They are just going back to what was normal on the old small domestic narrow bodies back in the day. Things got better in the 80's and 90's as planes got bigger.

It wasn't edited for content?? Usually any and all skin is at least blurred out on airline movies, if not cut out completely. But I haven't seen that movie, so if you are just being sarcastic because it is terrible my apologies.

The seats aren't smaller, you and your seatmates are just bigger. And the max a plane sits on the ground is 3hrs these days, even if they are next in line to take off, which kind of sucks, BTDT. The food was inedible when they did have it, I'd rather bring my own in coach, or just eat before leaving.

Completely dead serious here - some years ago I was on a PWM-DTW flight seated right behind Ray Charles. Who was reading the Braille edition of Playboy. The man obviously really does read it for the articles evidently. Sadly before the days of cell phones with cameras, because I totally would have taken a picture of…

Despite the fact that I heard the safety spiel 139 times last year, and probably 10K times in my life, I always try to pay attention during it. It's only polite, and the crew appreciates it. The whole thing is only a minute or so long, it's not particularly onerous.

And yet, the experience of picking up your new BMW at BMW Welt in Munich, a car that YOU specified down to the last option and color choice, then driving it around Europe for a few weeks, is so immensely satisfying. A car that has suffered no one else's neglect nor farts in the seats. A car that can be maintained from…

Actually, they sold kind of OK here in Maine. There a still a few XR4Tis around, though I have not seen a Scorpio in dog's years. We are literally and figuratively the closest part of the US to Europe. European cars have always done very, very well here, especially considering Maine is a relatively poor state.

Also interesting as the Merkurs did not have the heated windshields here. I test drove both an XR4Ti and a Scorpio back in the day new. God I am getting old...

Actually, on further reading, Land Rover did not likely get the embedded wire tech from Ford. Range Rovers were using that well prior to Ford buying Land Rover in 2000, when they were owned by BMW, and prior to that Rover as an independent company. All US-spec P38s had them ('95-on), probably late Classics, and…

Interesting - I don't believe Ford ever used the wire style in any of their US cars despite what that article says. Here they used the metallic coating on the windshield - you could see it as kind of a red/gold tint. Worked great, but as they said, screwed up the reception of radar detectors. The Rover windshield is…

Sure they did - in Audis with MMI. VWs are just too cheap to have a system like that. They get crappy touchscreen radios instead.

I don't love iDrive, but I HATE touchscreens in cars. I can operate an iDrive controller pretty much by feel with only a quick glance at the screen to confirm, much like physical buttons. A touchscreen forces you to LOOK at the screen. And the smudges, ugh. I'd be OK with having both options, then everyone can be…

I was shocked to find that my '11 328i did not alert on *10* PSI low tires - all four! And it has sensors, not the ABS type that would not alert to that scenario. My previous Saab alerted at 3-4PSI low.

My '01 Range Rover has a heated windshield. Super fine wires embedded in it, as opposed to the Ford metallic film type. Works unbelievably well. Defogs in seconds, melts ice in short order too.

This is sure the truth. I have a friend who just made CRJ700 captain at Go Jet (flies as Delta Connection out of LGA). He makes less than I made at my first professional IT job in 1996! <$40K/yr, but still a huge step up from when he started as a FO. And he has something like $50K in student loans.

They look great from a distance, it's when you get up close that it all goes to pot.

Noise regulations have nothing to do with what BMW is doing. They are enhancing the sound inside the car. I assume this is a combination of both adding sound, and using opposing frequencies to cancel unwanted boom and resonance. The noise regs are strictly for volume of sound outside the car, and have no bearing on…

How many people actually remember that they used to end their broadcast day instead of playing crappy infomercials all night?

Maine does it pretty regularly in the summer. 5-6 cop cars on a convenient on-ramp, with a bear in the air calling the shots. It's like a money-printing machine. They also have a white van with a tinted window in the side of it that they shoot laser out of from overpasses. I prefer the van, as there is more of a…

The most fun I have ever had at an autocross was in my '79 Peugeot 504D. 57hp of French fury, with the softest suspension ever made by the hand of man. Yet in true French fashion, it would actually grip like a magnet despite being leaned over on the door handles. Sadly no pictures of this endeavor survive, being from…