I don’t get the “bloated” bitching. My Countryman is like a foot shorter than the Focus 5-door I ditched for it. And Minis have a certain personality to them that I haven’t really found in other cars (the Focus lasted about a year and a half before I just couldn’t take it. Good car, but absolutely soulless).

How does it hurt? To me it looks a hell of a lot more cohesive than the new 4-door.

Then don’t buy one? People bitched about the R56 generation when it came out, too. People thought the Clubman looked stupid, hated the rear pillar treatment, blah blah.

The wheel arches have been present on every Mini going back to the R53.

Official release info says 17-19” wheels

I don’t think they’re ugly at all, especially paired with the dorsal spine you see on the likes of Polish and Greek F-16s. But then I tend to dig chunked-up late-block aircraft. I also prefer the F-15E to the F-15A/C.

No! Pretty much the exact opposite. The B-2 is much more sedate than the B-1. The times I’ve seen a B-1 fly at airshows it has always struck me as somewhat like seeing a race car driving along regular streets. You can just tell it has so much more than what it’s allowed to show off.

Saw one of these things fly at an airshow in Dallas when I was a kid. Early 90s sometime.

I have a 7 year old who loves them. So...I’m tired of them, but I’m not at the same time.

Yeah, been to Italy a few times and the driving definitely demands your attention. But between the extremely casual relationship with lanes in the major cities and the terrifying cliffside roads around the Amalfi coast, people seemed to get around just fine without much fuss.

It’s funny - where I live, there’s a major highway that kind of ends and turns into more of an epic surface street. Seems like once a month or so there’s some kind of horrific wreck on it. But they’re always at cross streets, never on the sharp 90-degree bend that sends it from north/south to east/west.

I don’t think it’s that laws should be stricter. They should just be enforced.

A lot of the reason for that long front overhang is European pedestrian crash regulations. It’s hit Minis, too (where I would argue the short front overhang is even more a part of the car’s identity)

Land Rover did this for a few years back in the mid-90s. When the second-gen Range Rover (the P38A) came out, they kept selling the first gen RR as the Range Rover Classic.

I’m going to go with the third-gen Ford Taurus.

I’ll agree with the Rafale, but the Eurofighter just looks hideous to me.

That’s an AH-1W Supercobra. No such thing as an AH-1Y. There is a newer model - the AH-1Z - that’s comparable to the UH-1Y (and shares something like 70% parts). It’s easy to recognize due to the four-blade rotor and wider “wings”.

Yes, the dorsal fairing was added during the P-51D-10NA production run and was field-fitted to other Mustangs from August 1944 onward. Although pics from the war make it plain that not all P-51s got the mod.

The “huge” Countryman is nearly a foot shorter than the Ford Focus. And it’s six inches shorter than the Fiat 500X (161 to 167 inches).

Never had a problem with O’Hare, either. One time I got delayed there for several hours, but it was due to snow somewhere else that threw a delay shockwave through the entire system. Not O’Hare’s fault. And I can think of many worse airports to spend a multi-hour delay in.