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more about #death more comments → MushyHeirloom: It's coming for you. more » SeanKHotay: "BUS WEAVING FWOM...DOOH NUMBAH 7 FOW......SECWET FAWUN GONG COMPOUND......SOUTH PWOVINCE PEANUT FACTOWIES......WHASSA & WIKAZE ARE THE TIBET DESI... more » Ford Tempo Fanatic: That thing is more depressing then seeing the Rolling Stones in concert. I mean, you'd think someone as bad ass as Mick Jagger wouldn't be able to gro... more » Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.: Don't the chemicals used in lethal injection work by causing massive organ failure, and wouldn't that make the organs useless for transplantation? more » Stoatmaster: Based on the Ford Transit Gloria Mundi. The suspension is fairly poor; supposed to be coils, but they're Mortal and keep shuffling off. more » PartsGuy20: I've seen the prototypes for this up here in the New England area, traveling between Boston and New York. They say "Fung Wah" on the side, which I'm p... more » damnelantra™: does the death wagon have a secret trap door that deposits the criminals in the streets of government opposing villages? because if it does not i thin... more » Maxichamp: The family of the executed will be charged 8 RMB per km for the distance this deathmobile traveled to get to the execution site. more » JC Whitless: But lets see how it fairs around our test track... The new Black Stig is coming around Chicago...all the while the team of specialized Chinese nurses ... more » sos10: From USA today.. great source! more » scroggzilla raids again: Boy, is Texas going to be jealous when they see this thing! more » Timtoolman, sporadically speaking: And here I always thought Chinese food was merely cats and dogs! more » maximum-sienna: If an Ambulance manufacturer makes a death bus, does that mean the Army will have a floral division? more » engineerd: I hear Jack Kevorkian is working on importing one. more » DoctorNine: It's good to see the Chinese Death Police doing their part to increase global demand for new vehicles. The real question, is does Jinguan Auto produce... more » -
#novelties
Chinese Death Bus: A Rolling Execution Studio?
Overpopulation and rampant crime has led the Chinese to develop a rolling lethal injection bus complete with a live video feed of the killings. Details inside. More » -
#industrynews
Mercury Brand To Die In Blaze Of Ignominious Neglect By 2012
The dirty little secret at Ford is that Mercury's already dead, it's just that nobody can actually say it. Ford's in a tough enough fight on the eastern front without having to deal with a rear-attack in the west from legions of Lincoln-Mercury dealers pissed off they'll be losing half their sales channel. We understand that of course, but it doesn't mean we haven't done our damnedest to try to suss out the reality from every executive we've been able to get in front of. Whether it was at the 2007 Detroit Auto Show with Ford CEO Alan Mulally's "Mercury blands" slip-of-the-tongue or Mark Fields being unable to explain to us what Mercury was beyond "a Ford...that's a little different." Even at the Detroit Auto Show this year, we asked where the Mercury product was. We've been asking Ford for over two years about the status of the automaker's close-to-the-sun brand. We even asked you whether Mercury should survive after the Detroit News reported we should hear a gameplan for Mercury by the fourth quarter of this year. More » -
#24hoursoflemonsaltamont
Details, Driver Name Emerge In Tragic Altamont LeMons Crash
While Murilee and the rest of Team V8olvo musters on with thoughts still on yesterday's tragedy at the 24 Hours of Lemons race at Altamont, we here at the Jalopnik Detroit bureau are lending a helping hand with coverage. We've just received news from the Gulf 39 team on the identity of their teammate behind the wheel of the Volvo 242 Turbo along with a little more detail on the preliminary on-scene investigation by the California Highway Patrol. We'd indicated to the team we only wanted to know the name after they'd had the opportunity to notify family, so although we're assuming that's been done already, we still wanted to make sure to include the name after the fold of this post to make certain it's been taken care of already. With that in mind — the short, but full, e-mail after the jump. More » -
#24hoursoflemonsaltamont
Tragic Death Reported At Altamont 24 Hours of LeMons Race
We all saw the report from Murilee just under an hour ago, and now we're hearing from numerous sources that the 24 Hours of LeMons race has taken a tragic turn. Our sources tell us the driver of the Volvo 242 Turbo in Gulf Oil colors (pictured above before the race, and below from the Thunderhill LeMons race last year) has died. We're waiting on more as we hear it from team V8olvo as well as others at the Altamont 24 Hours of LeMons. If this news ends up being true, our prayers, thoughts and well-wishes go out to the family, friends and teammates. All we do know for sure is that racing has been halted for the day and will supposedly resume again tomorrow. Although if it is true, that may just be wishful thinking. Updated below the jump — and with new photos below thanks to Mark Pitts. More » -
