Yeah, I’m almost certain the m4 had no air-conditioning, and no windows in any meaningful sense. But a good daily driver for Kabul.

That Star Trek uniform Kellyanne is wearing--I've never seen one with a butterfly on it before. Which series is she cosplaying?

Take a look at the premature engine failure stats for BMW. How many Volkswagens make it much past 100,000 miles?

Tom Tjaarda!  Did the original Fiat 124 as well as a should of other beautiful cars. The C2 is the best-looking Corvette in general, but the Tjaarda version avoids the C2's hideous front end.

Pretty sure he meant corona viruses in general, not this particular one.

Oh dear.

Barley dressed biker chicks

I know. Banks was unique.

As a GSV, I’m sure you would have thought that one through.

I think by the time you’re born in 1964 you’re generation X with a head start.

I think we all like nice, smooth landing strips.

What did doom seaplanes is that taking off and landing on water is more hazardous than doing from land, corrosion is less of an issue on landplanes, and as the article says everyone built shitloads of airports during WWII so that they could all bomb each other, or support their troops shooting each other.

The engineering content I crave is that practical variable pitch propellers have been around since 1932, long before carpenters started on the coffin for flying boats according to hartzellprop.com (unfortunately the combination of Kinja and Android won't let me paste in a link, but I'm going off their blog entry from…

Or a chopped and channeled Hyundai Velostar.

This is not getting nearly as many likes as it deserves.

One thing that might be truly useful would be drive-on high-speed rail. Drive your car onto a train, get moved city to city at 170mph, drive off and do your thing. Most American cities have appalling public transit, which makes taking to train between them a hassle.

Can second the value-keeping, especially hatches. Remember Subaru quit making hatchback WRXs after 2013 or 14. A low mileage, non-hooned example would be worth quite a bit more than 15 grand. Also, pretty sure that era's WRXs have more like 265hp. You're talking about a 3200lb car, and they move right along.

Fucking Jaguars. It's either the electrical system or the engine flying off.

English Electric Lightning had supercruise, but sucked down so much fuel without afterburners that it really didn't matter.

Hmm. Aircraft turbos can keep making full boost at increasing altitude until the intercooler can’t keep up. They don't seem to have a problem with that.