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Top Gear tests the new Ford Fiesta... thoroughly.

radx says...

At the end of the shopping mall segment, it's Klazz Brothers & Cuba Percussi, 'Air'. The beach assault on the other hand was supplemented by Tchaikovsky's '1812 Overture'.

>> ^calvados:
I think I used to know this, but what's the name of the classical piece at the end?
/was_considered_smart_once

Help! Extremist Canadian kidnappers FORCED me to post this!

MycroftHomlz says...

I have heard that before...

>> ^littledragon_79:

From wikipedia:
The Canadian colonies were thinly populated and only lightly defended by the British Army. Some Americans believed that many in Upper Canada would rise up and greet a United States invading army as liberators. The combination suggested an easy conquest, as former president Thomas Jefferson seemed to believe in 1812, "the acquisition of Canada this year, as far as the neighbourhood of Quebec, will be a mere matter of marching, and will give us the experience for the attack on Halifax, the next and final expulsion of England from the American continent."

Help! Extremist Canadian kidnappers FORCED me to post this!

littledragon_79 says...

So it was the Canadians that did all that and not the British?

Also...
From wikipedia:
The Canadian colonies were thinly populated and only lightly defended by the British Army. Some Americans believed that many in Upper Canada would rise up and greet a United States invading army as liberators. The combination suggested an easy conquest, as former president Thomas Jefferson seemed to believe in 1812, "the acquisition of Canada this year, as far as the neighbourhood of Quebec, will be a mere matter of marching, and will give us the experience for the attack on Halifax, the next and final expulsion of England from the American continent."

I guess the U.S has a long and rich history of underestimating and poorly planning foreign conflicts. Dubya is just upholding a time honored American tradition.

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