The MDX is a completely different platform than the Theta-based Vue so the suspension is likely very different. The 2005 Saturn Vue Redline sported drum brakes out back for example...

I like the car.

I like it. That's all I have. 

You ever listened to an Alfa? Great sounding V6s.

Apparently their lease is ending. I would have thought they owned the property, but apparently not. I will be interested to see what they use for training space going forward, or if they do much in-person training at all from now on. 

Fantastic take. Reasonable miles and a Honda drivetrain seems like a NP, but I just can’t with those mods, especially that deeply stupid shift knob and the muffler delete that just makes it loud for no reason. 

Ah yes, the custom muffler delete. I know exactly what that means: Dylan here showed up to Meineke where his buddy Eddie is a tech. Eddie installed some “custom made” mandrel bends, and just... didn’t put on any mufflers.

Because of the boy-racer mods, I’d usually have long since mashed the No Dice button . . .

I had just graduated high school and was days from leaving for Basic Training when this happened. We had someone in my BMT flight who was from the same high school as the French Club, though he said he didn’t know any of them personally. At that point, it was only a few weeks later, and we had no access to news or…

As someone who is currently alive and respirating when he by all rights shouldn’t be, I have one of the darkest, most macabre senses of humor you’ll ever come across. I gotta say, though, that as on-point and well intentioned as the crack was (it really was, too), it just seems somewhat inappropriate in this instance.

Seriously, screw Icahn. He’s the one who laid the groundwork for Edward Lampert and later Martin Shkrelli by proving asset stripping worked.

Not sure how I feel about them destroying this and moving to fully digital training. Maybe a less famous crash, but getting hands on with a plane wont be replaced with be for a long time.

They weren’t high enough to be instantly unconscious - you can breath just fine at 13,000ft. Some died from the blast, but it is a long way to the back of a 747, and there are lavs and galleys breaking up the space, so I have no doubt people in the tail got to experience a wild ride for a while. I assume the G-forces…

If I remember correctly from the NTSB report, most everyone’s neck was broken by the second explosion (the sudden deceleration) but that some of the passengers survived (unconscious of course) and drowned still strapped in their seats when the plane hit the water. The Nitrogen Inverting systems the planes use has…

Other than the massive inconvenience you experienced that’s a pretty gratifying outcome. The bastards went bust and you got to witness its very essence first hand. 

Jesus Christ.

I was on a TWA flight from Toronto that was to connect in St. Louis. Once we were in the air, we were informed that the washrooms were inoperable and there would be no in flight service because the plane had not had the passenger amenities serviced before takeoff. I’m thinking that meant the tanks were not emptied and…

This crash screwed with my head.  I was around the same age as the French Club that was on the plane going to Paris for a school trip.  I had the picture of their yearbook club photo from the paper and would look at their faces...imagining the horror they went through on what was supposed to be a great time of their…

TWA is gone. The last surviving symbol of this once noble airline (sarcasm here) is being dismantled. And Carl Icahn, the one responsible for TWA’s destruction, is still around.

The Mid Night club in Japan had a code... should anyone die as a result of their high-speed actions, they would disband the club immediately.

Unfortunately, such an incident came to pass, but they stuck to their word. The club, and the high-speed antics, ceased immediately. A few stragglers tried to get it going again,…