off topic, but is that (Dr.) Sassinak as in the sci-fi space captain lady??

Victory by Design is amazing, i have some pirated copy somewhere deep in the hard drive, i wish i had a higher quality version, its so so good!

Good for them, although kind of a waste of all that Rocky Mountain water (unless brewed at their NC location).

If you don’t like our healthcare system why don’t you just be rich enough to afford good healthcare?

Wouldn’t the Explorer be the Ford competitor? not the Expedition? exterior dimension-wise the Explorer is 2 inches longer, the Expedition is over a foot longer. 

Good point. Taurus was actually changed to the Ford 500 at one point, but i’m guessing they changed it back because no one knows WTF a 500 is, and the Taurus name had been around forever. In the end, they both died at the hands of the CUV-pocalypse.

You just have to look at the name. Ford Cars start with an “F” (Focus, Fusion, Fiesta), Ford CUVs start with an “E” (Escape, Edge, Explorer). 

Lots of them fly without incident. The local aerodrome near me flies several WWII vintage planes during the summer, and they undergo heavy maintenance during the off season. Stuff like this happens, whether the plane is old or not.

I feel the need, the need for Lockheed!

had to be. 

Y’all might be surprised at how much time and effort goes into placing your rearview mirror on the windshield. All sorts of engineering involved to meet field of view targets and make sure you can see ahead of you, and behind, as well as making the thing look good, and then some doofus goes and hangs an air freshener,…

Automakers go to alot of trouble to make sure you have an unobstructed view of the road, such as placing mirrors and windshield trim covers out of your Field of View. Engineers spend hours of time and money on this, and then people go hanging shit in the way, air fresheners, roseries, fuzzy dice etc. Its frustrating,…

I’ll take a Muldoon Clever Girl Edition...

The advantage is vertical space my dude. That bike just plops over the back in a truck, instead of having to remove the front wheel and stuff it into your outback. 

Packaging a spare in the front of a modern car, even an EV would be a nightmare. You people want a frunk, you want AC that cools you, you want Heat that heats you, you want batteries that don’t overheat, 12000 ftlbs of instant torque, good crash rating and a million other bells and whistles, AND you want a spare tire…

That’s nice, but can we talk about how they’re making everything smaller but the prices aren’t changing? Things that used to be 16 oz are now 14 oz, but cost the same. We’re getting fewer chips in a bag, fewer cookies in a pack, smaller canned goods, its infuriating.

the appeal of a smooth-running junky bike I couldn’t care less about

Your not wrong, but “Ford” could be replaced with any other OEM (or large company in general) and the sentiment would be the same. 

Fellow “west of Detroit” resident here, and i can tell you no one outside of Big 10 sports knows what Ann Arbor is, i usually have to say Detroit Area to give people an idea. You are not a Detroiter, but you’re not NOT a Detroiter...

That last little bit about alignment is interesting. Looking at a map of Detroit the road alignments look super funky. There was an article on here a few years ago with an old timey movie explaining it, but its fascinating how city planning changes through time.