If they were going to describe a car based on racial stereotypes, wouldn't a Mexican car be able to drive across rivers, jump 30ft. fences and work farm land?

To be fair, Mexicans practically build all the cars now anyway, why not build one of your own. Here's a list of car manufacturers who have cars that are currently built in Mexico: Acura, Audi, Bentley, BMW, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Dodge, FAW, Ferrari, Fiat, Ford, GMC, Honda, Hummer, Isuzu, Jaguar, Jeep, Lamborghini, Land Rover, Lincoln, Maserati, Mastretta, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, Mercury, MINI, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Peugeot, Pontiac, Porsche, Radical, Renault, Saab, SEAT, Smart, Subaru, Suzuki, Toyota, Volkswagen and Volvo. [Wikipedia]

Hasn't anyone heard of off-roading? Not Hummers or Jeeps, but actual off-roading in actual off-road vehicles? A suitably equipped Land Rover could just about do this, I'm sure plenty of army surplus type stuff can do this fine.

when i was in north wales, an raf officer told me they can't drive down certain roads because the local welsh nationalists would throw stones at the british land rover.

just to put that story in perspective.

The numbers in this video are not impressive anyway. The Big 3 have been assembling garbage automobiles for decades, and people finally realized they were getting ripped off. Their deadline to move towards quality is long overdue (the gas crisis was the straw that broke.... the...gas guzzler's tow hitch?). This is supported by the fact that Chrysler, the least affected by escalating fuel prices, was the first to run into trouble - because of their long-standing tradition of poor quality. Same thing happened with Jaguar and Land Rover: poor quality - I don't mean initial quality (they ARE comfy at first)... I'm talking about holding value - overall longterm quality (ie, answering "No" to the question: "Will I be embarrassed to drive this car in 10 years?").

They need to learn how to design and assemble the damn thing correctly the first time, so the consumer isn't pissed off every time they need to replace something, even if it's the small shit: window motor, radiator fan, dashboard backlight and/or the gauges it illuminates, water pump, fuel pump, or some $300 A/C flap thingamajigger that controls air flow between vents which remains working yet makes a terribly irritating noise lasting 32 seconds every time you start or stop the engine.
Clearly, I have digressed, and have absolutely no experience with such matters anyway.

And so it was that with the rise of globalization (and fall of the dollar), foreign companies opened up shop here...
Take for example BMW's impact in Greenville, South Carolina: 23,050 jobs paying $1.2 billion, etc. (source) from one such plant. Where's BMW's whining video?? Where's BMW's bailout?? They don't fucking need one because they do quality work - much like Honda, Nissan, Toyota and all other brands who are devouring Big 3's piece of the pie - and rightfully so.

I recently enjoyed an article about how American car companies can't lease cars anymore because they don't hold their value - when people turned their leases in, the company was stuck with a depreciated piece of shit and lost money by the truckload (no pun intended). So now they only sell them (or lack thereof), sticking the consumer with the piece of shit in 3-5 years, who subsequently will purchase a different brand the next time around - one that will not only run forever (provided they keep the oil changed), but the A/C and power windows will too.

Imagine that: Bush actually got it right when he told them to learn how to compete.
In short, we are witnessing the evolution of an industry in the face of capitalism, the excitement and effectiveness of which will be ruined by a bailout. Sorry for ranting.


And remember - if you see a car approaching with a foglight out, it's made by GM.

Slow zombies are so meh now. If the entire world turned into slow zombies as of tomorrow morning, i'm pretty sure i could live my life relatively unperturbed.

Wake up -> batter parents to death -> land rover/4x4 -> gunshop -> boat -> clear out a small island -> set up a farming system, go back to civilisation for materials if you didn't bring em -> don't forget some porn -> ??? -> profit

The atmosphere and stuff of the film looks good, i'll watch it cos i love disaster films, and hopefully it'll have good acting and atmosphere to make up for the fact that a room full of rabid toddlers who think you're made of sweets would be more difficult to negotiate than a room full of slow zombies.

Seriously. Toddlers are more agile, quicker, cleverer.

Did i mention slow zombies suck?

That's nothing! ask him about the time he duct taped his parrot to the exhaust pipe of a Land Rover to get it into Canada.

> Your diamond is on its way

I hear Dag puts them inside parrots that are duct taped up under Land Rovers and then smuggled to Australia.

The constant wine you hear is the connection strength (Bottom right corner line). so when it dies its over. Mainly because of the atmosphere that's why not to mention its Saturn's moon not the moon. The connection died after about what 44 seconds. Even the best of the 4g wireless cant do that. It was launched on October 15, 1997 and got in orbit of Saturn's moon Titan on July 1, 2004 and the probe was dropped January 14, 2005 and lasted on the surface a total of 44 seconds before connection loss. They drop probes like this before they land rovers if ever. It takes 2 years to get to Mars by the way and yes the ultra high res camera's they have on that have sent back a ton of great pic's and some small video. And there was no colour change mentioned by NASA for this video.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini-Huygens
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_%28moon%29