That would be pretty cool, although HD and particuarly beyond-HD production can go the other way and end up making everything seem like it's made of injection-molded plastic. (Looking at you, Hobbit movies.) But then the '80s were made of injection-molded plastic, so maybe that would be just the thing.

I'd love a modern-production-values revamp of Airwolf. I'm a little puzzled that it hasn't happened, I mean, all that sinister-government-agency-is-sinister bullshit they lumbered the Knight Rider remake with so uselessly would fit right in there. Airwolf was always about a sinister government agency that was sinister.

>>That generation of the GM F-body
>
>I feel like we lost a sentence here?

Oops. Not sure how that happened. "was far enough ahead of its time, styling-wise, that it went almost immediately timeless."

>> (or the new new Camaro, which is hot)
>
>The 2017? I've been eyeing it because I'm going to be buying a new car
>in the next six months, and it is indeed smoking... but I can't
>justify spending 28 large on a car. Especially since I'm told you
>really need the manual to fully enjoy driving a Camaro (or any other
>sports car) and I don't drive stick and have no real desire to learn.

That's true, but not as true now as it used to be. The car I just bought (which I suppose I should introduce sometime soon) has a DSG gearbox in it, which is a sort of... automatic manual, I guess you'd call it... and it's not quite as much fun to drive as a proper stick, but it's miles better than the fluid-link slushboxes of old. Modern computerized automatics, even a properly trained CVT, can also be a pretty decent experience nowadays.

The real downside to the Camaro in the Northeast is that, inexplicably, Chevrolet still isn't offering an all-wheel-drive version. (I say inexplicably because it's based on the GM Alpha platform, the same as the Cadillac ATS, and that is available with AWD, so why not the Camaro?) There again, modern computerized rear-wheel-drive cars, with their elaborate traction and stability control systems, are not the automatic ticket to the ditch that RWD sports cars of old were in inclement weather, but they still take a particular set of skills, skills acquired over the course of a long career, skills that—no! Sorry. Skills, anyway, that most drivers nowadays don't have and aren't really interested in developing.

That said, I came within a handsbreadth or so of buying one recently; about the only reason I didn't (apart from a certain mistrust of post-bankruptcy GM's quality control) was because, though I'm confident that between my own abilities and those of the newfangled cars, I could've kept myself alive commuting to grad school in the winter with one, my parents weren't so sanguine. And though they are not technically the bosses of 43-year-old me, why make them worry? (Besides, I ended up getting such a good deal on the car that I bought, it would have been literally stupid to buy any other one. More on this later, probably.)

Anyway, the next time I'm up for a new car will be right in the sweet spot for my midlife crisis, so. :)

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