I feel like even with the rainy winter, you still have way, way more days to enjoy top down motoring. Where I live, even on summer days where it isn’t raining, you’re still very likely to wind up behind a dump truck throwing dirt and stones or a poultry truck heading to or returning from the slaughterhouse, with…

Oh yeah, he definitely intended to mass produce something - either cars or motorbikes, or maybe both. The scooter in particular looks like a factory finished product. 

It seems like it was pretty well thought out and crafted for a homebuilt project. It really looks like one of a number of postwar European bubble cars, shows that there were people on this side of the Atlantic with similar ideas at the same time. Wonder whatever happened to it, has to still be around. 

Well obviously, but that was their logic. If the pilots had to be retrained on the system, than the 737 Max lost a key selling feature. Having the system be invisible and not clearly disclosed meant that Boeing could get away with claiming that no retraining was needed, which was the whole point of using MCAS in the…

I’ve never understood people who do things like this. I mean, yeah, OK, these were a special edition only available for the first limited volume model year, but these are mass produced cars - the special edition is barely different from the version that became widely available in quantity barely a year later.

Not to defend Cerberus, but they were left a big steaming mess by Daimler and only had about a year before the economy hit the wall. 

A Garfield themed restaurant?

The other alternative would have been to build the plane without MCAS and just make pilots undergo retraining on the 737 Max to familiarize themselves with its new flight characteristics, but that would have eliminated one of the Max’s major selling points (commonality with the older 737s eliminating the need for…

MCAS is supposed to make the 737 Max handle like an older 737, without it, 737 pilots would have had to undergo extensive retraining for the new version due to the very different flying characteristics caused by the different engine placement. 

Yes, that was the point of the MCAS. The 737 Max’s engines being mounted so differently from other 737s (further forward and sticking up slightly above the wing) changed its flight characteristics enough that retraining would ordinarily have been required, but the system was supposed to run in the background and…

The Neon and the Saturn S-Series were the first small cars in a long time where it seemed like the Big Three actually gave a shit, they weren’t perfect, but it was apparent that an effort had been made to build something not completely terrible, which was huge progress.

Because convertibles are pointless about 8 months out of the year in places with actual seasons. Sports cars in general are a hard sell these days, and being soft top only probably doesn't help the 124 much. 

As long as it still has the blue and white roundel on the front, most BMW customers won’t notice or care. Many of them probably have no clue that their car isn’t FWD already.

Nice price, but who in their right mind would rely on a 30 year old Peugeot as a daily driver?

And every one of them would go to Russia, China, and the UAE.... maybe one or two to Saudi Arabia. 

The Miata’s is especially egregious, because they took the trouble to add fake windows inside the buttresses as well, but they don’t match up with the fake windows on the outside. 

What about if some ice in the pitot tubes can bring down a whole aircraft? Same story?

Because then the pilots would have had to be retrained on the 737 Max’s unique flight characteristics. The whole point of making it automatic was that it was supposed to run in the background invisibly and mask the 737 Max’s differences so that, to the pilot, it would appear as though it was behaving like any other…

This is what happens when he doesn’t have a handler or a sponsor pick out his clothes for him. 

What, you mean like Mazda Mazdaspeed 3 or MG MGB?