In the UK the 5 door DSG GTI is about £30k, the cheapest E class is £34k.. I’m not sure if it’s the Mercedes that’s a good deal or the Golf that’s a bad one.

An E-class can be leased for around $300/mo all in here in the UK, although that’s a base spec diesel - “European” cars just aren’t fancy here.

Titanic was a British ship though - Built at Harland and Wolff in Belfast, and owned by the White Star Line of Liverpool.

I don’t buy it. Read this case study:

It’s just a case of making sure the computer has the correct sensors and criteria to be able to pass or fail the product. I worked at a factory where up until that point the visual tests were done once an hour or so on the product, but when they figured out how to build the sensors and software to do it the visual…

If it can’t be built properly by computers then their production engineers screwed up. Computers are good at repeating actions precisely, and the whole point of mass production is that everything is the same every time; hence robots are good at mass production, and better at it than humans if it has been set up…

I have a sneaky feeling that this is a “Of course it’s expensive, it’s hand made” thing more than anything. If you look at the classiest competitors for the very top of the line S-Class (Range Rover, possibly RR Ghost, Panamera Turbo, etc.) they’re all hand built, and that has a bit of a bearing on this - you don’t…

Looking at the map for the area the street on the other side of the intersection goes pretty steeply uphill. It might be that he was aiming for that.

They already have a stealth bomber which they don’t use because it’s too expensive to use like a B-52, and this will end up the same while the B-52 will fly on. Where’s the aircraft to cheaply loiter in permissive airspace with massive amounts of ordinance? I know we shouldn’t base capacity on the last war, but almost…

Nah, Wales is much more like West Virginia than Cornwall - it’s a post industrial wasteland with abandoned 1980s GM cars everywhere, just like the Mountain State.

When I worked in the US in ‘02 my boss had one of these. My abiding memories were

It went a bit better with a race tuned 2.3 in it. Here’s the Vauxhall Chevette HSR in its natural habitat.

I was hoping for an enormous eagle too.

The part I’m not clear on is whether she’s made an official allegation to the police or not - all I can find is that she’s suing.

The only positive to this is that it proves that a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle can be built by a bloke in a shed. That means that the bloke in a shed sportscar industry we have here is safe for the future.

I’d imagine the knobs work half as fast in the UK.

If it’s as good as everyone says, it’s worth it I guess. Here in the UK a cinema ticket costs somewhere around $14 so in comparison this does look like pretty decent value.

I think people sometimes value the length of a game over the quality, even if the length of the game is all in grindy fetch quests and endlessly…

It may not seem triumphant (I see what you did there), but the TR7 was the biggest selling TR.

During the recent UK flooding, the army was deployed:

Here’s one of my guitar heroes.