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    Audi Forces Humans To Do Mechanical Bidding, Build Q5
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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    03/24/09

    In reply to Audi Forces Humans To Do Mechanical Bidding, Build Q5
    Too many body panel gaps...
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    Image of Tanshanomi Tanshanomi
    03/24/09

    In reply to Audi Forces Humans To Do Mechanical Bidding, Build Q5
    Audi: Official Car of Enslaved Dystopian Ciphers.

    ...yea, I'd say they nailed their target audience with that one.
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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    03/24/09

    In reply to Audi Forces Humans To Do Mechanical Bidding, Build Q5
    This is almost as impressive as the Beijing 2008 Opening Ceremony shows. Nice ad, even if the car is totally un-Jalop.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    03/24/09

    In reply to Audi Forces Humans To Do Mechanical Bidding, Build Q5
    If Mercedes had paid attention to some pranksters at Caltech c. 1962, they would have secretly replaced some of the cards to show an R class instead of a Q5.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    03/24/09

    @engineerd:


    I've heard about a fair few CalTech pranks, but I have never heard of that one. That would have been brilliant.

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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    03/24/09

    @pauljones-Jo Schmo's saintly and opposite twin.: Did you look it up?


    [www.museumofhoaxes.com]


    Oops, it looks like it was really 1961.

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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    03/24/09

    @engineerd:

    I was at Caltech in 1984 when the more recent Rose Bowl hijack was executed. The stadium shut the electronic scoreboard system down quickly, then pursued my poor classmates to the full extent of the law. You see, the 1984 Summer Olympics in L.A. were to use that same venue in just a few months, and the Caltech prank embarrassed the folks in charge of security, and many politicians. The students' clandestine receiver could have just as easily been a bomb.

    No one has a sense of humor anymore...


    Yours truly, BSEE Caltech, 1985

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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    03/24/09

    @Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing: Hahaha...I read about that one, too. Funny stuff, although they did come down really hard on them. I'm sure if those guys had done it a year later they wouldn't have police records now.


    P.S. As a ME, I was going to make a joke about how you can't spell geek without double-e's, but my username has double-e's, so it would backfire on me.

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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    03/24/09

    @engineerd:

    "...I'm sure if those guys had done it a year later they wouldn't have police records now."


    Yet had they done that stunt anytime *after* 11 Sept. 2001, they'd probably STILL be guests at the Gitmo Hilton...

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    03/24/09

    @Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing: Aaarrgh!

    /italic after the quotation. I blame the AWOL Preview button...!
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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    03/24/09

    In reply to Audi Forces Humans To Do Mechanical Bidding, Build Q5
    I will never buy an Audi whose designation begins with Q. I will never buy a BMW whose designation begins with X. That is all.
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    Image of Jagvar Jagvar
    03/24/09

    @DoctorNine:


    This Audi begins with a Q:


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    Image of tekamul tekamul
    03/24/09

    @DoctorNine: What about a Mercedes that starts with M? Infiniti that starts with F? Or any Porsche named after a pepper...
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    03/24/09

    @tekamul:


    I wouldn't buy a Mercedes that starts with an "M" either. Which pretty much rules out Mercedes altogether. A Jag, on the other hand, if only I could drop that kind of cash on a car...


    I would want a Celestial Black Metallic XJ Super V8 with the 510hp engine out of the XFR.

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    Image of Tanshanomi Tanshanomi
    03/24/09

    @Jagvar: Old Hotness.
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    03/24/09

    @tekamul: If someone pointed a gun to my head and told me I needed to get an SUV, I would go straight to the Infiniti dealership and pick up an FX50. Those sons of bitches are mean.
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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    03/24/09

    @Jagvar: While there is much history in that one, the new ones are so much better, I can't honestly say that I crave it. I know, heresy...
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    03/24/09

    In reply to Audi Forces Humans To Do Mechanical Bidding, Build Q5
    If this really an Audi, 25% of those people will have alzheimers and forget how they're supposed to operate, 25% will have thyroid problems that will cause them to wear out much faster than normal, and 25% will quit as soon as the warranty runs out and their replacements will cost a fortune.
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