If Danica Patrick isn’t driving that cute pink car, I am very disappoint.

It’s really interesting to observe how well Antonov will handle this contract. Some of Ukraine’s military factories have seriously deteriorated after years of under-investment and bad management.

I’d never trust any Ukrainian company with cash until I see the product shipped. The decades of rampant corruption in Ukraine’s military industrial complex (much of it state owned), the lack of investment, and the lack of any significant domestic contracts have led to a serious deterioration of the factories, their…

I disagree. The Saudi Arabian special forces are in dire need of exactly this type of aircraft for their anti-terror anti-islamist operations. If you didn’t know, up until recently the Saudi special ops were a bunch of guys in white robes dropping bags of cash from the rear ramp of a C-130 onto the unsuspecting…

I remember the snobs used to say on forums 15 years ago that Saab can’t compete with Germans because... it does not have V8 engine and RWD..

This is a result of a very much expected consolidation in the car industry that has been going on for decades. Europe, just like America, used to have too many car companies for all of them to be profitable.

And a rebadged Opel would have sold much better as a Saab than the Saabified version of the same platform? I doubt it. The only possible way for this to work is for GM to completely disband the physical Saab factories, management, and R&D centers, and then simply have Opel factories produce Opels with Saab badge for…

I highly disagree with your comment. What DRS did is mostly eliminate close racing in Formula 1. First of all, the overtaking should not be the primary goal of F1 racing. What should be the goal is to keep the racing interesting, and that means more close racing. Right now what we see is when a slightly faster car…

1. I don’t think that the sequential shift is going to change the game that much. What do you think F1 drivers do in between races? They “race” in a simulator. Immediately, all the simulators will get the shift lever, and probably in no time, every driver will be as good as every other driver with those shifters.

F1 needs to take all the focus on the engine and put it toward chassis design.

Where you get the view that the main focus is on aero? I disagree. The main focus was on aero was during the final 5-6 years of the naturally aspirated V10 engines because they development was frozen. Hence, the only area where the teams could pour they money into were the chassis parts.

Bernie has a hand in the demolishing of modern Formula 1. In his chase for the short-term profits, he moved a lot of Formula 1 GPs to new Mickey mouse trace tracks, mostly in countries where the governments sponsor the F1 GPs to the tune of 20million USD per year. The traditional and very historic European GPs (which…

You get the facts confused here. FIA is the sanctioning body of F1, and many other motorsports (they are the FIFA of motorsports). But in case of F1, FIA does not own the commercial rights of F1. The commercial rights of F1 were historically controlled by Bernie Ecclestone, and today the commerical rights are owned by…

You raise very good point, and that’s economists have always been struggling with. While you can almost certainly pinpoint the inflation of a limited basket of foods that don’t change much, such as a gallon of milk, gallon of gasoline, car insurance, or the price of renting one square foot of an apartment, comparing…

2005, the year of high oil and gas prices and also when nobody still with pulse was willing to buy an American car because it was so technologically behind, when the Big Three dealers, specially those selling trucks or truck based SUVs were willing to give away the cars and trucks with a proverbial bag of cash in the…

Well, that’s a very difficult question to answer. You can argue that the pay in one specific occupation has not kept up, but if you look at something like GDP per capita or growth in specific occupations, then maybe it did.

You don’t know post cold war Russia. The Russian ruble lust 70% of its value against the USA dollar only in the 1998 financial crisis, and the 1990-1997 inflation of ruble was truly significant too. As for your surprise at the remark that a 20grand vehicle can have a 12 grand inflation in price in 15 years, I can only…

32K is the new 20K. Remember the inflation. This sort of truck may have cost 20K fifteen years ago.

Russians use short wave frequency

What’s even more annoying is the naming of individual races in NASCAR, like Geico 500 or Windows 10 400.. welcome to the era of new commercial whoredom.