sleeping on the ground sucks when it’s raining half the week or more.

That’s a troubled bridge over water.

Counterpoint: daring design = good

This seems likely to be used purely as an excuse to hassle minorities. The fact that they didn’t include any kind of objective standard is very telling.

If Fiat and Alfa cannot succeed in the US, I struggle to see how any Chinese Automaker could. 

Looks like “less than 2 Chevy Express vans stacked on top of one another”

Yes the combined power of 17 people can make an unbelievable difference.  

Because prices will not change, and the manufacturers will pocket the 7K extra on every EV sold.

My wife’s Venza got T-boned, flipped, and totaled.

Red Bull costs you wiiiiiiings!

“I slowly feathered the brakes as I’m going to compensate for my balls dragging down the runway...”

So we force pilots to retire at 60 but we let walking corpses run the government?

Couldnt agree more. Northerly is quite an awesome venue, its awesome seeing shows there at night on the lake front with the view of the skyline behind you. 

This is important to remember - the SST requires 8 liters of Daiqueen SSTF-I trans fluid and a new filter every 5k miles.

But seriously, snow tires.

It’s pretty simple; you can’t advertise something for sale at a price that you don’t intend to actually sell at that price or under terms not mentioned in the ad. A grocery store can’t advertise $1/gallon milk, but refuse to sell it to you at that price unless you also buy $10 worth of cottage cheese after you walk…

Given what we know about the maintenance of Russian tanks, trucks, mobile rocket launchers and other equipment, the safe assumption is that none of the planes have been properly maintained — and any paperwork suggesting compliance was probably falsified.

Maintenance records and up to date maintenance manuals are relevant only if you are expected to follow first world safety requirements. As others said, there is still plenty of need for commercial and military air transport within Russian air space.

Russia (and the USSR before them) had a hell of a time flying anything *safely* until they were able to buy western airplanes and especially western support for them. The Soviet era airplanes and airlines were death traps - and that is right back where they are going to shortly be. Not that it matters, since tourism…

What he↑ said.