There’s actually a company (http://www.4dtech.com/) that has kits to retrofit various Sync and navigation options into vehicles that weren’t originally equipped with them. It seems they’re working on building a kit for Sync 3. They’re not cheap, but if you want OEM fit and finish, plus OEM functionality, that’s the…

No, because they need the CFTs for their intended purpose, fuel.

Operationally, yes. This looks like it’s still in the first stages of testing and operational acceptance (post-IOC). In a large air battle, there will likely be at least two flights of Raptors, and two flights of Eagles. The Eagles will each have one aircraft that carries the pod.

It wasn’t a good response.

I know one person that drives a Subaru, and he wants to get rid of it because of the constant lesbian jokes. Subarus are not cool. A WRX is cool-ish. A STi is cooler. The rest are blandmobiles that are on par with beige Toyotas.

Still not cool. I saw one in downtown Charleston last weekend, and even my three-year-old son, who thinks EVERY car is cool, said something to the effect of “Daddy, what the heck is THAT?!?!”

I remember driving one of these at a GM performance driving event, back in 2004, and I was just plain bored. The shifter felt like crap, the engine felt sluggish, suspension was soft, the clutch felt awful. I know that they made them a lot better for 2005 and 2006, when they switched from the 5.7 to the 6.0, but damn,…

Ahh, now I see that it’s been updated to a DDG, the Bulkeley.

Tyler -

It would be really nice if Ford would update Sync 3 to work with Android Auto.

My biggest issue with Murphy was that he was just a freaking bonehead - on the bases, on the field, making plays - he always looked like a little league player. The only place where he really looked like he knew what he was doing was when he was at the plate. I’d take Rey Ordonez and his .246/.289/.310 slash line over…

YES!

I’ve been using Armor All for interior dressing for years, but have noticed that their quality has not been up to snuff, recently. What would you recommend for dash and other interior plastics?

That's the gun pod that was mentioned.

There are a few of those in PA, and I know of at least one in Greenbelt, MD. I tried to buy a bottle of bourbon while on a business trip, last year, and the doors were locked, despite the OPEN sign being on. I kept banging on the doors until the guy came over, screaming at me that it was drive-through only after like…

There’s a very helpful CSR on the Mustang forums named Deysha, and she usually does a good job of escalating things, but I’ve noticed several times where she’s said that she’s unable to assist, because the issues are with dealerships, not with the manufacturer. As always, mileage may vary.

Different materials, yes. The deskhouse is composite, while the hull will be made from steel.

Yup, and a destroyer that doesn’t even do a good job of the things that destroyers are supposed to do, like AAW and ASW. It’s basically a massive, hugely expensive gun platform. Yes, it carries guided missiles, but it can’t do area AAW like the Ticos and Burkes can, nor can it do BMD.

No, it’s a $5b asset whose secondary or tertiary mission is AAW. A Burke is a $2b asset whose primary mission is AAW.

It’s not really the slope (starboard-port) motion that’s an issue with the Tumblehome design, it’s the pitch (fore-aft). The shape of the hull is designed to slice through waves, but under high sea states, it could pitch down and into a wave, and never recover.