Scion was the product of the Fast and Furious crowd. I remember when the brand came out and it was directly marketed to the turner crowd. However, the tuner crowd is a shell of its former glory with people wanting to spend more on mobile phones than their cars. Also, less youth are driving in general and the car isn’t…

True, but as a mentioned before its no where near the circus of the US. No demographic in the US can escape the coverage be it on news, social media and even television entertainment. Here, you can literally miss it if you didn’t turn on the news for a week. It doesn’t drag on for more than 1/2 a year like it does in…

By weeks you mean early last week for 2 days.... this week not a peep. Hardly call that big news... the Tim Bosma and Ghomeshi trials have been bigger daily news stories. Hell, Trump has been bigger news than O’Leary’s, already panned bid for leadership.

Oh for sure they campaign to local party members, but it hardly makes the news and if it does it appears more as a photo-op in a local newspaper than the circus in the US.

This one survived whatever was thrown at it, might not have a bad engine if maintained properly? ;)

Dear god, now I understand why American’s are all over the place when talking about politics.

American’s at your finest, and the rest of the world shakes our collective heads as to why you don’t get you have a gun problem.

I’m really worried for the replacement, the concept looks very Fisher Price.

My favourite is a stanced Saabaru 92x Areo... all the mechanical goodness of Subura, with the subtle refinement of a Saab.

Not saying its a miracle craft, I am saying that a country decided to take it upon themselves to design the next gen aircraft and are doing it quickly and efficiently. A country that while technically very advanced, hasn’t produced a homegrown fighter in 1/2 a century and hasn’t fucked things up so far.

No, Lockheed gave Japan production rights and ran the bill up on licensing fees to the Japanese. Remember Lockheed has been pretty much run out of Japan after Lockheeds bribery scandal there. The reason the jet on paper costed so much was all the licensing fees, extra parts that had to buy, and the fact that the…

Yes, I wasn’t incorrect on the F-22 cost. And as I said the cost of one F-22 equals the same cost of all the development the Japanese have spent on R&D. Also, wrong about the “notorious” for hiding the military R&D spending, its all up for public debate and review, you just have to know where to find it. Its in…

Cost overruns that are a far cry from the cost overruns the US or Russians are running up on their aircraft development. Also, it was the partnership with Lockhead who ran the project way overbudget with licensing fees. Also, you cannot compare unit cost of the F-16, a jet who’s development started in 1978 with a jets…

Yep, F-35 is finally ready for all those nations that have backed out. Japan is reassessing their committment now that the X-2 has be revealed. Canada has backed out and is set to rebid the F-35 contract to other competitors. UK has scaled back future orders and Australia has completely backed out of the deal. Denmark…

Well I was incorrect on the F-35 cost, its actually a trillion dollars for not a single aircraft yet in the hands of the purchasers. So, even if the X-2 doubles in development costs with flight tests, its still cheaper by an astronomical amount compared to F-35 or F-22 platform developments. Hell, its cheaper than the…

Lets remember people, Japan has done this in a short time and costed them only $332 million to develop. While stupidly more complex requirements the F-35 development has been triple the cost and F-22 was in the realm of $30 billion! For just the cost of one F-22 Raptor, Japan has R&D themselves a stealth fighter. Even…

Maybe because the Dart is crap? Their reliability seems aweful, a bunch of recalls already for some real bizzar concerns like oil from the engine getting on the brakes. The 200 while a nice car really doesn’t pump anyone up to get excited about. I was looking into the the V6, AWD version and after reading about its…

Hmmm this new US loophole doesn’t bode well for me in Canada. As far as I know we don’t have a similar law and therefore the car will be classified as new and must meet current year standards. :(

They might as well do it, especially for anyone not on a US dollar (such as us Canadians). The Focus RS is a $48,000 dollar car here, while VW R is cheaper at $40,000. Yes the VW is low in power, but for a ultra refined, everyday car its a bargain compared to the Ford, plus all the discounts that VW is offering.