Been through this before and it never ends well. Do yourself a favor and bail out. It will hurt, but you can either let her bleed you dry or you can cut out the infected area on your own so that it can heal. If you aren't proactive, you will have a breakdown when she splits on you.

Who enjoys this junk enough to spend so much of their income on a car?

I think they should bring back Hummer in some manner, but do away with the image of gross excess, financial irresponsibility and outright vehicular gluttony and embrace an image of sustainability.

Only offer mpg-efficient powertrains in vehicles that are capable and long-lasting but without the steroid induced…

It's a nice car, but that transmission is an A4LD, not an AOD or C4 like what was used in the V-8 Mustangs. That's the reason Ford had to turn down the output from the factory so it wouldn't frag the transmission. It's the same thing that's found in some of the Explorers and N-A four cylinder Mustangs. Trying to…

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Thanks for the breakdown! I figured they wouldn't be exact counterparts of each other, but I was curious to know where each other stands since they're both evolutions of each country's heavy fighters.

I'm not trying to make this into a nasty argument between different hardware, but how does the Strike Eagle compare to the Su-34 Fullback?

Maybe I'm being unnecessarily harsh and bitter, but if it had been here in the US, I could imagine a pushy salesman trying to convince her that she needed to trade in her car for a new Civic for only $350 a month with a 'competitive' trade-in of $500.

Wow, I think its worth moving to Japan just to experience a sales/support staff like that.

Can we start up the F-22 manufacturing line in response?

I think Russia and its industrial war-machine doesn't have to make apologies for itself and doesn't get manipulated by bureaucrats like the US's and that's the reason why projects like the F-35 have been such a money sucking disappointment.

Yeah, I think Israel actually did that with the F-35? I wonder if the F-15 & F-16 could be made into legitimate 5th generation competitors, not unlike the Flanker and how it has evolved into a 4th + generation fighter.

I may be wrong, but the F-16 sent to intercept that Fullback seems a little outclassed. The US would be a lot better off developing an export version of the F-22 than whatever the agenda is now.

Yamaha already made it. The WR250X. It looks like a lot of fun, but I doubt it will get me into too much trouble on the street like a bigger bore bike and the suspension is a nice starting point to take it from a premium beginner's bike to a legitimate super motard. I'm burned out on sport bikes and track days; this…

The reason I made that comment was that it would seem that a higher revving sport bike engine might show signs of faster wearing valves than an HD engine and how their experience was contrary to logic.

I'm glad you posted this. There are a lot of parameters at play, but it gets frustrating when journalist just associate the bore and stroke as solely defining the engine's output characteristics. If it were that simple, engineering students wouldn't have to take two years of math before even starting their…

Quoted from a technical article on Cycle World:

It's worth ditching these bikes with heavy sex appeal and racing a bunch of mini-motos in a back parking lot somewhere just to dissociate with this image.

I know we're not here to talk about the Jay Leno video, but Jesus Christ that was awkward to watch. All the PR guy knew was the weirdly translated brochure diatribe probably written in Japan and with unique Japanese mannerisms meant for Japanese people and Leno's taste for ill suited mannerisms and it just makes for…

That's really neat! Those tires are impressive, too.

I'd rather have carbs than overly lean and jerky FI like what's found on the newer FZ1 and my 2009 R1 and need an expensive reflash to be tolerable.