Well, if the US hadn’t sold them those weapons, Europe or Russia would have. So let’s knock it off with the pious whining. The only question to be resolved is where that $110 billion goes.

Ah... the E60 M5 is ugly, it is infested with bad electronics, and the engine is unreliable. It marked a turning point for BMW, and not a good one. Consequently, it has more notoriety value than excellence value.

Ah, the Spitfire. I’m not sure if I remember it fondly for my example that I managed to keep running on a shoestring budget, or the fact that I owned it at a particularly carefree time in my life.

Actually, the Spitfire tended to be more rust free than most other cars of it’s type. In a typical British fashion, this wasn’t by design, it was by chance that the body was laid out in such a manner that tended to discourage the accumulation of dirt and moisture.

Hah... hide your head in your backside, while you’re kissing it goodbye.

Well, that’s a start. A car so bad that it merits a place in an auto show.

Miss my 1980 Fiat Spider. Best girl getting car I ever had... they might stare at the hotrods, but they all wanted to go for a ride in the Fiat. Made you look like a nice guy.

THAAD isn’t in place to stop every mortar shell N Korea might lob over the border.

So, is that from an actual impact, or is that the result of the plastic expanding or contracting? I look at some of those photos, and I don’t see any evidence of impact. And, the dents look the same. I mean, they’re almost identical: same depth, same diameter, same location.

Great... maybe the used ones will drop in price, so my dream is at least a bit more realistic.

So, where is the ‘evidence’ that Russia did this? Russian addresses in the header from when the email was forwarded? Oh, get real. Anyone who could hack the DNC servers would know better than to forward the purloined emails from a site that could be traced back to them. The Russians are expert hackers, they would…

Funny, that the guy was supposed to be a nuclear officer for all those years, and never heard of the ‘two person rule’. Unless the US is on a war footing, any launch must be confirmed by at least one member of the cabinet - the president can’t just walk in and say: fire the sucker. That rule is in place to insure a…

Reality check time. The Khamsin was/is a terrible car. Horridly expensive to maintain hydraulics, not very fast, not very comfortable, and very difficult just to find parts for, let alone someone who can maintain it without screwing it up.

Just coincidence that this happened right as the idiot Americans who went to Iran, oops, hostages, were released. Uh huh.

If Russia hacked the DNC emails, they would not have left Russian addresses in the forwarding email header when the emails were sent to wikileaks.

Actually, the E39 5 series was probably the last truly great car BMW made. They’re fairly reliable, if you take care of problems before they go completely south. Of course, if the CEL light doesn’t light up...

Yep, I got burned on a BMW E90 wagon, though I can now blame myself for not buying a BMW specific code reader. It seemed okay when I got it, but three months later, the water pump failed. To be expected at 100k, I thought. What’s this? The electrical plug is corroded. Should have been a warning. Two months after that,…

You can’t drive them, because it’s way too expensive. Even if you could afford to buy, say, an existing Ford GT at the absurd price of $300k+, you’d not only ding a few grand off every time you drove it, you’d be scared to death of what might happen to it. And what fun would that be? Some years ago, when they got…

No, this would not have worked. Steam engines of that time had a very poor power to weight ratio, which is why they were used only to propel ships, that never climb a hill, and locomotives, whose tracks are never more than around a 5-8% grade. The first hill a steam powered tank encountered, it would have stopped. Not…

What ‘tribe’ am I? I love the ‘forgotten’ cars, the ones you can pick up cheap, spend a fortune on parts, and get passed by a new Civic, like a mid engine Italian exotic for less than the price of a Ford Mondeo.