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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    02/27/09

    In reply to Toyota Now Renting Shipping Vessels To Store Unsold Cars
    STOP BUILDING THE GODDAMN THINGS.


    Shitheads.

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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    02/27/09

    In reply to Toyota Now Renting Shipping Vessels To Store Unsold Cars
    So, is that the S.S. Dealership, or the S.S. Receivership?
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    Image of sos10 sos10
    02/27/09

    In reply to Toyota Now Renting Shipping Vessels To Store Unsold Cars
    In the Belgium harbor of Zeebrugge, 175.000 new cars are waiting for clients. It is the largest parking area in the world; 742 acres.


    [www.telegraaf.nl]

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    Image of Bret Bret
    02/27/09

    In reply to Toyota Now Renting Shipping Vessels To Store Unsold Cars
    Hmm... There is a cubic buttload of unused shipping containers right now just sitting around stacked and empty.


    You could probably roll a couple Toyotas into each one and then stack 'em Wall-e style.

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    Image of SirNotAppearing SirNotAppearing
    02/27/09

    In reply to Toyota Now Renting Shipping Vessels To Store Unsold Cars
    Oh, the humidity!
    I'm sorry, that was the last one, I promise. For today.
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    Image of Boosted Lego Wagon Boosted Lego Wagon
    02/27/09

    In reply to Toyota Now Renting Shipping Vessels To Store Unsold Cars
    That's a lotta pickup-trucks they're fitting into that Nissan Cube there.
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    Image of vwminispeedster, pronounded Si-trow-in vwminispeedster, pronounded Si-trow-in
    02/27/09

    @boosted-lego-wagon: see reply to beercheck above. the comment works here too.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    02/27/09

    In reply to Toyota Now Renting Shipping Vessels To Store Unsold Cars
    The grand prizes, this year, for Tim Horton's "Roll Up the Rim" contest, are 35 Toyota Venzas. Every single person I've heard comment on it at a Timmy's has said some variation of, "That's the grand prize? Fuck, I hope they have a cash option if you actually win. I wouldn't even be able to sell that thing, nevermind drive it."
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    Image of B1663R B1663R
    02/27/09

    @Deartháir: beats the Matrix's they were giving away last year... besides you frenchies ALWAYS win the cars. the rest of the country gets stuck with DVD players and bikes... and by rest of the country i just mean Ontario :)
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    02/27/09

    @B1663R: you frenchies


    Hey now, no reason to be insulting.


    I'm from Western Canada. A BC boy living in Alberta.

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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    02/27/09

    @Deartháir: Now you've got me picturing someone getting their cup from TimmyHo's, rolling up the rim and seeing they won a Venza. In my imaginary world, that person then yells, "Man! I never win!"
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    02/27/09

    @Deartháir: Oh thank god. I thought I had to unclicky that heart.
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    Image of P.Ξ.L.M. wonders if he should change his Xterra P.Ξ.L.M. wonders if he should change his Xterra
    02/27/09

    @B1663R: I'm a frenchie.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    02/27/09

    @Pelm, driving across La Belle Province all year round!: It's okay, we've forgiven you for that, since you guys gave us poutine.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    02/27/09

    @Deartháir: I almost read it out loud as putain, then I remembered the e at the end. My highschool French is rustique.
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    Image of B1663R B1663R
    02/28/09

    @Deartháir: OH MY GOD!!!


    the accent egout over the A was my jumping point... i'm sorry for accusing you of being a filthy, pepsi-drinkin', May west-eating, separatist.


    PCL 4EVA!! (they are big there right?)

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    Image of B1663R B1663R
    02/28/09

    @Pelm, driving across La Belle Province all year round!: Pepsi-drinking, May west eatin' separatist


    VIVE LE PARTIE QUEBECOIS!! (They are big there right?)

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    Image of bynddrvn bynddrvn
    02/27/09

    In reply to Toyota Now Renting Shipping Vessels To Store Unsold Cars
    Almost as many cars as the sea of unsold cars in Long Beach, CA. Why are car company's storing cars near the ocean? New cars, now with more rust!
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    Image of P161911 probably shoudn't have P161911 probably shoudn't have
    02/27/09

    @bynddrvn: "Why are car company's storing cars near the ocean?"


    Becasue there aren't too may shipping ports in the desert.


    They aren't worth paying even more freight to move inland.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    02/27/09

    @bynddrvn: I mean, come on. They're even Toyotas, and we know their Achilles heel by now.
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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    02/27/09

    In reply to Toyota Now Renting Shipping Vessels To Store Unsold Cars
    You should see the ship they're storing the ships on.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    02/27/09

    @beercheck: Yeah, but it can't possibly be interesting if they're hired by Toyota.
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    Image of dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity
    02/27/09

    @beercheck: Good one!

    However, it is quite common:
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    Image of vwminispeedster, pronounded Si-trow-in vwminispeedster, pronounded Si-trow-in
    02/27/09

    @beercheck: yo dawg I herd you like cars so we put a car in you car so you can drive while u drive [www.encircling.us]
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    02/27/09

    In reply to Toyota Now Renting Shipping Vessels To Store Unsold Cars
    They contacted several race tracks and military bases, but were laughed at and mercilessly mocked. One such race track owner was overheard saying, "Det skulle vara farligt för oss att lagra dina bilar någonstans i närheten av spåret. Själva ENFORMIGHET av dina mönster kan orsaka förare att somna i mitten av loppet, som ni kan föreställa er, skulle få ödesdigra konsekvenser."


    In English, it roughly translates to "Get that boring shit off my track!"

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    Image of SirNotAppearing SirNotAppearing
    02/27/09

    @engineerd wants to be friends with Diddles: He then added, "A moose bit my sister once."
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    02/27/09

    @SirNotAppearing: En älg bit min syster en gång.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    02/27/09

    @engineerd wants to be friends with Diddles: Then he added. "She ate that f*ing moose."
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    02/27/09

    @SirNotAppearing: Mind you, moose bites can be pretty nasti...
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    02/27/09

    @Foozy Ploosh Room: Particularly if the are rabid moose.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    02/27/09

    @engineerd wants to be friends with Diddles: the = they


    I've been drinking since 2 and I think its starting to kick in.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    02/28/09

    @engineerd: I totally thought you wrote "...since I WAS 2..."
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    Image of Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
    03/01/09

    @Foozy Ploosh Room: Y'alls horrible Swedish is hurting my brain. The meaning comes across, sure, but still...


    "Models" can also translate into the Swedish word for "patterns", with dire consequences for the sentence.

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    Image of MrBangBam MrBangBam
    02/27/09

    In reply to Toyota Now Renting Shipping Vessels To Store Unsold Cars
    How about just stop producing cars?


    Or even better, not spend money on renting a shipping vessel and give away the cars to needy for good publicity?


    I dont know. Putting it unsold cars on a ship seems like a bland, vanilla solution.

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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    02/27/09

    @MrBangBam: I like bland vanilla! I will not have you go insulting ice cream flavors!
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    Image of Saboth Saboth
    02/27/09

    @MrBangBam:


    Instead of giving the cars to the needy, lets give them to people that have good credit scores, and bought mortgages they can afford, and did everything right. The "needy" are already getting mortgage bailouts and free healthcare. Let's see some rewards for the responsible, hard working joe for a change.

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    Image of Jim Topoleski Jim Topoleski
    02/27/09

    @Saboth: You do realize the hardworking joe is 80% of the people who fucked up their credit and bought mortgages they couldn't afford...


    But your obviously a conservative whose buying into that whole its the lower and middle class screwing us bit from the republicans love so much.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    02/28/09

    @Jim Topoleski: I'm sorry you lost your job.
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    Image of jduffy13 jduffy13
    02/27/09

    In reply to Toyota Now Renting Shipping Vessels To Store Unsold Cars
    There are still tons of Toyotas all over the place here in SoCal.


    They should just start holding raffles for these things. At least they'd get rid of some of the cars and get some cash coming in.

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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    02/27/09

    @jduffy13: Socal eh? What part?
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    02/27/09

    In reply to Toyota Now Renting Shipping Vessels To Store Unsold Cars
    Y'know, they could bring the wagons and Hiluxes here and sell 'em within a few weeks.


    Damn Swedes don't know how good they got it when we're stuck with Bloatundras and Venzas.

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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    02/27/09

    @Foozy Ploosh Room: I was about to say that. The Hilux always was a little under rated.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    02/27/09

    @Syrax: And indestructable, or so I hear.
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    Image of al_beaton al_beaton
    01/21/09

    In reply to Where Are Automakers Stashing Unsold Cars?
    I knew the weather had been bad in England, but Pic 10 is really something!


    The last time I went past Corby, it was at least fifty miles from the sea...

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    Image of Marc Girolimetti Marc Girolimetti
    01/21/09

    In reply to Where Are Automakers Stashing Unsold Cars?
    In Boston, behind my condo building, Subaru has somewhere between 600-1000 vehicles sitting in what they told the neighborhood association, was temporary space, which means they have another 2000 or so in their regular holding location on the

    Mystic River. It's amazing.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    01/21/09

    @Marc Girolimetti: I read that as "in the Mystic River"...
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