I agree on the "Escalades are for..." part for sure! I was just trying to compare Caddies to Caddies is all ;)

They usually wait a bit for two reasons.

Caddy screwed the pooch back in the late 80's and 90's for far too long to get younger people REALLY interested in buying one. Same goes for Buick and, to some extent, Lincoln. I mean, I know the CTS and ATS are powerful luxury beasts, but even at that steep of a discount, I'm not going to buy one because:

I love how much of the Russian language is simply a transliteration of the rest of the western world's words for modern things. "Market" in Russian is "рынок" (rynok) therefore minimarket should be мини-рынок (mini-rynok), but no, they just transliterate it for a whole new word to be added to the lexicon.

It was absolutely the right weapon for the time. We knew we would never be able to stop a concentrated Soviet advance through the Fulda Gap, so our only option was to make it so costly for them that we'd slow them down and give NATO time to respond and dig in defensively. The Germans were practically begging for us to…

I came here to say this.

Maybe not, but people who had roughly his job at different banks said the same thing about all sorts of securitization that happened before the economy imploded in 2008.

The two best mods (IMHO) are "Stalker: SoC Complete 2012" which basically fixed all the bugs of the vanilla version and added in some nice treats and "Stalker: Lost Alpha" which recreated all of the levels and missions cut from the original game. It is a complete re-build and you don't even need the original game to…

Repairs came into the series by Call of Pripyat at the latest. I never really got into Clear Sky, so they may have been there too. The "Lost Alpha" mod (a must play for anyone who played Stalker: SOC in it's original 'vanilla' configuration) also includes weapon damage and repair.

The root, I think, of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series' success is that it's less about managing resources and more about managing time. Yes, you need food, but the hunger countdown in SoC is far more generous than most survival games.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is the first of three S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games released by Ukrainian developer GSC Game World. The series is loosely based on an old Russian sci-fi novella Roadside Picnic. On its 2007 release, Shadow of Chernobyl was a buggy, janky experience. After months of patching, however, the…

DC area resident with a '12 Legacy and let me tell you, despite the fact that I was sure footed and could make it anywhere I damn well pleased, nobody else could, so it was pretty worthless outside of keeping me out of a ditch. It'd have been different if the OPM had canceled work, and the school districts did what…

I met and spoke with Chuck Williams back in 2001 while on an intercession in CA during my time in culinary school. This is EXACTLY the type of thing he'd say. He was a straight-to-the-point hard-ass and ornery to boot! He'd probably give Chuck Yeager a run for his money in that department.

Or do you automatically discount it?

Shit, if COIN is what we need to focus on, then you should be advocating replacing the entire airforce with a bunch of Alouette III's, C-47's and Cessna Skymasters a la the Rhodie Fireforce doctrine. I've heard the UAV line time and again, but what we've learned from mistakes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Yemen is…

I'm sure someone somewhere has already said it, but the UAZ is simply awesome. Just youtube some videos of the treks they do in the Siberian wilderness with those things.

Not retarded, in fact, I'd argue that anyone who uses that word in a conversation about the looks of vehicles online is, in fact, the one lacking in mental fortitude. Also, I am well aware of the bug-eye WRX wagon. Did I ever say there wasn't one? Nope! I just said that the hawk-eye is an ugly fucking car, which it…

Yeah, the 2.5RS was the hidden gem for people who really liked to be connected to the road. I wish they'd bring a NA sport/sporty sedan or coupe back, but I doubt the will. They've got the BRZ to fill that role now. It's just too bad it's not a true Subie. Heck, the 2.5RS would do things that most other cars its size…

Yeah, my cousin was looking at something with AWD/4WD as she lives in Pittsburgh. I encouraged her to look at a Forester or Impreza hatch, but when she saw the CrossTrek, she was hooked. Honestly, it works for her. I'm not a fan of them, but they aren't ugly per-se, and they're still useful. I encouraged my wife to go…

Philistine!!!!