What probably going on is that the developers are pulling the list from maybe a DOT server of every car make sold in the US, though this would not explain car companies that stopped making cars before these things were centrally tracked. Or maybe some crazy gearhead on Git has published an open source library of car…

I mean, if you think about it that's a smart move... Why pay for R&D when you can get the tech by other means. Just ask Wernher von Braun.

bob's your uncle

B6 Passat headlights and Mercedes M-Class cabin air inlets.

I take it you have never worked in marketing. People really don't lookup or Google words or phrases that they are unsure about, it's all about the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . I've never really understood the mentality.

It's funny how the Up! in terms of intended purpose is more inline with the original Beetle while the new Beetle is nothing more than a fashion accessory.

There is precedent as the original VW Concept One was built on the Polo platform.

Uhhg. Would love to know how much this cost the american taxpayers, coming out of the def budget.

Well... sort of... Yes, in WWI and WWII they found that the vast majority of soldiers never hit anything (for a variety of reason, one being that the vast majority of people are averse to straight up killing another human, so they would shoot over the enemys head, suppressing them). So after the war the doctrine moved…

So we won the air war over Korea in the 1950s because our superior jet fighters made up for the useless pilots flying them? Oh, wait! It was the exact opposite, the Mig-15 was a superior plane to the F-86 and we still won the air war because our pilots were so highly trained compared to their North Korean, Chinese and…

There, there - go get your Starbucks, go to Whole Foods for your free-range chicken salad sandwich for dinner, and settle down for a nice evening watching MSNBC.....

Yes, but the limited situational awareness did increase the soldiers feelings that they were seen as no different than mass produced artillery shell by their army.

Hey, at least today we trust each soldier enough to give them all maps of the battlefield. In the early years of WWI it was thought by the higher ups that if all the soldiers were issued maps they would just use them to run away from the frontlines rather than, you know... fight adequately.

My god, I remember doing my very first bit of coding as a kid opening up my Driver save file and changing the values that got me past that mission.

I know, it's a fairly obscure movie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt013309…

It's not as bad as the late 1990s Toyota Camry and Honda Accord, the Armageddon/Deep Impact of cars.

Haha, I guess all midsize cars from the mid 1980s look the same to me. It's a Toyota Camry.

The light olive green one above it. Yes, judging by the third window the white one is a Sierra which was sold in the US as a Merkur.

It's hard to tell, is this a Saab or a Ford Escort?