I like the approach from Red Lodge. It looks like there is no exit from the canyon as it narrows... but then the wisp of a road cut appears and you gasp.

3100+ lbs is not light.

It really makes no sense that they don’t release the i30N here in the US. It’s just so much better!

That IS light for all the safety regulations and features cars have these days to be competitive.  It’s 2019, not 1999.  Grow a brain.   

Ninety percent of the buyers will be middle aged+ men who buy it only for its status and never drive it over the speed limit. For those people, the mid engine layout should be much less likely to break traction on a damp leaf. The ones who drive it like an asshat would also have driven a C7 like an asshat, and at that…

Random photo from 199x taken on the beartooth highway, just outside Red Lodge. I really love that area. I’m from Texas but would jump in the car and drive to Red Lodge a number of times over the years.

Yeah - it "turned" into a parts car.

I still don’t get “Send In the Drones” deal...

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug, I’ve wanted a Intrega Type R back in the 90's but couldn’t. I waited 20 years for a Type R and now I have FK8 in championship white. I hunted and found one at msrp.

Not outside the USA.

My father and uncle were both airline pilots, and would be sad and angry to see how badly Boeing screwed up with this cobbled together mess of a plane. The fact that almost everyone is focusing on the MCAS system instead of the inherent aerodynamic instability of the plane due to the repositioning of the wings and…

Yeah, you run the stats on it?  The 200 was the Gold Standard-- it’s several orders of magnitude safer than the MAX;  the MAX type only managed a few thousand flights with two hull losses and almost 350 fatalities.

Well, from a design perspective, yes it is.

Quite to the contrary - an older model plane that has been tried and tested, that mechanics are familiar with and pilots trust, is much safer than a plane that behaves unpredictably and is unfamiliar to those operating it. 

I mean, it probably is. How many crashes are associated with the -200s that are caused by the plane itself in the past 20 years? Vs the MAX’s?

With a background in aeronautics, control systems, safety systems and embedded real-time control systems I assure you that pretty much everything about the MCAS implementation was fatally flawed. Hopelessly fatally flawed.

Charles Kuralt once claimed it was the most beautiful stretch of road in North America. The man would know and I’m inclined to agree with him.

Or anything aside from a Mitsubishi Mirage. Amirite?

I was joking. 

To be fair, who didn’t think this would happen?