Could you imagine the fit that would be pitched if it was announced that the press corps would have to be accommodated in a second aircraft that followed Air Force One, due to space limitations?
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The Air Force invited Airbus to tender for 4 aircraft, but the requirement was that final assembly would have to be done in the US, and, obviously, that wasn’t going to be cost effective for such a small production run, so they didn’t bid. The initial plan to buy 4 planes instead of 2 was probably in part done to help…
Although the Secret Service and USAF were willing to entertain a twin engine plane this time around, their preference has always been for 3 or 4 engines for redundancy. Boeing did offer a 787 as a possibility to reduce costs, but the availability of the new/unused 747s in storage kind of pushed them back to that.
I mean, it isn't terrible, but it is very generic. You could paint out the presidential seal and USA lettering, and it could be from any short term aircraft leasing company.
I always liked about 75% of these, the body is mostly attractive, but the need to incorporate the traditional Rolls-Royce grille really compromised the front end.
Yes, it fit with Corniche, named after the cliff roads around Monaco.
$23,300, + transatlantic shipping, + a whole new body shell, + all the assembly/paint/restoration/drivetrain rebuild costs - the final price tag on this is going to be eye watering.
Yeah, but this one explosion represents 1/3 of all hydrogen stations in Norway. How many times has 1/3 of all gasoline/diesel stations in the country exploded in a single day?
Norway doesn’t buy any oil from Texas. They pump their own, lots and lots of their own.
Luc Donckerwolke, former design director for Bentley, Audi, and Lamborghini; and Peter Schreyer, also formerly of Audi and Volkswagen, are the two in charge of styling for Hyundai-Kia-Genesis.
Its only 2 years old, I refuse to replace them until the 3 year mark.
Whatever the rationale, basically everything Kia builds right now is making Toyota, Honda, and Nissan’s latest efforts look like hot garbage in comparison. I mean, I was behind someone in a new Forte sedan in a beautiful bluish color, and was really surprised by just how good it looked compared to the Civic.
If you were to draw a Venn diagram of the two, there would be a huge overlap.
Well, I mean, there is the issue of the amount of energy it requires to separate, and we can build nuclear reactors anymore, and natural gas is pretty clean, but still produces CO2.
There's actually a large and growing business for market research firms to study those sorts of customers (of which I think I am), in order to determine whether a new product is going to appeal to the wrong people before it goes on sale, so it can be stopped before too much money is lost. Contrarian tastes, basically.
There’s a certain segment of the market manufacturers have learned is not big enough to be worth catering to. If your tastes are just slightly too far out of the mainstream, forget it. The fast food menu items you like will be discontinued, stores won’t stock your beer, the tv shows you watch get canceled, and the…
Remember, we want to see ya in a McShouty Kia.
And this again follows Hyundai tradition of not looking as good as its Kia platform mate, despite being almost the same price and almost identical under the skin.
No, and the fact that Kia has traditionally had better/more elegant styling than the supposedly more uplevel Hyundai has never really made sense either.