@OA 5599: I was driving to get lunch one day during the summer I worked in Princeton, NJ. I stopped at a light (in my 1997 range rover) and a prius stopped next to me. The woman driving looks up at me (through her sunroof), and says "you're killing the enviro-ment!" I responded with "look up the life cycle of those…
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For the sake of unbiased comparison, here's the unmodified car.
This is really making me want to gray market import an alfa. There's something to be said for a car that literally no one else in the entire country has...
@ColonelGentleman: [www3.telus.net] Indeed. thankfully by 1997 the prince of darkness was slowly being replaced by Bosch in Land Rovers, so my car hasn't had many electrical gremlins... *knocks on every available wood surface*
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this... oh wait..."
I'm surprised US customs didn't make them wash the dirt off. They stopped me at the airport coming back from Italy once, forced me to surrender my shoes, and scrubbed them clean before returning them. Trying to keep hoof & mouth out of the country.
Ugh. I thought the cube was bad but they've just redefined awful design. I'm having a hard time picturing the scale; are they bigger or smaller than a smart car?
@darngooddesign: My friend has a previous generation xB. I'm not a huge fan of the styling but the interior is capacious.
@uncleben: I thought the same thing.
@snapoversteer 'bout to get told: In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey, butane in my veins and I'm out to cut the junkie with the plastic eyeballs spray paint the vegetables, dog food stalls with the beef cake pantyhoze, kill the headlights and put it in neutral; stock car flamin' with a loser at the cruise…
This reminds me of the episode of Pete & Pete where their dad finds an olds cutlass wagon buried in the sand on the beach, just using his metal detector. #porschecayman
It looks like a cross between a Muria and a Daytona. A quick google reveals a few of these for sale stateside.... Oh if I had money... I've already got the penchant for destructive car ownership, having been a pre-ford land rover owner for 6 years.
Well that man will never have to buy a drink in a bar ever again. #planelopnik
@snapoversteer 'bout to get told: hrm. Maybe they aired two? I distinctly remember it being 45 minutes but I could be wrong. I also remember flipping around a lot when I found it since I had already seen it. #topgear
@I can be stig?: They're usually between six months to a year behind, and the episodes they show are heavily edited. Their version of the vietnam special cut out all kinds of classic moments, to shoehorn what was a 70 minute episode into the 45 minute american time frame. #topgear
@P161911 probably shoudn't have: I had to go to the mcmaster warehouse in Jersey once to pick up an order. It's quite seriously five times the size of your average neighborhood home depot... from where the will call counter was I could only see aisles 30-125, and they went on and on and on... #howto
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I did a similar thing for my film class, except I drove the entire Garden State Parkway (for the record, one of the roads named in the "top ten worst states to drive across" feature) and sped it up to 6 minutes. #interstate5
A fun road trip game: as cars pass, say their name with the word 'anal' in front of it. Ex. "anal odyssey, anal explorer.." #carnames