Nor I, but we both certainly recognize the actual outcome of a platoon of armed US soldiers confronting a car dealership employee. If anyone here took this as anything other than jest, I have seriously underestimated the intelligence of the average Jalopnik.

Wow, I am impressed with this response. I typically post a well-thought through, and I think, fairly balanced (some cynical humor aside) every day or so regarding sutomotive or aeronautical items of personal interest These usually result in a response or recco or two each.

I guess he should have sent his American soldier friends, suitably equipped, to 'discuss the matter' with the dealership.

Helmet be nice too.

Kailua-Kona, HI, on the Big Island is kinda like that. It's a real town, with an intl. Airport (KOA) and port facilities, but it is pread along the coast for a total length of 18 miles (airport to furthest south resort), and one mile deep. Almost flat, and the highest speed limit until you get north past the sirport…

No! That thing is phuque ugly. The CCV Project is a nicely proportioned homage to the 2CV that takes a sound older idea into the (past) present, and I wish, the future.

Word: quay

Sombody reissue this car with electric so zi can buy one for Kona. Solar panels with fringe edges standard, please.

Please resurrect this as an electric 'neighborhood vehicle'. That will eliminate the federal safety requirements, and I'll figure out how to hack around the 25 mph governor. This would be an almost perfect around-town car for Kona, HI.

We were fly-camping around the western states in our Aeronca Champ back in mid-ninties. One our campgrounds was West Yellowstone airport campground. They had a bear warning sign with a picture of a Beechcraft Bonanza that had literally been torn in half by a bear who smelled food left inside.

Yeayusss, onny in the south does damn have four syllables.

What does work then? I can't see an F-16 doing any better, so is this a mission that can only be handled by rotor wings? They're pretty 'flimsy' by comparison.

Was that because of the aircraft itself, or how it was armed and deployed?

Thanks Tyler. Excellent comprehensive read. As a born and bred Air Force brat I am even more appalled after reading it. We lived in Tucson in the early '80s, and often went to the O-club when my dad was in town. I remember the scorn the F-16 jocks heaped on those "A-10 truck drivers". Had I been suitable for the USAF…

Reading this, and thinking about the conflict environment it is designed for, causes me to question (again) dafuq is the USAF retiring the A-10 Warthog ... aka Thunderbolt II?

Northwest pilots?

Weight, schmeight -the new design language has lost the Mustang identity ... again.

Old planes, if inspected and maintained correctly are as functional as any new plane designed and configured for the mission at hand. That is why the USAF still fly's B-52s, and all services fly C-130s, both placed into service in the early 1950s.

Yup, 14 years of Montana (and all those other meadow rat ridden western states) and never hit a deer. But one did run out from the borrow ditch head first into my front fender, flip over the hood, and skitter around in circles in the other lane before running off in the direction it came from.

the best car rental company is the one that needs a reposition. Especially if you are doing an interstate one-way, call around and see if anyone needs a vehicle transported to your destination. We have done this several times, with different rental companies. Our best was a Ford mini-van from Sacramento to Seattle…