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    Image of scottcom36 has Weekday DT's, Weekend OD's scottcom36 has Weekday DT's, Weekend OD's
    12/15/08

    In reply to Toyota To Halt Mississippi Plant, Plans For US Prius Production
    QOTD suggestion: Should Jalopnik be a forum for the editors to drone on about politics, or should it be about...CARS?
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    Image of mikedrawcar mikedrawcar
    12/15/08

    @scottcom36: not sure if you've noticed, but they meet occasionally. Especially in recent history.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    12/15/08

    @scottcom36: Yes.
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    Image of AllenK AllenK
    12/15/08

    In reply to Toyota To Halt Mississippi Plant, Plans For US Prius Production
    There must be 10,000 people building that plant in MS. There was nothing but a sign there in the Summer of '07. My wife and I went by there again last Summer,and I couldn't believe how far along they had come on it in such a relatively short time. Perhaps there was more done at the plant than I thought last year, but I was still shocked.


    I'm from the South,but I don't agree with what the Southern senators are doing at all!

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    12/15/08

    @AllenK: I don't think anyone agrees with Southern Senators.
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    Image of Bumblebee Bumblebee
    12/15/08

    In reply to Toyota To Halt Mississippi Plant, Plans For US Prius Production
    Jalop, can you stop grinding your ax? As you say, those subsidies have been given since '92, long before the current context that exists. You're reaching so far that you actually weaken your argument rather than strengthen it: I'm inclined to question your conclusions even more now.


    But that's beside the point: If you're going to write an editorial then call it that. It seems that you're trying to find facts that support a knee-jerk reaction viewpoint created two seconds after the facts became available but that doesn't really hold up upon further examination. Reminds me of Jon Stewart.

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    Image of Landau_Calrissian loves our President Camacho. Landau_Calrissian loves our President Camacho.
    12/15/08

    @Bumblebee: You might as well ask Lifehacker to give Windows a fair shake :) It's just an ad platform, there are some good car-related stories here and there though.
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    Image of Bumblebee Bumblebee
    12/15/08

    @Landau_Calrissian: [double standard alert] Windows doesn't deserve a fair shake. Windows is morally contemptible. It's mother called it stupid when it was young. It hurts children. It burns churches and blows up hospitals. [end double standard]


    I don't know that Jalop is just an "ad platform." That's a pretty severe assessment, especially when Jalop doesn't advertise any automaker ads.

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    Image of Bad Juju Bad Juju
    12/15/08

    @Bumblebee: No automaker ads? Subaru & BMW come to mind..not recently mind you, but its happened.
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    12/15/08

    @Bad Juju: Can't prove that by me. I haven't seen an ad here since I put started using FF3...
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    Image of donner_froh donner_froh
    12/16/08

    @Bumblebee: Jon Stewart? I don't think Wert and company (or many others in the entertainment/information business) would mind that comparison.
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    Image of Bumblebee Bumblebee
    12/16/08

    @donner_froh: The "entertainment/information business"?


    I'm concerned how easily you use that term. You know Jon Stewart is a fake newsman, right? And that news channels are supposed to give us news, unbiased and transparent?

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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    12/16/08

    @Bumblebee: Like that's ever happened.
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    Image of Cognitive Friction Cognitive Friction
    12/15/08

    In reply to Toyota To Halt Mississippi Plant, Plans For US Prius Production
    Saved by Zero...production
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    Image of deus ex wagon deus ex wagon
    12/15/08

    @Cognitive_Friction: Two snares and a cymbal fall off a cliff
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    12/16/08

    @deus ex wagon: [www.instantrimshot.com]
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    Image of cgarison cgarison
    12/15/08

    In reply to Toyota To Halt Mississippi Plant, Plans For US Prius Production
    I gave the Venza concept the shaow of a doubt.


    Then I saw one on the road last week.


    OMG! What was Toyota engineers and marketers smoking? Seriously... This car is a guaranteed market flop. Concept is good but the execution cam off like a vanilla Ford Freestyle.


    And I had no clue that a Freestyle could be any more Vanilla.

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    12/15/08

    @cgarison: Looks like XL7-meets-RX330 with a grille drawn by a blind man with Parkinson's.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    12/15/08

    In reply to Toyota To Halt Mississippi Plant, Plans For US Prius Production
    Wait, you mean nobody wants hideous Camry-based tall wagons? Well, spank my ass and call me Sally!
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    Image of Brimful of Ash on the 78 Brimful of Ash on the 78
    12/15/08

    @FuzzyPlushroom: Yeah, really.


    "Sir, how about a Camry wagon? We're losing some potential customers to Audi, VW, and Volvo"


    "That's only a few percentage points. Besides, with CAFE and the low margin on wagons, we can't be bothered."


    "OK, well how about we make it a little taller, call it a crossover, and charge several thousand more than a Camry?"


    "Johnson, you're a genius"


    "Thank you, sir"


    "I was talking to my crotch"

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    12/15/08

    @The Name's Ash78, Housewares: Why did I never friend you? I'm trying now, believe me, but the hamsters don't seem to get the hint.
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    Image of Brimful of Ash on the 78 Brimful of Ash on the 78
    12/15/08

    @FuzzyPlushroom: I don't really mess with all those little buttons and stuff, so I hope nobody takes offense that I don't "friend" or "follow" them. Too much for my little brain to handle.


    And I haven't been able to change my screen name in weeks, which is why I still have the Evil Dead thing.

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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    12/15/08

    @The Name's Ash78, Housewares: It'd be funny if it weren't so sad...
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    12/15/08

    @The Name's Ash78, Housewares: We do take offense, but it's okay. We've already labelled you a bastard and moved on.
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    Image of LoganSix LoganSix
    12/15/08

    In reply to Toyota To Halt Mississippi Plant, Plans For US Prius Production
    Did they actually hire the plant workers? Because, it would be very simple to say there are no job cuts when you haven't made any jobs to cut.
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    Image of danio3834 danio3834
    12/15/08

    @LoganSix: They must mean the construction workers.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    12/15/08

    In reply to Toyota To Halt Mississippi Plant, Plans For US Prius Production
    I know it seems hypocritical for me to laugh at Toyota's factories halting while I support saving GM and Ford, I'm glad that less Highlanders and Venzas will be on the road. They're so fugly.
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    Image of Brimful of Ash on the 78 Brimful of Ash on the 78
    12/15/08

    In reply to Toyota To Halt Mississippi Plant, Plans For US Prius Production
    Key difference, unless I'm missing something:


    1. States betting their tax money on a winning proposition is good, right?


    2. States demanding Federal tax money for a (historically) losing proposition is supposed to be good?


    Sounds like apples and oranges with respect to whose tax money we're talking about.

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    Image of LoganSix LoganSix
    12/15/08

    @The Name's Ash78, Housewares: "2. States demanding Federal tax money for a (historically) losing proposition is supposed to be good?" -- Like that whole Katrina thing. I'd like my tax dollars back on that one. $800 per family so far and rising. I think we could have just leveled the strike area and completely rebuilt for cheaper. Heck, we could have used it to bailout the automakers with that $100+ billion. At least most of the auto workers are actually working, unlike in New Orleans. What? To unPC?
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    Image of Brimful of Ash on the 78 Brimful of Ash on the 78
    12/15/08

    @LoganSix: Whoa, hold on a sec...I was talking about two auto industry scenarios that are frequenty compared to one another. Not a natural disaster.


    If we starting picking apart EVERY use of tax money, the discussion has no end. And yes, Katrina involved some of the worst mishandling of money ever (especially those un-monitored gift cards they gave out...WTF was that?)

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