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Detroit, 8:18 PM
Sun Nov 8
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I am curious though how it works when twisted. I've been in some cars where there just isn't a way to have it facing the right way all the way across. #seatbelts
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Granted, you'll never get it off you, but if it solidified more quickly than it does out of the can, it's a viable cushion material.
/will never forget getting it on my hands/arms 20+ years ago...took at least 4 weeks to get it off #seatbelts
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I avoid Sylvester Stallone movies, and I'm not real fan of Bullock, either, though at least she's easy on the eyes/ears. #seatbelts
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Kudos to Ford on an inflatable seat belt! This will provide better protection, not only for our children, but for other things we hold dear to our hearts. #seatbelts
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@skaycog: So that's what whale penis leather looks like. Your seats look a little dingy, but I know one of the drawbacks with that material is that it requires daily smegma removal to keep them looking good. #seatbelts
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10/13/09
How will people distinguish between all their offerings that are so similar?
IMO they should have kept it truck based BoF or killed it, and not cannibalized their own sales.
10/13/09
I think putting the Explorer on a car platform is a supreme mistake. They've already got two car platform based SUVs, why not leave one based on a truck platform for those people who want a sturdier undercarriage and plan to really use the U part of their SUV?!
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"so we think we should revive a model that made ford great in this turnaround we're having"
"great idea, but which model?"
"something that was respected and fun to drive, but something the kids will like."
"what do the kids like nowadays?"
"hey, I got it, the Thunderbird!"
"I think we need a car the public will view as responsible, now we've really got to think here. What else can we make?
"An SUV!!!"
...just great.
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/dream
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A new FS Bronco would be awesome. A new Bronco II would be depressing.
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09/09/09
Yesterday, I followed a '95 Camaro (V6) through the sweeping Essex countryside. It had a "4 sale" poster in the rear screen offering the car for sale for £3995. This is pretty much par for the course in the UK.
Thing is, you know the '95 Camaro is a piece of shit, I know, too. But owing to the rarity value Mr and Mrs English see "one of those cool looking American cars" as being a bit special and worth money.
Except Explorers, which are still universally loathed.
Anyway.
The Vids on Youtube are rich with the sort of machinery which gave me Jalopgasms when I visited the States as a teenager. Coming from a land rich with Mondeos, Vectras and Rovers, the metal you had on the road in '95 seemed irretreivably cool.
And now, your lots are full of Thunderbirds, Auroras, MKVIIIs, all c4c'd, sodium silicate afflicted and with DEAD writ large on the windscreen. Auroras! V8, 250bhp cars which looked (and still do) like they were from the future.
But now, thank christ they're all gone and your roads full of lovely Kias, Hyundais and Koreolets.
It is a sad, sad, sad state of affairs.
I'm just glad I still have the brochures, which may well outlive the cars.
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