There are dozens of these running around in South Jersey, where I used to live, and in the Charleston, SC area, where I live now, and I see a very good portion of those covered in mud, so someone is using them! SAVE THE RAPTORS!!!

The people I know and have met that drive Raptors live in expensive homes with many other fun vehicles - GT500s, GT-Rs, Vipers, Z06s, etc. It's not any more a bro truck than a regular F-150, it's just easier to MAKE it a bro truck.

Lower power, yes, but if it's potentially 600 pounds lighter? WHOO DOGGIE!

The engine family was originally called 'Twin Force,' but greenwashing caused them to change the name.

This is the 3.0L Yamaha V6, which came with the Gen I and II manual-equipped SHOs. The 3.2L Yamaha V6 came with the Gen II auto SHOs. The 3.4L Yamaha V8 came with the Gen III auto-only SHOs.

You're comparing a car from the early nineties to one built today. Got it. You're officially full of shit.

I think you're full of shit. I've driven and been driven in plenty of SHOs, of all generations (minus the current), and they don't just die at high RPM. That engine was designed to be amazing over 5,000 RPM.

Later cars were electronically limited, but the earlier cars probably just ran out of gear. The first and second generation bodies were pretty slippery, and fairly light, comparatively.

No, you didn't.

Yes, but was the 4-cylinder HSC ever fun?

In almost all cases, aircraft are identifying themselves so as not to get blown out of the sky. In this case, the aircraft was either not squawking or was on an incorrect frequency.

Call the engine family by it's original name - TwinForce.

Root and install Cyanogenmod. Problem solved, natively.

Yeah, and Kinja isn't letting me update.

Yes. Correct.

Now, in that case, and I have a lot of experience with AEGIS, though not those ancient baselines, the story was that the Identification Friend/Foe (IFF) noted that the 747 was squawking on an enemy channel, and the system and/or operation identified it on an incoming attack vector, rather than the correct vector,…

And that's one of the main reasons I'm waiting for the 2016!

To be fair, the USS Vincennes classified an Iranian 747 as an Iranian F-14.

I moved to Philly for college, back in 2001, and haven't lived in the area since then. Every time I go up there, the city has changed significantly. I remember my mom getting pissed because I walked from the Stone Pony to Neptune City, at like 1 am, after a show.

The Asbury Park carousel was removed, then a skate park built it's stead. I went to and played many a ska show there, back the late nineties and early oughts...