No, but it shows that the plane is highly maneuverable, which is useful. It’s sort of like videos of cars stopping from 120mph or a pickup hauling the Space Shuttle - likely not something that will ever happen in real life, but its got the chops to handle more mundane work.

Hit the brakes and he'll fly right by. 

The software in the F-35 has improved drastically over the past 2 years and is continuing to do so. This is why you have rookie 24 year old 1LT F-35 pilots taking out seasoned Colonels with over 20 years of flight experience in F-15s/16s.

The software in the F-35 has improved drastically over the past 2 years and is continuing to do so. This is why you have rookie 24 year old 1LT F-35 pilots taking out seasoned Colonels with over 20 years of flight experience in F-15s/16s.

Well I’d have been surprised if it’s not capable. We’ll probably only publicly get a true idea of it’s full capabilities in 20 years time or more. There were times during the development that I was convinced much of the negativity is intentional designed misinformation. Still $1.4tn and the time it took. We’re not…

I was skeptical of it’s flying abilities and then I saw this video and was like...this plane is going to be a beast and a viper at the same time.  As you stated I do not think we’ve seen all this craft is capable of yet in terms of straight up dog fighter - all I know is I sure as hell wouldn’t want to be flying…

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But it’s not a cost of ownership calculator. It’s an ordering page.

Bullcrap, you don’t get that breakdown until the final summary page, and you still have to expand the “show details” tab, which is collapsed by default.

I’ve been drooling over Teslas for the last 5 years, waiting for either a used Model S or a Model 3 to hit my sweet spot of about 35k. Now that I can finally afford one, I see Kia/Hyundai have their offerings with more range for less money. Sure, Teslas are more premium, but at this moment I just want to be able to…

a friend growing up had a 99 awd to take their family of 6 and 21 foot boat loaded to the gills to lake Powell. it did alright. not as effortless as the truck but so much more comfortable.

Funny that the AWD system for this family also was leveraged into the Syclone/Typhoon fun-times GM trucks of the era...  The drivetrains were solid.

Too late. Cancelled my reservations sooooo long ago.

“There’s no other way to provide this car and maintain sustainability. There’s no way around it.”

No need to apologize until the price hits $35,000.   It’s currently $36,200 - unless you can get Elon to pay the Destination and “doc fee”. 

“looks like he’s finally made good on that promise”

not quite.  Destination and doc fees bring the price to $36,200 

I bet they’ll try to get dodgy and not take back the car and then you’re out of that 7 day return period.  

Except that you can’t buy it for $35,000. Because Tesla adds a “doc fee” just like this guy. Especially after saying “Literally the car you can get for $35,000.”

> Destination & doc fee$1,200

Um, excuse me, but the price clearly says $25,000 with gas savings

Look, BBC America NEEDS that airtime for airing reruns of that iconic British show, Star Trek Voyager.