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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10/29/09

    In reply to Top Car Lipsticks Panamera Pig
    She's not a pig. She's just muscled up and big boned. And she can kick your ass. #topcarporschepanamerastingray
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    Image of Scandinavian Flick Scandinavian Flick
    10/29/09

    In reply to Top Car Lipsticks Panamera Pig

    Top Roomba #topcarporschepanamerastingray
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    Image of CraigSu CraigSu
    10/29/09

    In reply to Top Car Lipsticks Panamera Pig

    All in all, the lipstick is helping. At least the Stingray design cues distract from the rear window hump.

    "Hump...what hump?" - apologies to Igor (played by Marty Feldman in Young Frankenstein)

    Still, the Aston Martin Rapide is executed so much better. And it needs no lipstick...
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    Novaload promoted this comment Edited by CraigSu at 10/29/09 3:39 PM CraigSu was starred CraigSu was unstarred
    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10/29/09

    @CraigSu: So you don't like rear window humps?
    Strange. #topcarporschepanamerastingray
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    Image of CraigSu CraigSu
    10/29/09

    @Novaload: Not in public...Oh, wait, were we still talking about cars? #topcarporschepanamerastingray
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10/29/09

    @CraigSu: Yes. No. Both. #topcarporschepanamerastingray
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    Image of Steve_in_NC Steve_in_NC
    10/29/09

    In reply to Top Car Lipsticks Panamera Pig
    Silly. Notice the way they tried to put a GT3 look on the top of the front bumper, sad.
    Porsche is very minimalist in it's exterior styling and hanging crap off them usually fails. #topcarporschepanamerastingray
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    10/29/09

    In reply to Top Car Lipsticks Panamera Pig
    Busy, busy, busy. Yum, now I can get Schwabian rice! I might be able to tolerate the rear diffuser and the front bumper cover, but the rest is pretty silly.

    This is a car that should be striving for understated style and athleticism. But maybe Mike Phelps will buy a six-pack for his friends. #topcarporschepanamerastingray
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    10/29/09

    @Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: Fahrfrumsübtle. #topcarporschepanamerastingray
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    Image of ThreeLitre ThreeLitre
    10/29/09

    In reply to Top Car Lipsticks Panamera Pig
    Still has a badonkadonk.

    Not a fan of the 'donk, I am. #topcarporschepanamerastingray
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    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    10/29/09

    In reply to Top Car Lipsticks Panamera Pig
    What better way to say "I need a car to get me laid, and also somewhere to put a couple of the results"? #topcarporschepanamerastingray
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    Image of MottPower MottPower
    10/29/09

    In reply to Top Car Lipsticks Panamera Pig
    What a horrible waste of time and creativity. #topcarporschepanamerastingray
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    Image of KeyserSoze KeyserSoze
    10/29/09

    @MottPower: and money. #topcarporschepanamerastingray
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    AmishJohn promoted this comment KeyserSoze was starred KeyserSoze was unstarred
    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    10/29/09

    @rligeti: and raw materials... #topcarporschepanamerastingray
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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    10/20/09

    In reply to Jeremy Clarkson: Panamera Ugly As "Inside-Out Monkey"
    Looks about par for a Porsche to me. A lot like a Boxster. Then, aside from the Tapiro, I've never seen a Porsche that would turn my head if it drove by... #jeremyclarkson
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    10/19/09

    In reply to Jeremy Clarkson: Panamera Ugly As "Inside-Out Monkey"
    Ugh. A 500-horsepower 5-door hatchback with a Porsche badge and spiritual ancestor in the 928 has no right to be this boring. But it is. It's dull. It's Jacksonville, Florida, on wheels. Beige on taupe on gray dull. Duller than a Cayenne V6. Duller than a metallic bronze Venza. Duller than Bob Costas. Duller than a Kia Amanti or page 565 of Obama's Waterloo.

    And yet I cannot ignore Porsche at its finest. Here is a finely welded appliance for a dentist whose blow-up spouse tires of taking flack from her real housewife friends for running over construction cones, Pomeranians, and Ecuadorian children with the family GL450. Here is the Juno Beach real estate developer's chariot, perfect for point-to-point condo showings without the social tax. Need a ride? America's off the high-fructose corn syrup, so slide your lean frame in. Mission accomplished. Sign the form. And the Panamera just bleeds German. It screams Mercedes with a touch of crazy. I'm ugly on purpose. It's a superiority statement with circles and arrows and a description on the back of every pricey tidbit.

    I look at this spiritual black hole and must remind myself that, sure, Porsche can dial in a GT3 for a few wingnuts and sell a couple of row-your-own Boxsters, but they ignore the dentists (and bank managers and attorneys and federal loan officers) at their peril.

    /Times Online, USA, excerpt #jeremyclarkson
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    Image of loquaciousmusic loquaciousmusic
    10/19/09

    In reply to Jeremy Clarkson: Panamera Ugly As "Inside-Out Monkey"
    I think that, from the back, the Panamera looks sort of like an AMC Pacer. #jeremyclarkson
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10/19/09

    In reply to Jeremy Clarkson: Panamera Ugly As "Inside-Out Monkey"
    After the Cayenne/Froggy Face on Wheels, the Panamera is a thing of beauty. #jeremyclarkson
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    Image of snapoversteer 'bout to get told snapoversteer 'bout to get told
    10/19/09

    In reply to Jeremy Clarkson: Panamera Ugly As "Inside-Out Monkey"
    I understand the temptation to rely on pop culture references in humor writing. They make useful shorthand, and assuming your audience is familiar with the subjects, they can be funny.

    But doesn't this seem a bit overboard? In five years, no one will be able to understand a full 20% of this article. Car and Driver drives me nuts on this issue also. #jeremyclarkson
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    Image of Jeb_Hoge Jeb_Hoge
    10/19/09

    @snapoversteer smells like: Hell, Clarkson's columns are always loaded with references to current events and British personalities that usually I've never even heard of. But that makes them more interesting to me, for some reason. #jeremyclarkson
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    Image of dolo54 blows minds and blows engines! dolo54 blows minds and blows engines!
    10/19/09

    @snapoversteer smells like: I understand what you're saying, but seriously, where's the beef? You might think it's ginchy to be so critical, but that attitude's gonna go over like New Coke. If you want to be in like Flint you've got to get down with the program, can you dig it? Oh, and balloon boy. #jeremyclarkson
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    Image of skierpage skierpage
    10/20/09

    @snapoversteer smells like: Don't have a cow, man. 2014's cultural archaeologists will just set GoogleArchivist to pre-2010 searching of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive and have a fine time decoding cultural references. #jeremyclarkson
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    Image of Turboner Turboner
    10/19/09

    In reply to Jeremy Clarkson: Panamera Ugly As "Inside-Out Monkey"
    Not everyone can have even one, let alone TWO, chins as beautiful as Clarksons... #jeremyclarkson
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    10/19/09

    @Turboner: I meant to put an apostrophe in there somewhere. #jeremyclarkson
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    10/19/09

    @Turboner: Jay Leno begs to differ. #jeremyclarkson
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    Image of Turboner Turboner
    10/19/09

    @pauljones: Yeah, but his American chins are coarse and devoid of soul and character. #jeremyclarkson
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    10/19/09

    @Turboner: Soul and character? Clarkson isn't Italian either. #jeremyclarkson
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    Image of quayzar quayzar
    10/19/09

    @Syrax: Yeah Clarkson's chin is British so it overheats on the A40.
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    Image of Jeb_Hoge Jeb_Hoge
    10/19/09

    In reply to Jeremy Clarkson: Panamera Ugly As "Inside-Out Monkey"
    Against all reason, the Panera-merica has actually grown on me. I wouldn't take it over a Rapide or QP, but it doesn't offend my sensibilities and I'd prefer it over most flavors of BMW or Benz. #jeremyclarkson
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10/19/09

    @Jeb_Hoge: I have unashamedly loved it from Day One. And endured much abuse for same. #jeremyclarkson
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