>> ^chilaxe:

I only have a vague idea what a Firebird is, but I believe it's some kind of automotive vehicle that bestows social status among douchebags.


You're pretty close, but douchebags are more about the Hondas. Firebirds and Camaros are more for the young mullet crowd.

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It's really easy and commonplace to look to the past and say "oh that's just common sense- of course that was the right way to do it."

The truth is that no one was making a phone that was a finger driven multi-touch, all screen "the device is the screen" device.

Now everyone seems to be- and I think that's great. But credit where credit is due. The current crop of smart phones have borrowed heavily from the iPhone in just about every way.


>> ^rottenseed:
Right...and all that really matters is what's under the hood (bonnet). At the end of the day, you have 2 good cars to choose from in your analogy. Google didn't invent the search engine, but what they did with it was revolutionary. It's ok to take an idea and build upon it. Your only comparison seems skin deep. Besides, in my opinion, the iphone's "look" is the lowest common denominator. It's not flashy, it's not sexy...it's a bit slippery though. It's not like they had a revolutionary design. Their design was based on simplicity. Which works. And you can't patent simplicity.>> ^dag:
A closer analogy would be that if everyone was driving motorized trikes -and then someone invents the Ford Mustang. Then all the motorized trike makers decide to start making Camaros.
>> ^rottenseed:
I see the shape is the same...and they're both black. They also both have icons. That's like saying 2 cars are the same because they have 4 wheels, 4 doors, and windows.

Right...and all that really matters is what's under the hood (bonnet). At the end of the day, you have 2 good cars to choose from in your analogy. Google didn't invent the search engine, but what they did with it was revolutionary. It's ok to take an idea and build upon it. Your only comparison seems skin deep. Besides, in my opinion, the iphone's "look" is the lowest common denominator. It's not flashy, it's not sexy...it's a bit slippery though. It's not like they had a revolutionary design. Their design was based on simplicity. Which works. And you can't patent simplicity.>> ^dag:
A closer analogy would be that if everyone was driving motorized trikes -and then someone invents the Ford Mustang. Then all the motorized trike makers decide to start making Camaros.
>> ^rottenseed:
I see the shape is the same...and they're both black. They also both have icons. That's like saying 2 cars are the same because they have 4 wheels, 4 doors, and windows.

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A closer analogy would be that if everyone was driving motorized trikes -and then someone invents the Ford Mustang. Then all the motorized trike makers decide to start making Camaros.

>> ^rottenseed:
I see the shape is the same...and they're both black. They also both have icons. That's like saying 2 cars are the same because they have 4 wheels, 4 doors, and windows.

They trashed Chevy so bad that they wouldn't let them test their new Camaro or whatever it was when they went to America. Hammond had to go to a dealer and buy one so they could test it. Also yeah sometimes they praise cars, it's lovely when they're praising a car I'll never afford in my lifetime. A lot of the time they just shit on cars the X6 was a particularly funny one, they also shit on the X5 so I guess BMW should stick to cars.

I don't watch Top Gear for it's buying advice unless it's testing a car I can afford. I watch it for it's entertainment value, and it really is one of the best shows on television in my opinion.

Damn, now you show this to me. If I'd seen this a week ago I'd have made a 101 year old man in a Camaro costume!

Old people should have to get checked out every few years to see if they're still together enough to be allowed to drive, the only reason they're not is because they're a powerful voting block.

He just finished drinking his Bud at Roscoe's. He jumped in his Camaro, turned up the Ted Nugent and said to himself "I need to kick someone's fuckin' ass"

Next thing he knows, he wakes up on the canvas with people laughing at him and his "slap-fight" debut.

1. I am insecure about the girth of jonny's peni-- er, feet.
2. I started opening bottles with my teeth because I read GIJoe's Barbecue could do it.
3. I was in the US Navy from 1991-1994.
4. The bassist for the Psychedelic Furs took a picture of me at a Swatch party in NY back in 1993 or 94.
5. My favorite number is 9.
6. One of my first jobs in LA was working for Jan De Bont and Lucas Foster.
7. I once got to drive Maria Grazia Cucinotta to her hotel and fell in love instantly!
8. I used to draw my own comics on folded and stapled notebook paper when I was young.
9. My nickname as a child was Bozo.
10. My nickname in the military was Skip because I wore down my knee muscles and limped about.
11. I graduated from North Carolina School of the Arts with a BFA in Filmmaking.
12. I used to be a Christian.
13. I worked as a Special Effects crew member for my internship and made bombs and blew up cars. It was rad.
14. I used to have a thick southern accent.
15. My first car was a 1979 dookie brown Camaro with hubcaps and whitewalls affectionately labeled the brown turd.
16. I wish I would've stayed in the abusive Hollywood machine instead of switching careers to the interactive industry.
17. My bootcamp company made hall of fame.
18. I graduated with a 99.39 average from Naval Training School.
19. I graduated fifteen from the bottom of my class in high school.
20. My buddy and I once conned a chick at a bar in NY into buying us drinks all night because we told her we were talent scouts from Reprise Records.
21. I still have my first skateboard: a hot pink Powell & Peralta Sword and Skull.
22. I own a signed copy of the first appearance of Spider-Man (Amazing Fantasy #15) in pretty shitty quality.
23. I've worked in textile mills off and on from high school through college.
24. I was once an RA, a Head RA and a Summer Counselor in college.
25. I once asked John Ritter if I could call him Jack Tripper. His response, "As long as you don't call me Janet or Crissy."

This is probably some sort of convention. All of the cars will leave at the same time at the end of the day to show the cars one more time. You'll notice the crowd and the Camaro/Firebird (not sure) in the last frame.

I love this movie. Here's the trivia section from IMDB:

* Charlotte Rampling had a role as a hitchhiker whom Kowalski met while en route, but her scenes were deleted before the US release. The scenes were re-inserted for the UK release. The DVD release includes both the US and UK versions.

* The car featured in the film is a 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T, with a 440 cubic-inch V-8, and not a 426 Hemi V-8 (as is often believed). Five white Challengers loaned from the Chrysler Corporation were used during the filming.

* The Challenger had Colorado plates: OA-5599

* There were actually four 440 Challenger R/Ts and one 383 Challenger R/T, which was an automatic with green interior. This one was used for some exterior shots and it pulled the 1967 Camaro up to speed so the Camaro could hit the bulldozers. As confirmed by property master Dennis J. Parrish, all of the cars were NOT originally white. They were just painted white for the film. During the scene where Kowalski has a flat tire, you can see green paint in the dents.

* Cameo: [David Gates] The singer/songwriter (of Bread fame) played the piano during the rousing revival in the desert with the J. Hovah singers.

* The city names on the California Highway Patrol tracking board (where Kowalski never made it) were Stockton, Oakland, Berkeley and San Francisco.

* Director Richard C. Sarafian's original choice for the role of Kowalski was Gene Hackman, but the studio, 20th Century Fox, insisted on using Barry Newman if the movie was going to be made.

* The color white was chosen for the car simply so the car would stand out against the background scenery in the movie. White was not symbolic in any way. The director says this in the DVD commentary.

* A 1967 Camaro shell (no engine) loaded with explosives was used for the final crash. You can see the "Camaro" fender nameplate upside-down in the lower left corner of the screen after the crash.

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hair? check
jersey? check
camaro? I'm sure of it. The Mullet Hunter is stalking you, snipe.

11. Are you a tits, ass, or legs man?
  Face really,

translation: I'll fuck anything that moves.

24. What is your favorite memory?
  Let's call it college experimentation.

translation: Confirmation of above.

A friend of mine (hot girl) in high school and I were crossing an intersection once, there was a balding 20'sish guy sitting in his t-roof white camaro, as we passed by she yelled at him "Nice car, too bad about the penis!"

personally i think this is one of the worst movies I've seen, I'm not really into deep stuff like this, i couldn't stand the music and there was a very dug in plot and story line that was extremely hard for the average person to detect. my dad made me watch it with him and i got three quarters through and couldn't watch anymore of it. But then again i don't like a lot of stuff from the 80's. after telling him i couldn't take it anymore i promptly went out to my garage to work on my camaro and watch monk. lol i couldn't help it. this movie just ain't my cup of tea.

Most people who own IROC Camaros (regardless of whether or not this is fake) think they own the MOST badass car ever produced. So sad that it's funny.