Is Apple's iCar in a German auto magazine? Probably not.
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted Jun 13th 2008 11:57PM
posted Jun 13th 2008 11:57PM
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Ah! It's Jason!
Friday the 13th...
I see, but it scared the hell of out me.
Best not create a spamchain for posting some random crap there. I still get some fool posting in this thread: http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/25/the-second-gen-iphone-3g-gps-only-slightly-thicker/
Ok, not even I dislike the Engadget-Apple love that much that I have to bitch about it in some poor bugger's comment thread.
Oh that bastard Ryan has been holding out on us... light the torches! Off with his head!!
MarkD:
There's a "Contact Us" link on the right panel. Use it if you want certain news covered that isn't on Engadget. Posting irrelevant info under the first poster is unnecessary and annoying.
I'm just glad I'm not the only one seeing him!
Awesome. Now I can get a $30,000 iPod accessory. Just what I always wanted.
MarkD,
Thanks again for the link, delivering news on what Engadget fails to mention due to an intrinsic Apple bias.
Nice to see Apple getting stomped by everyone and their cousins in the Laptop sector.
Only 4.6% of the laptop market, pathetic. :D
The Jason crap is freaking me out
oo Hai Jason!
Heh, I didn't even notice it. I though he was an alien at first >_>. Nicely done, Engadget.
Well done? He posted the post 3 minutes before midnight, so anyone east of pacific time wouldn't really get the link to the day.
Your crap Comment is worst then any post , TooL
I noticed Jason on a few of the other Autoblog posts as well. Hacked perhaps?
Friday the 13th .. Get it
No it's deliberate, it's Friday the 13th, and well I think they've taken it a bit too far...
Check the date :)
It's amazing that it is Friday the 13th, because everything has gone right today. I rescued a Husky, and essentially was handed two thousand dollars "to spend on anything that will benefit my education" in front of a few hundred people. Usually, the 13th drags on FOREVAR.
My e-peen simply cannot compete with Striker's! Not worthy!
I ate a sandwich at lunch, it was pretty good. Well made.
I've always wanted rear-facing fluorescent illuminated seats for my car.
I actually had a dream Apple made cars.
They came in white or Black, they looked like 2003 infiniti G35s, but a bit more rounded.
Ahh, the iCar. It costs $40k, gets 20 MPG, only goes up to 55 MPH(because no one needs to go faster, really), and only comes in white, or RED for $10k more.
Oh, I forgot. You can't work on the car, you have to send it in to Apple if something goes wrong and it is locked onto only one gas station. If you go to another gas station you get penalized.
wow. I love apple, but that is freaking hysterical. nice one.
mcbunt, do us all a favor
kill yourself
then press your capslock key once.
Sounds about right, now watch the iFools line up to buy one.
HIghest ranked is back!
Old but still valid...
If Microsoft Made Cars...
1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive, but would run on only five percent of the roads.
6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light.
7. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.
8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
9. Every time a new car was introduced, car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again, because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
10. Oh yeah, and last but not least . . . you'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off!
dont forget about the icar shuffle. it has no windows and takes you to a random destination on its route list.
Ok .. Your starting drama on Engadget by looking up old post.. Wow .. i am at a loss for words .. you my friend are amazing .. All bow down to the great McBUNT !
I GREATLY ENJOY THE USE OF THE CAPSLOCK KEY
Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill Nye The Science Guy.
NO WAI, I LUV TEH CAPS LOCK TOO DAWG.
WHOA
like, 5 comments were just deleted, including, but not limited to, every single post made by McBUNT.
therefore making all of my comments look dumb and out of place
Sorry man! I'd still prefer them gone.
I was wondering who McBUNT was. Did he miss the "L"? Because McBLUNT would've been a dank-ass name. I hereby claim it as an alias.
Hehehee... I wish I had seen what that clown said. :D
yeah, i don't really mind, he was being an idiot, it's just that all of my comments here relied on his stupidity...
Is it just me, or did the Motorola article about half of R&D Division being cut disappear? When I go back to it from my iPod touch's history, it shows no article but a list of relevant articles. I really think that this censorship is getting to be too much, it is okay for that McBunt guy, but deleting whole articles without explanation is unacceptable.
Don't confuse self censorship with constitutional right. The editors here have the right to cut whatever they want whether or not you, I or anyone else likes it. This blog belongs to them.
I'm just curious as to what happened to the article, that's all. I'm playing nice Chuck, because, after all I could just stare it out of them.
maybe there was a caps overload
Sorry Ryan for that outburst at McBUNT .. I will probably lose my job one day because i read Engadget for 7.5 hrs out of my 8 hr work day .. And i hate when someone attacks a post .. any post is a good post in my eyes
I hear that they're making this Apple vehicle twice as fast for half the price. It's going to be called the iCar 3G. The only problem is that you have to take it an Apple store in order to have it activated. This car will be released in over 70 countries and will probably end up as the best selling smartcar of all times. The only problem now is that every other car company is going to copy it and then arrogantly call the copies iCar killers.
Whether iPhone killers or iCar killers, they'll never succeed, so they might as well quit while they're ahead.
Apple iCar = MEGAWIN
It's not a smartcar because it can't copy/paste!!
Microsoft made something similar which is bigger but it has FIVE GODDAMN PROJECTORS!!
(...and I still don't know why either of these points matter)
The auto industry is already crowded with many big players, I think they should go ahead with that iRack instead.
I dunno... the iRack looks like something we shouldn't be involved with.
Steve Jobs drinks brandy?....That's spooky! (not Jason)
- "The iRack looks unstable."
- "Trust me. The intelligence briefings I got on the iRack are completely credible."
Fuckin' reply button. From hell's heart I stab at thee.
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!
WHO is that cute guy next to the car?
It's a bad photoshopped fake! If you look at the inside of the car, the REAR window is looking to the right... where the driver's seat should be !!. And the seats are looking BACKWARDS !
The only real looking thing on the picture is Mr. Jason :-)
I think you're right. I do see a partition. It must be dual boot so I assume that means it has an engine at both ends.
Are they going to make an iGarage to park it in next to your iHouse, then take an iDrive on sundays down to the iMcDs for an iMcBurger
AGGHHHHHH
I seem to be suffering from iRage, but if the iCar comes out I'm sure it will be shiny and nice and all the iTards will gush about the engineering and the genius but most iTards will be too stupid to realise they just designed a body to sit on a golf/beetle with VW doing all the hard bits behind the scenes much like Intel and IBM before them.
It looks like a Audi symbol on the side of the back seat....
i am not saying this is a fake, but it is definatly not an iCar. Apple is in the technology business and has no reason to release a car. It looks absolutely horrific as well, so i doubt this has anything to do with Apple. they said it had a iPhone on top of it, but it could be a promo to have people to buy this car, they will throw in a iPhone as a free gift. Apple is not as big in other countries as they are in america, so i doubt even if they released a iCar that it would come out in Germany.
but it looks like a European concept car, which are even uglier than American concept cars. Though it could be a real car, it is not the iCar.
Thank goodness this is not a real car, yet. Apple needs to stick to what they do best, making ipods and macs (i hate the iphones). maybe this is a shitty attempt to help raise their stocks due to monday (went down by 8 dollars, or about 6 points.)
Icar...lol. So will they follow suit and not allow you to change the oil or fill the gas yourself? Oh I know, the first model will have a max speed of 55mph and then two weeks later release a "newer" model that does 65. I guess it'll take Igas too, which is basically gas but 2$ more a gal. Which you'll purchase at the Applestation. Oh and it'll probably cost upwards of 50k to buy the car in the first place, but Macfans will buy anything as long as it has a Apple logo.
Coming soon: iPod shampoo, iPhone chips and iMac restaurants... Ummm I'm hungry!!!!
Quit diversifying too much apple!!!!
OMG I can't believe anyone every want to willingly drive that ugly piece of crap.. The only thing it evokes in me would be the urge to smash into that thing with my SUV just to get the annoying ugly looking thing looking anything better..
Ok I'll say it
THIS IS NOT iCAR
there easy, why would VW leak an image when jobs would probably want to drive it on stage.
The whole concept of an iCar is frankly ridiculous, but then a SMART car is Swatch & Mercedes so who knows.
So engadget I say if an iCar breaks loose Apple is "jumping the shark" or disappearing up Job's asshole.
According to AutoBild where this article comes from, it was just talking about the possibly of your mobile (cellphone) telling you information like how much fuel is in your tank and where it is.
see:
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.autobild.de%2Fartikel%2Fso-simpel-wie-ein-ipod_718909.html&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=de&tl=en
Does it come with that terrorist or is he optional.
what's up with that masked dude???