If I’d been part of the backstage crew, I would’ve had my Crown Victoria ready to tow that lump of fuck off of the ice. Would’ve been a hilarious (and ultimately insulting) scene.

The only way to reverse the course Xi has laid in, is to forcibly destroy their economy. That is to say, encourage the entire West to ditch their manufacturing capacity. Cheap, yes, but it enables them to behave irresponsibly.
Shareholder capitalism has played a role in this, and must be held to account.

What we need is something that bends, but doesn’t break. I would be OK with having reinforcing spars (similar to how NASCAR has it) on the windshield as an option if I’m so terrified of this happening to me.

For the Viera, I’m hoping they go with the Battle Bunny (Body type in second picture) design.

A local company offered to give the new tundra a skin. Maybe they could give it the roasted look without the actual damage.

Four wheels, capacity for four, easy to fix, easy to maintain, budget $3,000-$5,000...with a post-purchase budget of $2k sorting out mechanicals?

My friend, the 2004-2011 Crown Victoria Police Interceptor fits that to a T. Everything on the Vic is easy to wrench on for maintenance, and the average selling price on…

Good. Pseudo-modern Final Fantasy games can go burn in a dumpster fire thrown from Mount Everest for all I care.

This is Florida. Common sense ceased to exist there for centuries. This should not surprise anyone. 

Dealers that try to sell a Crown Vic above actual market value gets torpedoed by my community’s (CrownVic.net) vast knowledgebase.

There was a 2008 CVPI being sold by a Honda dealership in Tacoma earlier this month. After expressing interest in it initially, I took a closer look at the photos. Duct tape on the header…

Correct, it’s often taxed at the transaction value, rather than the new-market value. Crown Vics, for instance, are worth $25000 brand new, while used vics range in the $500-$5000. My car, a $3000 purchase, cost me $600 for registration, half of which was the Use Tax in Washington State. That’s a one-time tax that is…

Most criminal and civil prosecutions brought by a government agency typically is revenue neutral or actually runs in the red, with the intent of deterring or forcing compliance from others who were not investigated but are potential targets for enforcement.

 What if car designers went with hybrid steel and aluminum construction? Put aluminum in the crush zones, steel where it needs to be tough. 

Those are bumper covers. Cheap as hell to replace. 

I’d be more concerned about that low tire pressure warning. 

Too bad the 1,000 horsepower does nothing about that terrible sight picture through the windshield.

Main issue is that air superiority can also be impacted by ground assets such as the S-400 Anti-Air System. That thing has a stupidly huge range, and that presents a massive risk to the air superiority game.

There are pawn shops in Japan? :U

There are pawn shops in Japan? :U

We need analog cars, period.

WS-80 or DM-V2. They are both similarly specced and can be used interchangably on a sedan. For my Crown Vic, I picked up the DM-V2's as they were slightly cheaper than the WS-80's.