The Middle East has been throughly destabilized since the fall of the Ottoman Empire due to that debacle for humanity that was WWI. Saddam Hussein was not going to live forever. At some point we would have arrived at the current situation quite naturally

Jalopnik: why do idiots buy CSUV’s instead of cars?

This is why NATO is absolutely obsolete and needs to be scrapped. It doesn’t enhance our allies capability it undermines it as they’ve proven that they rely on the alliance with us as national defense welfare with the US taxpayers footing the bill defending some of the per capita wealthiest countries in the world.

Only gm could make a convertible that has poor visibility

Except it never really does. I never saw any deals on trucks because gas was $3 a gallon in the past. It’s sales of new cars and the manufacturers that take the hit. For whatever reason the consumer is largely unaffected. And here’s why. Contrary to Internet “wisdom” for the most part people buying large suv’s and…

Ok you’ve just described the entirety of human civilization going back to one cave realizing that the men from the next cave over venerated a different animal spirit than you.

This is the closest ford ever came to a good looking ranchero. The el Camino on the other hand always had a much more proportional style even the “ugly” 70's years.

Feces

The number of poles isn’t an indication of being single or three phase. This is what determines the speed. 2 pole at 60hz is 3600rpm minus a little slip

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Yes.

Jeep Wrangler.

You complain about THIS? Instead of your average gawker article about the best bathhouse hookup spots in San Francisco and how to get between them without owning a car?

F1 needs to stop beating around the bush trying to reinvent the wheel and adopt the same technology unlimited hydroplanes did 20 years ago

I can now post it as a reply instead of a comment.

Yes and this is probably the biggest reason they're still around today

Consumer reports is useless as are any other publications ranking new press test vehicles is one thing. We all know full well how abyssal these vehicles fare after a few years and a few thousand miles on them.

Aside from fleet CAFE standards they shouldn’t even bother. We all know the segment is dying and people don’t look to Chrysler or dodge for this type of automobile any more than people look to BMW for a pickup truck.

Cookie cutter

There’s plenty to go around. You can’t tell me you would go see a full production multi sequel “Legend of Zelda” movie? Of course you would.