I was dating a girl who lived and worked down in the Northern Neck of Virginia back in the mid 2000s. I was living and working in Baltimore at the time, so I’d make a trip down about every other weekend or so to see her. Her grandmother lived just outside DC in a Senior community called “Leisure World” during the…

Coup is the best bet for everyone. ROK/US don’t really want to have to deal with the economic and humanitarian nightmare that an invasion would bring. Not so much the danger of Seoul being obliterated by the hundreds of thousands of artillery tubes pointed at it as the sheer weight of having to bring the people of the…

I love that Baltimore gets used so much in this article. When I moved there for work back in the mid 2000s, the cost of insuring my Subaru Impreza 2.5RS cost as much as the car payment did every month. No lie. Car payment was $350, insurance through both Geico AND Progressive was $350. It was only later that I…

This. Subaru (manufacturer of the FRS engine) straight up states in the service manual that the 7500 mile mark is under optimal conditions. Straight highway travel with low temperature variance and crisp, clean air. I don’t know about you, but my 2.5 boxer definitely doesn’t see that kind of use where I live. That’s…

I mean, I can agree with the dude. Mapquest once sent me walking directions right through the most white-trash neighborhood I’ve ever seen in Sacramento from my hotel to a shop I wanted to visit when I was in college. I thought for sure I was going to be pitbull food or hit over the head with a tire iron for my…

So where does this leave Sonic Drive-In in regards to the fact that they’ve unapologetically been doing the whole hot dog thing in various forms since, well, forever. You can get footlongs, mini-dogs, coneys, chi-town dogs, etc. etc. etc. pretty much any time of the year. Don’t even get me started on the fact that…

0:04 to 0:06. Dude to the viewer’s left of the main gun has a German flag on his right shoulder. Are the Ukrainians so hard up right now that they’re using the same early 90's surplus gear that I use for my yard-work jackets?

Dave’s not here man!

The base engine only produced 110 at the crank at the best of times, but yea, it was not a well maintained vehicle. Dude spent his money mainly on pot.

Depending on where you live? Yes. I had a room mate when I worked at a mid-Atlantic ski resort back in the early 2000s who had a rather old and power-robbed Chevy Celebrity with the LR8 in it. There were days when it would barely make it up the mountain at 10mph. It wouldn’t even do the speed limit on the WV…

Because if you actually go to Ownerguard’s website and look at the coverage details, this particular vehicle would likely be excluded from their better warranties and would only get partial coverage.

Nah, biomass ethanol would require actually growing something, a feat which the DPRK barely manages on a good year. They’re currently at famine levels not seen since “The Arduous March” famine of the 1990s. Their military is notorious for taking all the relief aid and leaving scraps for the regular folk. It got so bad…

Basically what wagnerrp said. Here’s the scientific explanation in long form: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/how…

They occasionally do, but again, tons of transport trucks under the military’s purview are wood-fueled conversions, were talking basic troop and materiel transports, they have enough for showing off, but nothing sustainable.

I hope they’ve been converted to run on wood like many of their ground vehicles, because I guarantee you they don’t have enough fuel to mount any sort of effective air campaign even without the fact that the US and ROK would completely destroy any airframes that actually did make it into the sky.

I hope you aren’t insinuating that the Chinese didn’t do more than provide funding and aid during the Korean War, because they definitely committed military forces in that sucker. We (UN Forces) had it all wrapped up before they sent the PLA in as “volunteers.”

I was thinking the same thing, the gun stabilization systems in these things have come a long way since the 80's but that’s a hell of a slide to compensate for. Just look at all the bounce in the barrel.

Thanks for the info! That helps a ton! How has yours been as far as cost to maintain? Are Volvos pretty easy going with maintenance, or are the like other Euro imports that cost an arm and a leg (Audi for example) for regular interval stuff?

So, shopping for a new car for the wife. We’re buying about this time next year but she’s made up her mind that she wants:

If you really want your mind to be blown, you need to go dig out an old Commodore 64 and buy the cassette tape release of the GUNSHIP album: