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    Image of danio3834 danio3834
    07:53 PM

    In reply to Jalopnik Monday Movie Night: Ronin
    This just in:

    Jalopnik hates Canadians

    Excludes non-Americans with video posts hosted by Hulu.
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    Image of Paul Y. don't drive too fast. Paul Y. don't drive too fast.
    07:55 PM

    @danio3834: We don't hate Canadians; we're just jealous because Canada is better.
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    Paul Y. don't drive too fast. was starred Paul Y. don't drive too fast. was unstarred
    Image of logruszed logruszed
    07:51 PM

    In reply to Jalopnik Monday Movie Night: Ronin
    Absolutely, and not just for the cinematics of the chase scenes but for the casting of the cars as well. They were realistic, quality choices that are reasonably capable of performing similarly to how they are depicted.
     Reply
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    Image of mr_dude mr_dude
    07:40 PM

    In reply to Jalopnik Monday Movie Night: Ronin
    Is this the special edition where they tell us what's in the briefcase (surprise: nothing, absolutely nothing) and at the end DeNiro says, 'Louie, I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship.'
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    Image of PatFromGundo PatFromGundo
    07:11 PM

    In reply to Jalopnik Monday Movie Night: Ronin
    I recommend playing the David Mamet Drinking Game (Mamet rewrote the screenplay under the alias "Richard Weisz.") Anytime a character utters a phrase that is clearly the work of Mamet, take a swig. Here are a few to watch for:

    "Did you ever kill a man?" "I hurt someone's feelings once."

    "Talk about an ambush? I ambushed you with a cup of coffee!"

    "Whenever there is doubt, there is no doubt."
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    Image of skitter skitter
    07:28 PM

    @PatFromGundo: Do not, under any circumstances, play this game while watching Heist. Death would be inescapable.

    I smell a horror franchise.
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    Image of PatFromGundo PatFromGundo
    07:41 PM

    @skitter: How about "Edmond?"

    [www.youtube.com]

    That handsome bartender who wanders into frame at 0:37? That would be PatFromGundo himself.
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    Image of skitter skitter
    06:54 PM

    In reply to Jalopnik Monday Movie Night: Ronin
    For those of you who haven't seen the movie, Matt is foolishly focusing on Katerina Witt, the ice skater near the end of the movie, rather than Natascha McElhone, the fantastic anti-heroine.
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    skitter was starred skitter was unstarred
    Image of Prawo Jazdy and The Velocity Trumpets: I miss Deartháir II Prawo Jazdy and The Velocity Trumpets: I miss Deartháir II
    06:43 PM

    In reply to Cadillac CTS Coupe: The Cadillac Of Coupes
    I have not been able to visit this site or my jfavorite Jalopnik fan site since I started slinging Cadillacs about 3 weeks ago. I have never been so damn excited about a product launch in my life that I am actually breaking company rules to post here and tell you that I have never been so excited about a product launch in my life.

    Repetition is key to sales.
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    Prawo Jazdy and The Velocity Trumpets: I miss Deartháir II was starred Prawo Jazdy and The Velocity Trumpets: I miss Deartháir II was unstarred
    Image of skitter skitter
    07:03 PM

    @Prawo Jazdy and The Velocity Trumpets: I miss Deartháir II: Break some more company rules and find me the RPO for "manual wagon".
     Reply
    skitter was starred skitter was unstarred
    Image of Prawo Jazdy and The Velocity Trumpets: I miss Deartháir II Prawo Jazdy and The Velocity Trumpets: I miss Deartháir II
    07:55 PM

    @skitter: MN6. Not available with 6DG69 (AWD) Which is total bullshit if you ask me.
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    Prawo Jazdy and The Velocity Trumpets: I miss Deartháir II was starred Prawo Jazdy and The Velocity Trumpets: I miss Deartháir II was unstarred
    Image of Bumblebee Bumblebee
    04:01 PM

    In reply to 2011 BMW 5 Series: Bangle Butt Goes Bye-Bye
    Ben: I've noticed in your posts recently that you have a problem with run on sentences: "The new Bimmer rides on a 2,968 mm wheelbase which affords 13 mm of extra legroom in the back, the cars will be offered in various markets with four gasoline engines and three diesels, including the top range 4.4-litre twin-turbo V8 and a 240 HP 2.8 liter inline-six (like a proper BMW)"

    Yikes.
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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    04:24 PM

    @Bumblebee: There, you happy now? Sheesh, everyone's a critic. I'm an engineer pretending to be a writer, be happy I don't express the car as a 10x10 matrix of equations.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    04:35 PM

    @Ben Wojdyla: I would love to see that.

    I wouldn't ever understand it, but it would be amusing.
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    03:55 PM

    In reply to 2011 BMW 5 Series: Bangle Butt Goes Bye-Bye
    Interesting.

    Still gonna be a douche-magnet.
     Reply
    that ain't the way to have fun, son was starred that ain't the way to have fun, son was unstarred
    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    03:29 PM

    In reply to 81-Year-Old Builds Replica World War II Fighter, Flies Cross-Country
    Imhoff's got stones. He built a supercar and then puts his own butt on the line when he climbs in and fires it up.

    But let's be very real - if Ken screws up, he doesn't fall out of the sky. Engine quits, you just step out, swear a few times and flip open the phone for AAA. If O'Hara has a sudden headslap moment - I tied a granny knot in the throttle control cable! - stepping out of the vehicle doesn't happen right away. There may not be time to flip open the phone.

    If I could have my druthers I'd want full-scale but that may just be sour grapes talking - I haven't done anything 1/10th this awesome, ever.

    Mad props, Jim - counter-rotating ones!
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    Image of bmoreDLJ bmoreDLJ
    03:03 PM

    In reply to 2011 BMW 5 Series: Bangle Butt Goes Bye-Bye
    The Buick Regal is far prettier.
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    Image of bmoreDLJ bmoreDLJ
    02:49 PM

    In reply to 2011 BMW 5 Series: Bangle Butt Goes Bye-Bye
    It's an improvement over the E60, but not as nice as the F01 7-series.

    The hood is awfully busy though, something the Chrysler Sebring was mercilessly derided for.
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    Image of coupeZ600 coupeZ600
    02:37 PM

    In reply to 81-Year-Old Builds Replica World War II Fighter, Flies Cross-Country
    My Dad was 17 when the U.S. entered WW II after Pearl Harbor, and while he signed up wanting to go fight, because he already knew how to fly he was made an instructor and never left the States until the war was already over. This caused an amazing amount of bitterness, because they kept telling him they would transfer him to a combat unit, but never did. Only about 20 years ago did he realize this might have been a really good thing.

    So he flew a P-38 trainer, a two-seater like the ones pauljones and Ash78 have posted below, and his job was pretty simple: Take the new guy with him for a couple of days while the rest of the class/squadron played "Follow The Leader", then move that guy to his own P-38 at the back of the line. Take the guy that had moved up all the way to right behind him over to HQ, where they would make up a squadron of the other instructors graduates, who would then learn formation flying while getting the last of their hours ferrying themselves and some new planes to the Pacific or European meat-grinders. Grab a new guy, put him in the seat behind him and go scare the hell out of him while trying to ditch the rest of the class. Get him into a plane at the back of the line, and repeat, for one war. Since his bosses didn't really care where he went as long as he got some flight-hours into the guys, he'd just go exploring, all over Arizona, California, Utah and Nevada (he was based in Kingman and Yuma, AZ), even taking his row of ducks deep into Mexico a few times. All this helped a ton when after the war he got a degree in mining engineering and was sent out into the middle of BFE on mining explorations and prospecting trips for Phelps-Dodge.
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    Edited by coupeZ600 at 11/23/09 2:41 PM coupeZ600 was starred coupeZ600 was unstarred
    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    02:30 PM

    In reply to 2011 BMW 5 Series: Bangle Butt Goes Bye-Bye
    Bangle maybe gone, but I have reasons to believe that Hooydonk is worse. He brought us the ugly 7-series and the extremely mediocre looking 3-series.

    And the new 5-series is no different. It looks like a bloated 3-series. I am disappointed. It looks like nothing.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    02:37 PM

    @Pessimippopotamus: Prior to Bangle, BMWs were always precisely that: handsome, but underwhelming. They didn't stand out in the crowd, and they weren't meant to. They were meant to be quiet, yet superbly competent cars for the owner that wished to be treated to a luxurious car, but without rubbing their wealth in everyone else's face.

    That is precisely what a BMW should be, and why I like BMW worlds better than either Mercedes-Benx or Audi.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    03:08 PM

    @pauljones: I can't agree. Old BMWs were never "underwhelming" in their own time. They seem underwhelming now that current BMWs are so crazy looking, but what cars aren't these days?

    Consider the E39. Insanely handsome car. In its time, the rivals were the C5 A6 and the W210 E-Class. Not better looking nor were they more flashy. They were all on the same level of restraint. A6 being more dawdy than others. In fact, in many ways the E39 was shoutier than its contemporaries with its halo headlights and the deep cut lines along the side.

    If anything, they weren't boring like this one is.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    03:48 PM

    @Pessimippopotamus: The W210s with their catfish headlights and big chrome grilles were far flashier than the E39, and at the time they were introduced, were as controversial as Bangle's early designs are now; though I do concede the point with regards to the Audi.

    I do think, though, that neither the Audi not the Mercedes aged well, while the E39 has remained timelessly handsome.
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    Edited by pauljones at 11/23/09 3:50 PM pauljones was starred pauljones was unstarred
    Image of tonyola tonyola
    02:30 PM

    In reply to 2011 BMW 5 Series: Bangle Butt Goes Bye-Bye
    I don't like the blunt nose (thanks for nothing, EU pedestrian regulations), but overall, it's an improvement over the E60. Still not as nice as the E39 though.
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    Image of FightingChance FightingChance
    02:41 PM

    @tonyola: I came in to say this - goodbye to Bangle Butt, hello to Euro Snout! Rather than addressing driver/pedestrian attitudes and training, let's turn the fronts of all cars into complicated affairs of angles and hood prop gadgets. BMW gets off easy I think since their heritage is flat fronts like this anyway; what's going to happen to other cars like Mercedes who are traditionally sleek?
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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    02:43 PM


    @FightingChance: Sleek?
     Reply
    Ben Wojdyla was starred Ben Wojdyla was unstarred
    Image of Paul Y. don't drive too fast. Paul Y. don't drive too fast.
    02:52 PM

    @Ben Wojdyla: Nothing says 'sleek' like a car intended for anthropology professors.
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    Paul Y. don't drive too fast. was starred Paul Y. don't drive too fast. was unstarred
    Image of FightingChance FightingChance
    02:54 PM

    @Ben Wojdyla: I was thinking more recent Mercs like an SLK, but point taken.

    #tips
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    02:57 PM


    @FightingChance: Sleek?
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    pauljones was starred pauljones was unstarred
    Image of FightingChance FightingChance
    03:11 PM

    @pauljones: Everyone stop picking on meeeee!
     Reply
    FightingChance was starred FightingChance was unstarred
    Image of pauljones pauljones
    03:35 PM

    @FightingChance: Lol, I'm just playing.

    #tips
     Reply
    pauljones was starred pauljones was unstarred
    Image of Rust-MyEnemy Rust-MyEnemy
    02:28 PM

    In reply to 2011 BMW 5 Series: Bangle Butt Goes Bye-Bye
    I would never have believed it, but I really think I'd rather have the 5 Series Grand Turismo, or an X6 even.

    The controversy of the E60 must have scared the shit out of BMW for them to have blanded out so completely this time round.

    It's frightening, I think Benz are winning.
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