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Jul 10th 2013, 3:55 pm

#151

Ichigo-chan

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Re: Let's talk about cars

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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing

They work for the bullet train, don't they

I, too would like to see hydrogen take off, pun not intended, but the cynic in me does tend to agree with your last statement regarding the oil companies. Since it seems to be the thing for the POTUS to suck the dick of big oil, I suspect bugger all will be done of any real worth until one of them grows some balls.

I note an obsession with cock sucking, interesting.

I don't get the Shinkansen reference btw

Jul 10th 2013, 4:02 pm

#152

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Re: Let's talk about cars

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Originally Posted by Ichigo-chan

I note an obsession with cock sucking, interesting.

I don't get the Shinkansen reference btw

Dafuq are you banging on about?

Jul 10th 2013, 4:05 pm

#153

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Re: Let's talk about cars

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Dafuq are you banging on about?

This one snuck out of TIO, I think.

Jul 10th 2013, 4:06 pm

#154

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Re: Let's talk about cars

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Originally Posted by AmerLisa

This one snuck out of TIO, I think.

Bloody hell, you turn your back for one second ...

Jul 10th 2013, 5:19 pm

#155

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Re: Let's talk about cars

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Bloody hell, you turn your back for one second ...

First you're sucking off, now you're turning around to face the other way...

Jul 10th 2013, 5:25 pm

#156

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First you're sucking off, now you're turning around to face the other way...

Jul 10th 2013, 5:28 pm

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Re: Let's talk about cars

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Originally Posted by RoadWarriorFromLP

Are you unaware of the fact that Tesla spent four years creating a waiting list for the car, while the others did not?

Yes and the first 1000 "Signature" series cars started rolling off the production line last June. Those all got delivered by end of last year. They've just started production on the European Signature series this month.

They are now producing 600 cars a week in CA. That's 30k a year. Not bad for a 10 year old start up company that's challenging conventional ideas about car design and the way the automotive industry does business.

Jul 10th 2013, 5:29 pm

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Originally Posted by Nutek

http://yaypics.smugmug.com/photos/i-...-30%20AM-S.png

Brilliant! Why did nobody think of it before?

Jul 10th 2013, 5:33 pm

#159

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Re: Let's talk about cars

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Originally Posted by Mr Weeze

First you're sucking off, now you're turning around to face the other way...

I know how it must look but I must protest ...

Jul 10th 2013, 5:36 pm

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Re: Let's talk about cars

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This is what happens when the businessman creeps into the domain of the engineer.

Twats.

One of my mates at uni, biggest green hippy on earth really, he's doing massive research for one of the big fuel companies in renewable research. He basically said they paid him way to much money to turn it down with essentially a blank cheque to fund the research compared to what he was getting in academia.

Apart from the only, the only difference was the petrol company owning the patents rather than the university, so no difference to him personally.

Jul 10th 2013, 5:36 pm

#161

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Re: Let's talk about cars

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Originally Posted by Brit3964

..... Not bad for a 10 year old start up company that's challenging conventional ideas about car design and the way the automotive industry does business.

So did Delorean, Saturn, Daewoo, and Fisker. Do you see a pattern?

Last edited by Pulaski; Jul 10th 2013 at 5:39 pm.

Jul 10th 2013, 5:37 pm

#162

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Re: Let's talk about cars

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I know how it must look but I must protest ...

Hey, I'm not judging, each to their own. If it makes you happy and all.

Jul 10th 2013, 5:38 pm

#163

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Re: Let's talk about cars

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Hey, I'm not judging, each to their own. If it makes you happy and all.

I never think these things through.

Jul 10th 2013, 5:38 pm

#164

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Re: Let's talk about cars

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I know how it must look but I must protest.

But does it really have to be a baboon style protest?

Jul 10th 2013, 5:39 pm

#165

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Re: Let's talk about cars

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Originally Posted by Pulaski

But does it really have to be a baboon style protest?

Cars, then. Aren't they brilliant?