map and additional aircraft.

IL2:CoD is very much a sim. If you wish, there is a very in-depth engine management mode where you’ll need to keep track of fuel mixture, prop pitch, radiator intake and the like. Some of the British aircraft with early carburetors on the Merlins will briefly cut out when subjected to negative-Gs, as in real life.

Sounds like a guy I knew who drove a whorehouse red ‘79 Mark V (hooptie class: self-changing oil and moss growing on parcel shelf). Never could figure out who generated more smoke, him or the car. Together they were a rolling fogbank.

Technically the bastard thing isn’t lost, it’s still in the car. I just haven’t figured out what void opened to swallow it in the engine bay.

I’ll make no apologies for automotive jargon, there’s too many things for everything to be called thingamabobs and whatsits. It can be esoteric, but one ought to know their turboentabulator from their velocimatrix lest Shady Larry at Grift’n’Lube pull a fast one on you.

For the average bear, any tan or olive drab box on tracks or big wheels is a tank.

I’m younger but had similar experiences being the oldest of three. Couldn’t watch Cartoon Network (but Nickelodeon was permitted oddly, and grandpa let us watch just about whatever we wanted); had my Harry Potter books taken because ‘witchcraft’; couldn’t watch PG-13 movies or play t-rated games until I was 13-14…

I HIGHLY doubt he butcher a real GT-40 for this, given the scarcity and cost. Relax, you’ll live longer.

Reading comprehesion is your friend:

It’s not like the car is broadcasting its speed to police. Most if not all new and recent cars have some form of a black box to record data in the event of an accident, specifically things like speed, brake input, seatbelt use, airbag deployment, etc. They can be very useful in accident reconstruction.

There’s also another hybrid snowmobile/Miata; Balto the 2-stroke 700cc Miata!

It is getting stupid, I remember when my dad bought his last truck (3/4 ton) in ‘08 he paid about $28k (extended cab, 4x4, towing package, folding tonneau cover, etc). He’s not getting another because the same options run above $40k, not counting dealer markup and it’s not like his income went up an equivalent amount.

Not quite, it was used in the M4A4 which went via Lend-Lease to the British in some numbers, who called it the Sherman V. I’ve read a couple anecdotes (see: ‘The Black Bull: Normandy to the Baltic with the 11th Armoured Division” by Patrick Delaforce) that while not quite as reliable as other powerplants…

That green CJ3 looks awfully low on actual Jeep content, too much [hole] and various flavors of oxide, but everyone’s got their vices. I’ve been told of a Citroen Ami parked in a barn since the ‘70s up north and hear the siren call, but one could imagine what being parked on a dirt floor for four decades of Michigan…

For some, the internet is the last refuge after they’ve destroyed every other social connection. Like that guy.

I seem to recall a pattern of stealing, crashing, and stealing another of the smaller hoverbikes to beat this. I remember similar vehicular BS in Jak III with the buggies, though this isn’t to say I don’t recall these games fondly.

Heck, just reading an average Steam discussion thread is enough. All the stupidity and entitlement blows the ‘PC master race’ stuff to dust.

Metro Detroit area.

I wish I could find the news article from a few years back about a crash on the east side caused by a guy knowingly driving a pickup with no working brakes and was pulled out of the cab when he tried to stop Flintstone-style.