I agree. Manual gearboxes are best for something like the Miata. Not a lot of power, natural aspiration and modest straight line performance. The BRZ/FT-86 is the same way as well. I’ve owned the last 3 generations of BMW M3/4 and I can only honestly say the e46 M3 was better with a manual. The new M4 has so much…

Or maybe the stealership is just trying to sell me a transmission service that I just did the week prior.

Would you really want racing harnesses made by these clowns?

Congratulations. It's your job to violate people's rights to no measurable benefit.

Only takes one of these every few months to make the rest of that stuff not seem so important. None of those weapons confiscated were going to be used in a terrorist act, otherwise it’d be smeared all over the news that TSA thwarted a terrorist attack.

How many would hijack a plane? How many would open fire in a crowded airport before they got to security? I worry more about lax maintenance of airliners than anyone inside the metal tube. Money the FAA doesn’t have because of thousands of people poking at crap all day. Did they give the plastic GI Joe gun back? Nope.…

I don’t want it privatized, but shut down. The concept is a flawed and execution is impossible. After taking some million nail clippers, small pocket knives, a plastic gun from a GI Joe, and other none threatening items from innocent people, I feel no safer. In fact, the general disarmament of passengers leaves them…

Exactly, work smarter. The rules are absolutely insanely bogus these days and detract from what really matters. We just flew back from the carribean on Monday with our Toddler. When going through security they made a huge fuss about the size of our stroller and then after taking that away, made another huge fuss when…

Neither does TSA.

The real solution is to treat TSA officers as skilled professionals, with pay and benefits, and job security and level of respect commensurate with the importance of the job. This would require a restructuring of the agency away from the business model and towards a Customs or law enforcement model.

The real solution is to treat TSA officers as skilled professionals, with pay and benefits, and job security and level of respect commensurate with the importance of the job.

No, they aren’t designed to do it. They’re designed to fly with one inoperable until they restart the other, they’re designed to restart midair, they’re designed to fly to the nearest airport with an engine out. They are not designed to operate with two engines out, ever. It’s a CAAM level 3 incident, and those aren’t…

They were all distracted by the incredibly attractive flight crew. Seriously, I think Singapore Air only hires supermodels.

I have been a TSA officer for almost 8 years. I can think of a number of reasons for this failure rate.

Are you confusing this with Malaysian? Singapore is one of the top-rated airlines in the world.

“No anomalies were detected and the same aircraft then proceeded to fly the return route with only a two hour delay.”

Gov’t is getting out of hand. Who polices the police? Oh that’s right. The police.

It wasn’t really an unpopular opinion as it was an ignorant one. Maybe RTFA next time.

The Defenders that were seized were legal. That’s the problem. For example, the feds seized a 1984 Defender, in 2014. That’s a 30 year old car, which makes it well within legal age. Also, if you read the full article you’d know the lawyer in this case got paid the grand sum of $0.

Please go back and re-read the original stories about the case. These land rovers WERE older than 25 years. The feds just didn’t reference the correct VIN database when putting together their list. This is 100% government idiocy and 0% consumer ignorance.