A 2017 Ford Mustang 2.3 Ecobost starts at 710,000 NOK here in Norway. That would be 90,000 USD. Ford Norway plans to sell 90 of those and 10 of the V8. The latter will be twice that price. Horsepower and consumption are punished hard here.
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It is important to notice that our friends in the air tried to shoot up the same tower in 2009. Luckily I spent my time in our Air Force inside a concrete bunker inside a mountain.
GM could have sold it in Europe. Opel have no premium wagon to compete with Mercedes E-class, Audi A6 and BMW 5-series. But the few that got here had gasoline engines, and not the exciting 3.6, but the rather dull 3.0. In Europe, in this segment, you need diesels.
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The Marines should have trained some more, as they blocked our only highway leading north from Trondheim for 4 hours today after driving a truck, a humwee and a salvage truck in the ditch on somewhat snowy conditions:
Comparing events that are closer related in time is allways better if you want to highlight a point. Attacking USA over the failed ocupation of Iraq is easy. Using examples from WW2 is very difficult, because then you have to take into acount stuff like what Germany and Japan were doing in their ocupied territories.…
Bombs did indeed defeat nazism, but Marshal Help won the peace. The “peace” that the russians have made in Caucasus, by flattening large parts of Tchetnya and instating war lords all over, have not won them any new friends. USA won a generation of friends in Western Eropean and Eastern Asian Politicians after WW2 by…
And those are good rules. We spent a hundred years making those rules, from the first fledeling conventions, through the Haag-conventions until the Geneva-convention. Sadly - after several generations of part home grown, part wars fought by proxy, in the Middle East during the Cold War, the even more unruly post cold…
Up until my early adulthood, we just paved old goat tracks here in Norway and gave them 50 mph speed limits. They were (are...) curvy, but never stopped us from speeding or wanting to kill all the tourist driving terrified in the middle of the 1 1/2 lane “main roads”. Falling rocks and our fjords tugging away at…
No tip, but my neighbour has two Tesla S. They are relative cheap here in Norway due to very low taxes on electric cars. I think he paid 75,000 USD for his latest. A gasoline powered car with the same horsepower would be double that due to taxes. Cars are rather expensive here...
As for short - after the viking/norse age in which there were war constant - the scandinavian countries that evolved fought wars in along the following main lines of interest:
You mean military history or history in general of Denmark/Scandinavia?
What is important to remember is that up until the late 18th century nations did not realy exist. You were part of a family or a village, to a much lesser degree or not at all, a country. What the map shows is families and military dictators fighting over land. The American Independence War and The French Revolution…
Denmark, for a short period of time the Kalmar Union and then Denmark-Norway for 400 years, were at war or preparing for war constantly up until 1813. After that Denmark had its most bloddy war all time in 1864. Denmark-Norway and Sweden were probably the two countries in Europe during the 17th and 18th century who…
I do remember that the very first military study I ever read was about how useless those big aircraft carriers would be for helping protect NATOs northern flank in the early stages of a Soviet Invasion. That if they were to go so close to combat zones that their planes could reach those zones and still have fuel to…
For most parts I agree with you about the difficulties fighting a dissatisfied people. I will just add two points: 1) In many wars and most modern ones, guerilla groups tend to get supplies from outside. 2) Today’s great powers does have moral limitations that for instance Nazi Germany or The Roman Empire, did lack.
As I long time NATO ally, I must say few administrations have done more to blacken USAs image abroad. They were an utterly failure in handeling the events of September 11th 2001. Their wars were failures. They adminstrated a failed coupation of Afghanistan. A failed ocupation of Iraq. The world is a more unsafe place…
Norwegians emigrated to Iceland Because of the mild climate there. And yes, Maine have had worse winters than both Iceland and Norway the last two years. But bearable. North Dakota was someThing else altogether. ND was like very dark, cold and snowy. And no People.