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    Automaker Future "Youthmobile" Concepts Are Wacky

    Tetsuya Tada —

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    Image of LuciferV8 LuciferV8
    11/10/09

    In reply to Automaker Future "Youthmobile" Concepts Are Wacky
    I call BS on this one. We all know that cars "aimed at the young" end up being bought by old people trying to look hip. All of those cars look way too hard to climb into for the real target demographic. #conceptcars
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    11/10/09

    In reply to Automaker Future "Youthmobile" Concepts Are Wacky
    Once again Audi and Mazda are the only noteworthy examples of clear design direction. While the other manufacturer's run nillywilly with their nonsensical unfocused designs, Audi and Mazda have instantly recognizable elements that hopefully survive to 2030. #conceptcars
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    11/10/09

    In reply to Automaker Future "Youthmobile" Concepts Are Wacky
    I'm having an irresistable urge to denigrate both the designs and the hare-brained ideas on which they're based. I must be getting old. #conceptcars
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    Image of bzr bzr
    11/10/09

    In reply to Automaker Future "Youthmobile" Concepts Are Wacky
    Once you enter your destination into the navi app on your smart phone, you can play against the vehicle to "win" complete control over the system and gain access to increasingly outrageous driving scenarios.

    I love the sound of this. I think it'll be hilarious to see kids being forced to square off against a War Games computer every time they want to go somewhere. Didn't make the high score? The car's taking you to Boise! Wanna go to Starbucks? Fat chance, gotta beat the Parnelli Jones boss at his own game! Why didn't you go to school today, Junior? I was driving there, but I couldn't get the Star Power 4x multiplier at 48,375 points and the car sent me the wrong way down an on-ramp! #conceptcars
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    Image of Racin_G73 - dirt track legend (some day ... maybe) Racin_G73 - dirt track legend (some day ... maybe)
    11/10/09

    @bzr: "Dangit... I can't remember how to parallel park."

    "Oh, that's simple! Left, Right, Left, Right, A, B, Up and then Down. Easy!" #conceptcars
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    11/10/09

    In reply to Automaker Future "Youthmobile" Concepts Are Wacky
    Crackpipe. #conceptcars
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    10/07/09

    In reply to Tetsuya Tada —
    Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey.
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    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    10/07/09

    @MushyHeirloom: Except for me and my Monkey-Ass Red... GET IT RIGHT! lol
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    Image of bmoreDLJ bmoreDLJ
    10/07/09

    In reply to Tetsuya Tada —
    I have to believe there's something subtle in the Japanese language that makes it impossible to translate into English correctly.

    Time and time again you hear from Japanese auto execs how something "has to" be someway. How a sports car has to be red, for instance. But this is an obvious falsehood, as there are many sports cars that aren't red. Some are black. Some are white. Some are P***y magnet matte yellow. Some are gold or chrome painted.

    Is Tada lying, being intentionally obtuse or rediculous, or simply being mistranslated? I don't have enough information to decide, but I wish I knew.

    These "Japabsolutisms" get on my nerves because of their unbending absoluteness in the face of true, contradictory fact.
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    10/07/09

    @bmoreDLJ: I think I know what you mean, but do you have any other examples?
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    10/07/09

    @discontinuuity is happy that everything has been set right in the Jalopverse. Now all we need is more of engineerd's Brefas Scotch!: JAPSOLUTISMS! much better with that one syllable taken out.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    10/07/09

    @bmoreDLJ: I think it's more like "ought", except that tradition says "has".
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    10/07/09

    In reply to Tetsuya Tada —

    As I commented in the first FT-86, the color is clearly Ford's totally-played-out Toreador Red Metallic. Either that, or something very very close. Call it what you like, it what it looks like that counts. And it looks awful in that color. The front end is like wax lips:
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    Image of P161911 probably shoudn't have P161911 probably shoudn't have
    10/07/09

    In reply to Tetsuya Tada —
    So what happens to the FT-86 when you sprinkle some of this on it.
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    Image of Joe-Btfsplk Joe-Btfsplk
    10/07/09

    In reply to Tetsuya Tada —
    It's kind of a Candy Monkey-Ass Red. I don't think that the color is destined to be a big seller....looks like crack-whore toenail polish.
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    Image of Scaramanga Scaramanga
    10/07/09

    In reply to Tetsuya Tada —
    I think Autoweek mistranslated or merely literally translated...

    Etiologically speaking, the name of the color is derived from Chinese mystical beast shoujou, a monkey-like creature that enjoys drinking and playing. For that reason, during the Sengoku-period the formal scarlet vessels that Japanese use have that red coloring in reference to those festive beasts.

    Being that just vessels were highly-prized and expensive they became used primarily by the upper Samurai class. And the color became a status symbol with Samurai's adopting that red for their armor and garb. And since then the color has been associated with the Samurai.

    [ja.wikipedia.org]

    [images.google.com]

    However, using literal Chinese characters, the color is "monkey-red", However the reference is not to monkeys but rather to the mythical festive beasts that they were originally associated with.
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    10/07/09

    @Scaramanga: Wow, that makes a lot more sense.
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    10/07/09

    In reply to Tetsuya Tada —
    For their next color, they have been inspired by the purple hue in their helmeted warriors.....
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    Image of Number_Six Number_Six
    10/07/09

    @OldeEnglishD: I barfed.
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    Image of RLJ676-LS3 Commuter Car - for the environment RLJ676-LS3 Commuter Car - for the environment
    10/07/09

    In reply to Tetsuya Tada —
    I can't wait to see these all over town, ripping it up with their "fart-can" exhausts.
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    10/07/09

    In reply to Tetsuya Tada —
    Maybe someone used an online translator. Having worked for a Japanese company before and trying to translate documents with an online translator you can get some strange things. This reminds me of my personal favorite: "Monkey Spanner". Sounds like it would be painful for the monkey but I finally figured out it was "adjustable wrench". Spanner = wrench, monkey wrench = adjustable wrench = monkey spanner.
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    10/07/09

    @P161911 probably shoudn't have: Best I saw in Japan was an advertisement bill board for orange juice. It promoted "Flesh Juice"
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    Image of BaconSandwich and the generic grey civic of doom BaconSandwich and the generic grey civic of doom
    10/07/09

    @Peugeot--Fire Marshall Bill Approved: Dang zombiepocalypse - so that's where it started!
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    Image of theart theart
    10/07/09

    @P161911 probably shoudn't have: That just sounds like your translator was set to the wrong kind of English.
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    10/07/09

    @theart: It was an online translator and free, so that explained some of it.
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    10/07/09

    In reply to Tetsuya Tada —
    Tim Flock, please report to the Customer Service desk!
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    10/07/09


    @flat_tar: Jocko's at it again!
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