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    Insufficiently Festive Festiva Doomed To Crusher By Québécois Quality-Control Team

    Céline Dion Destroys Quebec In Her 1991 Dodge Colt

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    Image of bzr bzr
    05/14/09

    In reply to Céline Dion Destroys Quebec In Her 1991 Dodge Colt
    Once again proving my most insane conspiracy theories: the apocalypse will directly involve Celine Dion.
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    Image of joneez wants the clunkers he paid for joneez wants the clunkers he paid for
    03/21/09

    In reply to Insufficiently Festive Festiva Doomed To Crusher By Québécois Quality-Control Team
    This one's pretty festive;
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/21/09

    @joneez is tired of all the Pinto hate: Watching that little guy squish its way onto three wheels 'round those corners really made my day.
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    Image of Ford Tempo Fanatic Ford Tempo Fanatic
    03/21/09

    In reply to Insufficiently Festive Festiva Doomed To Crusher By Québécois Quality-Control Team
    Man these cars. Scare the crap out of me. Let me rephrase, their drivers scare the crap out of me. There is a surprising number of them up here in Alaska. Not many, but more then you'd think. Hell, I know a guy who owns one. He also races a 381 powered '73 Camaro that supposedly puts down about 500WHP. Not street legal of course. Just interesting to see that the same man who races a custom beast of a muscle car, also drives a '91 Fiesta GL.


    I hate Fiestas. Their name sounds so happy and full of good cheer, but they are just hiding behind a fake visage.

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    Image of Boosted Lego Wagon Boosted Lego Wagon
    03/21/09

    In reply to Insufficiently Festive Festiva Doomed To Crusher By Québécois Quality-Control Team
    Festiva! Too bad the powertrain took a siesta every time a hill appeared.
    However, you can swap a B6T into these things....
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    Image of SeanKHotay SeanKHotay
    03/21/09

    In reply to Insufficiently Festive Festiva Doomed To Crusher By Québécois Quality-Control Team
    Hooray! It's a Festiva for the kids, Pop, & Ma!


    Was there a SUV?


    No, instead, there's just the econobox. And it has no decoration. I find chav bling distracting. It's made from thin steel. Very high dent-to-strength ratio.


    The tradition of Festiva must begin with the Airing of Grievances.


    I got a lot of problems with you Big Three car companies! And now you're gonna hear about it!


    You, Ford Jr! My son tells me your company STINKS!


    And you, lumber boy! Yeah, Zarella, I'm talking to you! Run a company into the ground much?!

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    Image of SeanKHotay SeanKHotay
    03/21/09

    In reply to Insufficiently Festive Festiva Doomed To Crusher By Québécois Quality-Control Team
    "...put in a steel-grate floor in the brake-test area so as to avoid tides of brake fluid ruining your inspectors' steel-toes..."


    ...Not sure what they did in the situation in certain Ford plants when they were snapping fuel lines.

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    Image of SeanKHotay SeanKHotay
    03/21/09

    @SeanKHotay: * '96-'98 timeframe...
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    03/21/09

    In reply to Insufficiently Festive Festiva Doomed To Crusher By Québécois Quality-Control Team
    The little Fiestas that preceded these were actually really great, lots of pickup, fun to drive, sporty gearbox.

    I occasionally see a wretched Festivus around but they all look like they've been rolled a couple of times--or beaten all over with a heavy rubber mallet. Or both.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/21/09

    @Novaload Misses Murilee: So it's like Starlet to Terkle, except without the staid reliability and 4wd option?
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/21/09

    In reply to Insufficiently Festive Festiva Doomed To Crusher By Québécois Quality-Control Team
    What's so festive about a Kia-built enclosed golf cart?
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    Image of .357 .357
    03/21/09

    @FurtiveParsnip: The name?
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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.
    03/21/09

    @FurtiveParsnip: You mean other than the name? Good question, can anyone tell us the answer? Anyone? Bueller?
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/21/09

    @Mike the Dog will work for a Preview Button!: Apparently not the colo(u)r.
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    Image of Graverobber Graverobber
    03/21/09

    In reply to Insufficiently Festive Festiva Doomed To Crusher By Québécois Quality-Control Team
    Oh great, now I'm going to have that stuck in my head all day. Fe-STEE-va!


    See? Thanks Murilee.

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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    03/21/09

    In reply to Insufficiently Festive Festiva Doomed To Crusher By Québécois Quality-Control Team
    'Shooting one every now and then serves to encourage the others.'


    I think that engineer got shot down last night, and decided to take it out on the PMY Festiva that had been his ride.

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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    03/21/09

    @Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: Shit, are they talking about the cars or the engineers?!
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    03/21/09

    @A promenading performer: Let's find out...
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    Image of .357 .357
    03/21/09

    In reply to Insufficiently Festive Festiva Doomed To Crusher By Québécois Quality-Control Team
    This is a pretty good commercial, even though the only word I understood was "Festiva!" The sad part is that I'm Canadian.
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    Image of Leeeeena the Jalopchick Leeeeena the Jalopchick
    03/21/09

    @.357: I take it you're not a Francophone Canadian, then. The narration was pretty much what you'd expect:


    Blah blah blah before leaving the production line blah blah undergo same test blah blah one course of action blah *squish* blah the totally tiny Festiva blah


    Canadian French sounds weird to my snobby Parisian-accustomed ears.

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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    03/22/09

    @Leeeeena the Jalopchick: Could be worse. Come to my "ma mere"'s house and you get to hear the verbal onslaught that is Cajun French.
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    Image of Nitrous Oxide Nitrous Oxide
    03/22/09

    @A promenading performer: Actually, Quebec French is/was closer to how it was spoken in the royal courts before the revolution. The linguists have evidence of that in the fact that there are still isolated parts of Europe that speak variants of French that have similarities with Quebec. Like Normandy, Guernsey, and some other island in the UK. I say 'was' because TV and radio are influencing both Quebec and France, and they are now converging towards a common accent and vocabulary. The trend is more acute on Quebec, though.
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    03/22/09

    @Nitrous Oxide: You should hear southern Louisiana Cajun French. I bet you won't say the same about that.


    Oh, do it soon, too, because I'm afraid it's going to be a dead language in fifteen or twenty years. My grandmother speaks it quite fluently, daily, with all her friends. Neither my mom nor my aunts can keep up a conversation in it. It's a shame, really.

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    Image of Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
    11/11/08

    In reply to Céline Dion Destroys Quebec In Her 1991 Dodge Colt
    Why Dodge Colt "200"? What does that mean? Wheelbase in centimetres?
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    11/11/08

    @mr.chophoppers: It's got a 200 hour warranty.
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    11/10/08

    In reply to Céline Dion Destroys Quebec In Her 1991 Dodge Colt
    Wasn't there a similar commercial in which Willard Scott destroyed Wisconsin in an Eagle Summit? Sorry, '91 was blur.
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    Image of General_Zad's_Chicken General_Zad's_Chicken
    11/10/08

    In reply to Céline Dion Destroys Quebec In Her 1991 Dodge Colt
    And now we know how to save Chrysler again.
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    Image of Boosted Lego Wagon Boosted Lego Wagon
    11/10/08

    In reply to Céline Dion Destroys Quebec In Her 1991 Dodge Colt
    My heart will go on. My transmission on the other hand....
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