I only did it so someone would make the “Nice pair of Bristols” joke. I am a bad person.

Bristol:

Armstrong Siddley can beat itself - its parent company, which also made cars, was Armstrong Whitworth.

In 2005 a Sagaris was £49,995, and a Porsche 911 Carrera (poverty spec) was £59,318. So we are looking at a price around 16% cheaper than the standard 911. Today’s 911 is £73,509 (or $84,300 in the US), so it’d be somewhere around £62,000, or $71,000, assuming they could keep the homologation and shipping costs down.

Rather than going for hall effect, which will be quite a lot of electronics in a place they won’t like being, what about a pulse generator that attaches to the speedo cable at the dashboard end?

Is it just me or are the proportions of this car really off from this angle? It looks like it needs about another foot of car back there.

It is only the 289, after all.

I can’t see Tata wanting the whole group - Alfa and Jeep would need to go straight away, as would Chrysler/Lancia, due to the overlap with JLR. That said, according to wikipedia they do have a joint venture in India.

So maybe not Tata or Geely, but there are others. What about Suzuki? They’ve just finished up disentangling from VW, they’re #1 in India (which is a much less crowded market than China) and with big presence in all the major Asian markets, and they have virtually no geographic or model crossover with FCA.

I guess you could say that revenge is a dish best served...hot.

Proud to Drive a Beater got it right below - it’s a kit car; a Spex Elf to be precise.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mitsubishi…

I guess we have universal healthcare, but to be honest I’d prefer cheap muscle cars.

The price here includes sales tax, which is 20%. That gets you down to $48,125. Then there’s a 10% duty for big engined new cars, which gets you down to $43,750. You also need to consider that you get standard the GT package ($2495) that gets you down to $41255, the low ratio diff ($395) down to $40,860 , 19” wheels…

You forget that they have no idea who was there - there were cars, bicycles, pedestrians, people trying to get a free look at the airshow. It’s entirely possible that whole families were incinerated, and there would be nobody left to call them to find out if they were OK. That’s why it’s taking a long time, and…

Don’t ever change.

As a former child who was very bad at sport (seriously; I still can’t catch) I think that participation trophies don’t work, as it teaches a bad lesson.

Chevy have completely botched the SS. I think it would be better to look the other way, at Chrysler. The Charger has been a big success for them - 856,000 sold so far, and still selling 90,000 a year. The Chrysler 300 has done even more than that with about 875,000 a year although sales have tailed off a little. If…

I loved that game! I thought the controls were just clunky enough to give a really good idea of captaining the ship. The damage modeling was great too.

I have a feeling they aren’t being retired. The Raptor is much better for the battlefield, I think that’s a given - but then the Predator is used by the CIA too for a lot of shady business. I think they’ll be passed along to the CIA who would very rarely need more than two Hellfires at a time.