This has been an issue in military aviation for decades now. New aircraft comes out, personnel get trained on maintaining aircraft, part breaks before it was “supposed to”, SM&R code says it’s contractor repair only, no contract in place to fix item with contractor because part wasn’t “supposed to break this early”,…

You must be fun at parties...

You only hear complaints because those of us that aren’t cheap ass moochers and enjoy the game are busy playing and enjoying it.

I think the Miata is a POS.

Just for the record to get everyone on the same page. This is NOT a polestar C30. It’s and R Design C30 with a polestar tune. So it’s not that rare. I’d probably be lucky to get that much for my 14 S60 RD with polestar tune and my car has way more options than this does. CP for sure.

“the first such shootdown since America began fighting ISIS there in 2014.”

How do all of you end up with these ridiculous insurance prices? My S60 RD is $67 a month to insure through GEICO in Hawaii. And that was when I was under 25.

They absolutely would have been flying anyway. I work in military aviation in Hawaii. Pilots train everyday. They just got to practice air interdiction instead of what was on the flight schedule. ANG won’t be as active as Active Duty but on the big boy side they fly everyday.

Out of all of that the only portion that can even be remotely considered being “taken out the economy” is cost per hour of operating the jets. Even they it’s a stretch because that money is for parts that a company makes and to pay the maintainers of the aircraft who then take that money into the economy. Money…

Please explain your dollar figures. Last I checked the cost per hour of an F-22 wasn’t greater than say $30,000. So was it flying for 33+ hours or do you just want to admit you have no idea what you’re talking about?

Wow you went from 0 to idiotic political poster real quick. Congrats on accomplishing nothing.

Every car I’ve ever seen had the main VIN where the windshield meets the dash on the driver’s side. Any other VIN is just extra to help aid in finding chopped cars.

This is the attitude I expected all of Jalopnik to have when the first article about this came out. Not Jalops turning on their own and calling them assholes for doing it.

Nothing wrong with what they’re doing. Sounds like you’re the bad apple. Hope you don’t pass your closed minded attitude onto the next generation.

“I’m still mystified as to why Celebrity Brain Crash was still being dragged along.”

Not to offend him but Mike is coming off like a jerk in these transcripts.

You'd be surprised how often it actually happens. Engines, transmissions, gear boxes. They get shipped to the wrong location all the time. The best is when that unit doesn't bother to try to find who it's supposed to go to and it sits there for 3 years until someone actually asks why this is sitting in their storage…

Why? Because of Top Gear mostly.

I clearly said luxury performance in my first post so idk what you're trying to get at there. Secondly, I'll use the rarity argument if I damn well please.

The S/V60 Polestar would like to have a word with you.