That’s how I read it too.  Charity offers to negotiate, Ferrari ignores them and files suit saying it’s theirs because Ferrari.

Or they could just call it the TPR, which is the abbreviation for a horse literally named the Italian Heavy Draft. Of course, they could be insufferable and try to use the full name somehow, Cavallo Agricolo Italiano da Tiro Pesante Rapido

But A Merlin engined land Rover?   Not terrifying at all.

I just hope for a similar compromise.

Entitled asshole car company that makes cars for entitled assholes, acts like an entitled asshole. Details at 11

More than that, I’m delighted. In Fridley Minnesota in 2010, a loud pipes shop opened about 600 feet from my house. It drew bikers from miles around. All hours of the spring summer and fall, they’d open the throttle on the 60 MPH highway adjacent to the store and half a black from my house. You couldn’t sit outside…

Its like watching all the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.’s go out of business.

This slow death is 100% self inflected. HD has done everything they could to make sure that they will not be saved

And you might have seen the successor to the TB21 (named, creatively, the TD21) in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, driven by Jim Prideaux:

I choose my words well and called it a Buell trait because that was commonly used on Buell bikes. Clearly none of these ideas are new but at the time these idea were not in common use on other road bikes.

Nailed it.

Not sure why but I preferred the CR headlight setup though

The Ulysses!

You mean the 146hp Rotax powered Buell 1125R?

They’d never get their own dealers to buy in on this. The biggest hindrance that HD has to change and renewal is their own dealers. They are assholes who actively deride the customer base. And the old guys seem to lap it up, because... I have no idea because why, but they do. It turns new customers off though, even…

That, and it would require Harley dealers to want to sell something like this.

This strategy would take longer than two quarters of earnings to implement. Impossible in today’s corporate environment.

I actually feel the same about hovercrafts myself, having been on a giant one ferrying vehicles back and forth as a small child. Ever since then, I’ve had a huge fascination with propellers/thrust fans - hovercraft, GEV, airboat, autogyro, helicopter, ship, you name it.

We learnt in ground school that it’s the helicopters ugliness that makes the earth reject them.

There’s a google street view of it. Here’s some quick snippets from Google maps.