Precisely. The problem is excessive “sportiness” in sedans and hatchbacks. You don’t need to know that your car has a class leading time around the Nordschleife when you are driving to Costco. Nobody needs (and in reality most people don’t want) stiffened and lowered suspension and enormous wheels with low profile…

I was reading a bit about it, and apparently it was decided a few years ago that it (IFDL on the F-35) wasn’t needed. So the current efforts focus around adding link 16 to the F-22.

Looked like a standard transmission to me - I didn’t know POTUS could drive stick?

My understanding is that the F-35 uses MADL, which is a completely different system again; are we looking at the prospect of this pod being integrated onto the F-35 at some point?

The trademark is arguably genericised, and in any case I couldn’t find a better picture. So there.

Free range Zamboni!

If he’s happy to trade or sell them, he’s not a hoarder IMO. If I had a bit of land it’d probably be full of rusted cars too.

Buick doesn’t really care about the US market much - it’s hit the sweet spot in China and that’s what counts. Buick in the US is trending towards being the US version of Opel/Vauxhall almost by accident - a lot of the cars Buick now sells started out as european models.

10% of the total is sales tax, plus weight tax and annual tax, so you’re down to $48k. All of the parts have to be homologated and tested before the car can go on the road, which is expensive for such a small production run.

There were a few little niggles around the Commonwealth that made me think that way. Two places that spring to mind are the Combat Zone and Easy City Downs. walked into both expecting a conversation, and ended up shooting everyone in the face with a shotgun in both locations. The same could be said of Gunners’ Plaza…

There’s only one thirsty politician for me.

I can’t work out which post this is a reply to, but generally speaking the military would have quite liked to have everything, probably with a death ray bolted to it for good measure, ignoring the cost.

I guess using this photo was a spur of the moment decision.

I have read into it, and as far as I can see it was about the farthest sighted thing we could have done. The Harriers were quickly approaching EOL as were the ships.

Here is a note that a Labour treasury minister actually left on his desk in 2010 when he left. The Prime Minister has waved this note at the opposition benches during PMQs.

AWD isn’t much of a stretch - the Ecosport (which is on the Fiesta platform) has an AWD variant. It’s completely possible but I don’t see it happening while the Focus RS is around.

That’s 25 bucks’ worth of sparkle for free. Where’s my credit card?

A true Jalop would be checking out that sweet Buick.

Since it’s vaguely related (Insignia replaced it, and the Lacrosse is related to that) here’s Clarkson’s review of the Vauxhall Vectra. Maximum Meh.

I only drove it for around 200 miles (it was cheaper than the train) but I’m guessing that it had suffered some fairly serious abuse.