Great intel. I didn’t know I needed to know that. That’s fun

Subaru is bringing out a three row replacement for the late Tribeca, a vehicle that puzzled me in that it had two shrunken rows aft of the front seats, suitable only for groceries. So you could wait for that.

The progenitor of this car class is, I think, the AMC Eagle: a 4wd station wagon with a somewhat higher ground clearance.

Looks like my 2010, but a bit bigger and Subaru has done away with the spectacularly confusing media labels (I still do not understand PTY/CAT, although it is fun to say “pity cat”).

But it’s so funny! Anyway these things are only driven by Bond villains and the trust fund spawn of oligarchs, fit only to donate organs

Do you guys find wings and stuff on a Civic attractive, aesthetically?

My sense of President Trump (ah ha ha ha oh my god...oh my god) is that he wants to stomp ISIS and then get America out of the World Police biz as much as possible. I see this as an American military that is actually contracting rather than growing, albeit with modernized gear and better veteran services so actual…

That’s so mean! Subarus are sexy! Ok, they are not sexy. At all. But they can get you to sexy places in bad weather, so...I like them

THAT’s a Micra...? It doesn’t look like an inverted bathtub!

We had a 1990 Voyager to haul around ourselves and les enfants. I miss the versatility of 7 seats. The size was also right. Compared to today’s massive vehicles, it was easy to drive and park.

That does look great. I miss the idea that you should be able to easily look out of the windows of a vehicle.

Maybe a tiny cockpit in a bubble window up high, with HUDs all around, and periscope cameras for all-around view. No need to make a cubical cab. Fly by wire, no direct link to the front wheels (which might not be the only wheels that steer in a futuristic rig.) It could be an egg-shaped polymer shell for max…

You’re thinking about it because the idea is just so darn intriguing! It is like getting a glimpse of the future. Lots of details to work out, lots of tech we don’t even have yet (hows aboot some aerodynamic/solar panel charging fabric that rolls over the trailer like a swimming pool cover?) but the idea of the…

Yes, GM tries stuff but inherently they are in the internal combustion business. Tesla deliberately committed to all-electric to focus themselves as builders and the public to orient heir brand in the marketplace. It’s not that GM was wrong to experiment but they couldn’t be free to sell a vehicle that demonstrates…

Hey, I want those technologies. It’s not like he actually builds everything like Tony Stark, he inspires, cajoles, and probably hectors the people he hires to build these things he wants. If EM takes an interest it is a good thing.

I’ve wondered about that since test driving a Tesla S 85 Normalish Power Version. The not-a-salesman encouraged me to stomp my right foot down. My wife, daughter, and I let out a combined 300 decibels of screech as our heads snapped back simultaneously into the white leather seats. I’d never felt acceleration like…

They had Chevys in Winter Soldier. BW drove a Corvette, Nick had some kind of SUV thingie, and if memory serves, BW and Cap stole a Silverado.

True but maybe the F35 teething issues shows that, at least for this plane, it would have been better to stick to one thing. Modularity is all well and good, I guess, but all of the variants have the fattish profile to accommodate the Marine version, so how modular was it in the end?

And the B variant, in my understanding, is the best part of the F35. There are other fighters, even other stealthish fighters, but VSTOL makes it an extremely handy tool. I kinda wonder if it should be exclusively produced in that variant.

Not to derail this convo, but aren’t you sort of raising a question about why there is a separate Air Force at all? Operationally, all forces have to coordinate and from a funding perspective, it is all the same to the taxpayer.