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Old Dec 18, 2014 | 09:04 AM
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Thought this was pretty interesting


https://autos.yahoo.com/news/top-5-h...140043597.html


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Cool! Thanks for the share.
 
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^+1. Great read - thanks for sharing!

 
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My understanding is that they had accepted the XA, and were going to purchase and deploy them, but the war ended.
 
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Cool link..thanks. Yeah saw the one at Wheels of Time...that was a cool place.

snip from article: "The first TA’s suffered from a number of problems like extreme vibrations and multiple oil leaks, but HD engineers were able to correct these problems,"...

uh...when did they correct these problems? Still going on today!
 
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