As much as I love that rant, Chewie doesn’t live on Endor. He’s from Kashyyyk and lives on the Millenium Falcon, so I’m convicting, dammit!

More room for all the crap cops carry now. Most highway patrol cars have AEDs, well equipped med kits, plus a rifle, body armor, and all sorts of other stuff.

To be fair, those are beyond the control of the railroad. If this latest accident was caused by signalling problems, then the responsibility is their’s alone.

I don’t think that thing could get a running start if it needed one.

Two of my coworkers have them and, amazingly, like them. I’m not sure why.

Came for this comment, wasn’t disappointed.

The G1000 pretty much owns the market these days. Garmin did a great job making the system modular and adding all the features a private pilot could ask for, and then some.

My first job out of college was with an avionics company. Most of the processors they used were state of the art in the early-to-mid 90's for this very reason. Those processors were proven reliable over tens of thousands of hours and widely varying temperature conditions, which was way more important than processing…

They’ve been around long enough that VW has worked the major bugs out of them. Just be sure to change the transmission fluid (I think that’s what it’s referred to as - they have liquid cooled clutches) when required. That’s an expensive service, but it’s really expensive if you don’t and the trans fails.

On the early ones, closing the trunk hard left a mark on the bumper cover. Mopar quality!

Well, that sucks badly for them. I still think they should have restricted the MultiAir to a special fuel economy edition, like Ford’s 1.0L I-3 Ecoboost is, and pushed ahead the 2.4L, but I understand the logic a bit better now.

Ford’s double clutch was a mess for several reasons:

That’s a great design concept, but I question it’s long term durability. At last years NY International Auto Show, the Mopars were the only cars that had seriously scratched and scuffed plastic by the end of the week*, but all of the 200s they had on display had broken center consoles. While the average user won’t…

Everything about including the 1.4 MultiAir in the initial launch was dumb. It was marketed as the high power and high efficiency option, but it’s a peaky, laggy little engine even with the stick, and placed in a heavy car. The dual clutch automatic wasn’t great when it finally arrived, either. People who wanted ‘the…

Mediocre. The steeply raked rear glass limits how large an item you could put back there without putting the seats down.

This will get dirty in about 5 minutes AND it looks silly with the black airbag cover. Give me all black so it wears well or all beige so it blends.

I’m 26 and I want that hat.

Jet powered snow blowers are common in the US, they’re usually a bit less...improvised though:

I’m pretty sure MkIII Ross’ couldn’t be reassembled wrong. Ian at Forgotten Weapons has a video detailing the issue, and he does a demo of what happens when you do disassemble the bolt wrong on an earlier Mark. C&R Arsenal also has a great video that goes into further depth on the development of the Ross if you have…

The rarity of new production 8x56R - and the kick, oof! - scared me off of buying a M95. They were so cheap for a while there, but I couldn’t bring myself to buy one. I had two K31s and a K11 and they spoiled me for straight pulls. You’re right that GP11 is nearly gone, and the Prvi isn’t any cheaper than .303, so…