I had a 2002 Xterra and loved it. Didn’t use it as an offroader, but it was great for schlepping dogs and mountain bikes around and it had the most dialed-in, perfect-feeling steering of any vehicle I’ve ever driven.

I meant a reboot of the original Patrol, not the ghastly monster it has swollen into.

Here’s the thing I don’t get - why hasn’t anyone taken a serious swing at the Wrangler?

This list is dumb. The Mitsubishi Outlander? Why don’t we just list every single SUV/crossover thing at that point?

So we have Stark’s product-placement Audi, but not this?

Terrible list - but hey it’s subjective so whatever.

That’s awesome! Growing up in Dallas we didn’t really get squat, though heading to Arlington for Rangers games we’d often see C-130s on approach.

Reminds me of a vacation to San Diego when I was a kid - early 90s sometime. We were staying on Coronado Island and were treated to a steady stream of low-level flybys as Intruders and S-3B Vikings came into land at the NAS just up the beach from us. They were low enough that from our balcony you could see the pilots…

Turkish and Greek F-16s go at it all the time in very aggressive “mock” dogfights over the Aegean. I’ve heard from a few in that part of the world (it’s weird where you pick up contacts when scale modeling is your hobby) that sometimes the fights get out of hand but that the respective militaries do the equivalent of…

It’s funny - the things that we design to be multirole usually end up sucking. But the stuff that we build to be single-purpose often ends up excelling at multirole.

Yep!

Looking back - it was SO BAD - Lewis Gossett Jr. winning because he could make his P-38 do a loop! The Japanese pilot going kamikaze! Some BS jet trainer doubling as a secret WWII Messerschmitt design! But it’s that special breed of terrible that manages to work.

It’s not entirely dissimilar to the plot of Iron Eagle III - different setup but still leads to ragtag group flying outdated aircraft against a technologically superior foe.

And if they go that route, they totally have to save “Highway to the Danger Zone” until they go out to the Boneyard (I’m assuming that’s where they’d pull anything out of mothballs) and reveal the F-14s. Then make it the “getting the jets ready” montage song.

I’ll take it a step further. Hackers take over the drones as well as either take over or disable the current data linked hotness of manned fighter aircraft.

Ah, the good old Land Rover CEL.

Yes...and no?

What’s up with the emblem alignment on the front? I can get behind going slightly above center - rule of thirds and all that - but “screw it, let’s put it up top” just makes it seem like some design intern screwed up.

Two assholes do not make a right...

Due to wife mandate I have to stick with autoboxes, but I will say in all my years of Mini ownership, I think the automatic is better than the manual in the R56 and beyond. Had a few manuals as loaners and was very unhappy with the position and feel of the clutch. Shifter felt a bit squishy, too. Where the automatic -…