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Jesus, Drew. You didn’t even make a passing mention of 1995's “Heat”?!

Packers? That’s easy! You can never go wrong with #15.

Corrupt police ignorant of even the most basic tenets of the Bill of Rights?

You guys have checked on Drew, right? I mean, he’s okay, right? Right ...?

Probably too early, but I’m guessing another RD-180 failure, a lá SpaceX’s Falcon 9 explosion last year. While generally robust, they’ve had past issues with both LOx pump cavitation and MRCV failure. It doesn’t help that literally no one else but Russia’s Soviet-era Energomash is capable of producing heavy-lifting

This. This, right here:

Dammit, Tyler. This means the only reason I’ll come to a Gawker site is for Magary’s poop jokes. Gah! :)

Tyler, first of all, congratulations on your new gig at TheDrive.com!

Ready by 2018, if they wanted to, eh? Hmm, no way that could already be a black-budget reality, huh? Or at least, a very robust tech demonstrator. Maybe somthing that uses a PDE setup, like what’s been seen over northern Scotland and Upstate New York, on rare occassions?

You drink straight seltzer water from the soda fountain and you hate mayonnaise. What planet are you from? Oh, and don’t even get me started about your Vikings fetish. Sheesh!

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Ah, they should’a been running LCARS. I mean, nobody’s better than the late Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, right?

Eh, it’s only half-way “GM.” The drivetrain, chassis, and IP are GM (based on the GMC TopKick/Chevy Kodiak, the dash is that of a Cadillac STS), but the “body” is actually made by Executive Coach Builders of Springfield, Mo. I’ll be interested to see what chassis GM is using now, as the TopKick/Kodiak medium-duty line

That is correct: a GM-Isuzu Duramax diesel and Allison automatic. It’s basically a cut-down and up-armored Chevy Kodiak/GMC TopKick with a “Cadillac” body pasted on.

Why, when you can just make a tactical J-turn?

Aurora, huh?

Please, somebody, call it the Space Ghost!

Top Fuel dragster launch delta-V: ~39 m/s² (4.0 g)

First car was my mom’s ‘90 Chevy Celebrity station wagon. Eurosport station wagon with the Gen 2 LH0 3.1-liter V6. It had been a demo driver at the dealership, and we bought it late summer, when the ‘91s were coming out, so they were trying to liquidate stock.