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VW builds cars here. In fact there is a VW plant about 1km from me right now, here at work in Pickering. Check out the southeast corner of the intersection in this map, note all the silver cars in a line behind the building, those are new Golfs and Jettas. I wasn't aware that they had a factory here until I saw it myself.

Fly's pulling our leg a little with the picture. It won't be THAT car, if you read the article they haven't said which one yet, maybe one that's not even on sale in China yet. The picture at the top of the article is also misleading, they say further down that it WON'T be the dated Santana pictured. Before you go crucifying VW for still selling that thing, keep this in mind - it is their major fleet vehicle, sold largely as a cab. Ford Crown Vic, anyone? How old is that platform now? :AH-HA_wink:

By far the ugliest Mercedes, IMO.

Esperanto is a created language intended to be easy to learn for all speakers of European languages. It also has ONE pronunciation for each letter, so you always know how to pronounce something based on how it is written. It has actually been partly accepted, with about a million speakers, and about a thousand native speakers (where it is their first language). I'd like to see this take off.

J'ai grandir au Canada donc je parle Francais. I think the word I know most is "cheers". I don't know how to spell any of these, so I'm just going by sound. Nosdrovya: Serbian / Ukrainian Proscht: Dutch Prost: German Ita taki mas: Japanese I know how to read the basic Japanese characters (the ones not borrowed from Chinese), and speak a bit. I learned a few Mandarin phrases while in China, and the meanings of a few important characters for navigation. Ones I can remember: North, West, Mountain, Center, Men, Women, Danger, Gate, and their numerals. They use our numbers a lot, but sometiems you will still see their old numerals. Most of Japanese is phonetic to their alphabet, like western languages - so you learn a character for its sound, then figure out what that sound means. Chinese however is not at all phonetic, so the things I know how to say I have no idea how to write, and the things I know how to read I have no idea how to say. Strange disconnect.

A very odd version of The Number of the Beast - click

I really shouldn't have complained about War Pigs. I just had to do Sweet Child of Mine about 5 times before finally getting to the end. Slash is the man! (though I still don't like many of their songs)

Just finished listening to myself, playing War Pigs on Guitar Hero on Expert. Now I think my arm is going to fall off.

Man, be thankful that car is so old. It won't be much of an insurance hit.

Am I the only one COMPLETELY shocked by this??? I thought this was one of Fly's jokes!!! I thought Ford and Mitsu would die LONG before VW!!!

I like the old-fashioned kind, the pure-peanut butter, made without stabilizers. It's the kind where you have to stir the oil in, since it separates on the top. Any other wierdos like me?

There are good songs from EVERY decade. It's just that the '80s had so few redeeming ones for my taste. I think the only hair metal band I actually came to appreciate is Iron Maiden. Insane guitar skills, but they figured out how to write insanely fast riffs and put them into GOOD songs and not just wank on stage, 'look how fast I can play'.

B looks like a Grand Am, and that's really not a good thing for the Challenger name.

Somewhere, in a leopard-print computer chair, Snoop Dogg just read this article, cried a tear, then took another hit of the blunt and forgot what the hell he was crying about.

"My new toy" My thoughts on opening this thread: Please nothing phallic... Please nothing phallic... Please nothing phallic...

I've done that. (with FWD)

3 4 2

3 2 7 If I could give all my points to 3 I would.

I think you just summed up in one post all the reasons why I freakin' hate the '80s. Plus I just lost any respect I had for Van Halen when I found out that "Jump" (pop sh*t) song was theirs.

You lurking creep... I mean, er, welcome back. :AH-HA_wink:

"Flashdance ... What a Feeling" by Irene Cara Man, the '80s sucked. HS grad: "Try Again" by Aaliyah Slightly better. University grad: "Hollaback Girl" by Gwen Stefani Ow my face.

A friend told me a pretty funny story about one of the speeding cameras, thought I'd share it here. He went to university in Germany. They had a news piece there one day about a guy who got away with speeding past a camera because he had no front plate and the picture that the camera took of what was supposed to be his face was instead his naked butt, which he had flipped upside down to point at the camera. Can you imagine trying to drive a car, upside down with your pants off?

Down the Hamilton Escarpment (read: giant cliff) in a low gear, I once read 1.1 L/100km on the computer. 1.1 l/100km = 213.83144 miles per gallon Obviously hybrids are unnecessary.

Now that I look at the picture, I remember seeing these Chery A1s in China. They look like they're about the width of a Smart Fortwo. They have engine size badges on the back, either "1.1" or "0.8". It actually said it that way on the badge in silver letters too - "0.8".