HAH you bastard, you just did!

Anyway, thats cool, how many years in a row did we whoop your butt at the game you invented hmm?

 

Doesn't matter... "Freddie, freddie Flintoff!!"

It wouldn't have been as bad if Ponting hadn't of done his whinging pomme impression halfway through! You should have read the BBC test match special message board. Some of the Aussie remarks on there were rather bitter to say the least!

Its nice to get one over you convicts! Anyway... It was the greatest game of cricket i've ever seen. Fantastic edge of seat stuff for both sets of fans I think!

 

EDIT:I'm post retarded

 

haha now that is some funny **** but it is true

 

Oh man.

DSMs (Talon, Eclipse, Laser) were a joint operation between Chrysler, Mitsubishi, and AMC, whom Chrylser had bought up for a unknown reason. The 3000GT/Stealth was the same type of deal.

Whoops, just realized that this thread already got out of control on the "Jap" issue.

I hate the internet.

 

Truth it that the joint venture with Mitsu saved Chrysler's ***... the best they could do at the time was the K-Car! I had the grave misfortune of renting one once (a burgundy with matching velour interior :-( ) for a trip of several hundred miles. Worse car I ever drove!! Good thing they are still around though, since they are building cool cars again (MOPAR rules!!).

(I dated a Japanese girl once - she was seriously into salsa dancing. You can't imagine how that does a body good :-) )

 

Getting back to the original comment, I have to admit I hate what's happened backwise. Characters completely gone. And I'm still undecided about the front. Like Jeremy Clarkson (Topgear) quipped - Audi's gone and grown a goatee.

 

To stay back on an automotive styling thread, the modern aerodynamic 4-door compact-to-midsize sedan, as a mature product, exhibits a high degree of uniformity/convergence/imitation/cross-pollenization/etc. among competing designs. The Audi A4 / VW Passat B5 platform has been extensively copied around the world, and now it looks like VW/Audi is taking design cues from others.

What I appreciate about both my 1996 Audi A4 and my 2001 VW Passat variant is that they still look good and reasonably contemporary in today's environment. Good styling, like good music, art, or literature, stands the test of time.

 

Apparently, there is always a breech of security at VW/ Audi in their design department. You always can tell where the design went after a car came out (ie CIVIC Si vs the new GTi and the Toyota Corolla vs the new Jetta). I love how people are always copying euro design.

 

I don't think they are... The civic in Europe looks nothing like the golf in anyway, and the corolla looks nothing like the new jetta...

Civic


Golf


Which has been around longer? the civic... Even the newer one bears no resmblence to the golf...


The Japanses have their own style, and due to Euro crash testing, certain design traits will be common on all cars. No more pop up lights, no more square, blunt ends. they are all rounded to aid pedestrian safety, etc.