May I interest you in any Japanese truck from the 80s?

“Sadly, Bally wouldn’t get very long to enjoy his miniature bomber and he passed away in 2020.”

I mean cool but all that time and effort just to make a moderately smaller model of the real thing seems pointless, why waste so much time on a glorified lawn ornament that—-holy shit it actually flies.

Seeing it taxi with the cockpit open breaks my brain!

Still more room than coach.

I got better.

Kill ducks to eat potatoes... seems like a fair trade.

Do, it makes something that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.

And made everyone who tried it evolve into newts.

Once considered the great culinary experiment, Starfleet abandoned trans-fat research after the prototype mysteriously failed in 2285.

The peppermint ice cream is a nice little touch

Yeah, if I was a car company, I would do my best to stay away from GM. They are all about shared cars. They will slap a badge for every brand on each car and call it a day. Then when things get rough, those lower companies/brands will get the axe. It’s how they’ve done business for decades.

Unluckiest is a tough one It could be argued that both Citroën and AMC signed their 1970's death warrants by backing the rotary engine. Citroën spent way too much money on development, and was nearly bankrupted when it failed. That was the major reason for it’s sale to Peugeot (as I understand it). AMC’s pacer was…

all those safety regulations are expensive. It would be cool if they did it. 

The stupid thing is that IH is still in business. Surely it wouldn’t be too hard to whip up an SUV or a light duty pickup in short order. Get a partner, if you needed too.

It was already on an unlucky streak the day it was formed from a group of unlucky car companies. They engineered cars that were a bit ahead of their time and. Their 4wd/AWD cars and wagons, Jeeps and Jeep SUVs, and especially the small and affordable SUV were all vehicles that became the bread and butter for…

American Motors Corporation. Whether it was poor management, lack of funds, questionable mergers, they made innovative cars for their day. Yes they didn’t have the build quality of the big 3 and put out some misses, but the most beloved Jeeps come from AMC, they had the best pony car out of the all the US, and they…

Saturn, promising upstart allowed to do their own thing at GM that GM proceeded to GM into irrelevancy with shared cars that were crap(Ion) or just wrong for the market(Astra) and then proceeded to die young at the hands of duplicate or irrelevant products in a recession.

International Harvester - They spent decades making pick-up trucks, and what would eventually called SUVs, but went out of business in 1980 just before the SUV craze hit in the mid-80s.