Anybody wanna see a ship sink?
Srsly.
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From: Kalamazoo
Re: Anybody wanna see a ship sink?
You guys are acting like this was GPS, or airbags, or anything else that actually mattered as a breakthrough with a car.
It's a gas cap. Seriously. And you attempt to exxagerate the R&D resources that were used to develop this, I bet if we had the numbers in front of us we would laugh...I would be very surprised if it was less than $200,000 just to come up with it and design the prototype.
It's a gas cap. Seriously. And you attempt to exxagerate the R&D resources that were used to develop this, I bet if we had the numbers in front of us we would laugh...I would be very surprised if it was less than $200,000 just to come up with it and design the prototype.
EDIT: GPSs matter? I always thought those were a ego, status symbol thing. Who needs one to get to work, Taco Bell and then back home? And before you say it, I know they're best suited for road trips, but a $.25 map is better than a $2,000 navigation system that needs to be updated every quarter. And yes... I'm mostly hating anyways. It would be fun to play with.
Last edited by Brock Obama; Aug 9, 2006 at 01:01 PM.
Drink Up, Chumps
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From: Palm Beach Gardens
Re: Anybody wanna see a ship sink?
Srsly.
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Drink Up, Chumps
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From: Palm Beach Gardens
Re: Anybody wanna see a ship sink?
Have fun with changing your fuel filter twice as much because you push down debris into your fuel tank everytime you put gas in your car loser.
Srsly.
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Re: Anybody wanna see a ship sink?
I only read the first five pages, but regardless. Any car is unsafe, whether properly tested for safety or not. I saw a Jaguar XJ6 FLIPPED down Damneck Rd. (sp?), it was a flat, straight road with a 55mph speed limit. Any company that makes a car that can surpass a 75mph speed limit is unsafe. I sware at leas 75% of the people I see in vehicles on my 8mile drive home from work are on cell phones, which IMO plays a HUGE part in peoples ability to think while driving.
Yup, jolly poopbuggy
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Re: Anybody wanna see a ship sink?
I understand they haven't been there forever and that they don't choose to put the warnings there. So by this logic, should Ford (or any company for that matter) put a warning on a Pinto that says If you get rear ended in this vehicle there is a 85% chance you'll die in a fire ball.? How many Pintos would have sold?
Yup, jolly poopbuggy
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From: Hampton, VA
Re: Anybody wanna see a ship sink?
Oh really!?! So how long have cigarettes and alcohol been around? And when did we in the US start to actually make regulations towards discloser for those industries? I'm quite sure that most of you weren't even alive. I remember when back in the 50, 60 or 70's when smoking was cool and was to some degree encourage. To top it off, I bet that you didn't even know that they used cartoons to entice younger children that smoking was cool.
What, did you really think that the winston cup in nascar was named after a guy or something?
No, the feds had to step in and make the tobaco industries stop advertising first on the tv...then in cartoon ads...then magazines & billboards and finally your beloved cars/teams in racing and nascar.
I might also add that the tobaco companies purposely did not inform the general public about any of the dangers...blah, blah blah.
S-T-F-U
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From: Isle of Wight "trash"
Re: Anybody wanna see a ship sink?
Are you guys still beating this dead horse? Holyshit this stupid fucking thread is going to go on forever. Get over it Ford people toyota is taking over the auto industry, and as soon as Wal-mart starts making cars they will crush all. Soon we be sending Wal-mart employees over to Iraq, because Wal-mart knows how to win a war.
