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    Image of Vintage Racer - with V-12 goodness Vintage Racer - with V-12 goodness
    07/10/09

    In reply to RAF Red Arrows: When Ground Speed Is Not Enough
    Looks like I gotta play with the photo dimensions some more....
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    07/10/09

    In reply to RAF Red Arrows: When Ground Speed Is Not Enough
    Mild Ferrari threadjack....

    This was at the Pacific Northwest Historics in Seattle over the weekend...

    Chassis # 0666, the very first Ferrari Testarossa 250 TR. Built in 1957... best guesstimate is $20 mil... and it sounds as nice as it looks...

    SOVREN 2009 PNW Historics IMGP9517SOVREN 2009 PNW Historics IMGP9468SOVREN 2009 PNW Historics IMGP9845
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    Image of philibuster philibuster
    07/10/09

    In reply to RAF Red Arrows: When Ground Speed Is Not Enough
    One boule and one lap please.
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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    07/10/09

    In reply to RAF Red Arrows: When Ground Speed Is Not Enough
    Ahh, memories. The linked Jalopnik Breadvan post resulted in my favorite COTD of all time.
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    Image of Bentoboxx, My Tank is full of it Bentoboxx, My Tank is full of it
    07/10/09

    In reply to RAF Red Arrows: When Ground Speed Is Not Enough
    Wow, British Jets poop Glitter and Rainbows!
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    Image of sandbeige sandbeige
    07/10/09

    In reply to RAF Red Arrows: When Ground Speed Is Not Enough
    SO...would that be a Shooting Bake?
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    07/10/09

    @sandbeige: Shooting Bread?
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    Image of Gaseous Clay Gaseous Clay
    07/10/09

    In reply to RAF Red Arrows: When Ground Speed Is Not Enough
    The noise you hear is the sound of freedom. Freedom is awesome.
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    07/10/09

    In reply to RAF Red Arrows: When Ground Speed Is Not Enough
    I hope I don't get banhammered for doing a threadjack but I think you should see this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q2ZFP3ObvQ

    I thought the XJ rear end looked weird, but after video footage I think it looks perfect. BTW, don't know why, there's no audio.
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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    07/10/09

    @Syrax: The whole car's aesthetic looks better in motion. The high angle shots still make the taillights look a bit funny, but the low angle shots, particularly the first low angle drive by, the taillights look really nice. It's probably because it hides the wrap to the top of the vehicle. I don't think that the bahammer should swing for the threadjack, but the comment might be justifiably demoted to Tier 2 for lack of relevance to the post.
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    07/10/09

    @smalleyxb122: Nice review, including the demotion one.
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    Image of SigmundTheSeaMonster SigmundTheSeaMonster
    07/06/09

    In reply to Jalopnik's 20 Favorite Classic Volkswagen Commercials
    I heart Driving German Cars.
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    Image of jaymcminn jaymcminn
    07/06/09

    In reply to Jalopnik's 20 Favorite Classic Volkswagen Commercials
    The "Dah, dah, dah" ad didn't make the cut? Really? THe "Kleine GTI" ad and the '71 Karmann Ghia ad were brilliant, however.
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    07/06/09

    @jaymcminn: Yeah, that one's a classic.
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    Image of snapoversteer 'bout to get told snapoversteer 'bout to get told
    07/06/09

    In reply to Jalopnik's 20 Favorite Classic Volkswagen Commercials
    I appreciate that VW's ad money is the lion's share of the site's revenue stream, but aren't any of you in management worried about the credibility of a car site that doesn't acknowledge, at least once in a while, that the vast majority of VW's are utter pieces of overpriced crap driven by Apple Store shoppers who care more about a secret paint color you can only get on the internet than they do about driving dynamics or reliability?
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    07/06/09

    @snapoversteer: As long as I can keep lighting my cigars with Wolfsburg-supplied Benjamins, you won't hear a single bad word about any VW product from me! Same goes for Ssangyong!
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    Image of snapoversteer 'bout to get told snapoversteer 'bout to get told
    07/06/09

    @Murilee Martin: Nice. I didn't mean for my V-dub rant to accidentally splash bile on your entertaining ad retrospective. Your weekend postings are excellent.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    07/07/09

    @snapoversteer: No problem, just wanted to make it clear that we don't ever get any editorial pressure to say good or bad things about companies that do or don't advertise on our site.


    That said, if VW wants to send me a suitcase packed with cash, I'm all for it!

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    Image of Stoatmaster Stoatmaster
    07/06/09

    In reply to Jalopnik's 20 Favorite Classic Volkswagen Commercials
    The British series "If only everything in life was as reliable as a Volkswagen" had little stories about lifes vicissitudes, in which the punchline was the protagonist turning the key in their Golf.


    I'll always remember the morning after the casino guy, and the unfaithful husband woman.


    Oh, and the one where the couple are in the car for hundreds of miles, and everything is perfect except for this continula tiny squeak. Despite endless searching, they can't find the source. Eventually they pull into a tiny service station in the desert, and the gnarly old proprietor leans into the car, looks around, and puts a drop of oil on the womans pendant earrings.

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    Image of the_gank the_gank
    07/06/09

    In reply to Jalopnik's 20 Favorite Classic Volkswagen Commercials
    How about the GTI vs Prius "how does your Prius sound commercial?


    Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww :D

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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    07/06/09

    @the_gank: It's actually hawking the Jetta TDI, but yeah, it's pretty good.
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    Image of tonyola tonyola
    07/05/09

    In reply to Jalopnik's 20 Favorite Classic Volkswagen Commercials
    You missed the "1949 Auto Show" ad from 1969:


    Absolute classic.

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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    07/06/09

    @tonyola: Genius ad. I wonder if, years from now, Hyundai or Kia might make a similar one costarring Plymouth, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Isuzu and whoever else croaks before the end of the Carpocalypse.
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    Image of PotbellyJoe - As seen on I-287 PotbellyJoe - As seen on I-287
    07/05/09

    In reply to Jalopnik's 20 Favorite Classic Volkswagen Commercials
    I still can't find a digital copy of the ad, but I remember it from my youth (early 90s I guess) It was a VW herder that had a farm with all of these VWs on it driving around. The ad ends with the farmer stating "You can tell by the gleam in the daytime running lights, these are happy cars!"


    It's a line that has stuck with me ever since.

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    07/05/09

    @PotbellyJoe: Somewhere a marketing man just got his wings.
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