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MDI's "AirCar" officially becomes the FlowAIR {Engadget}
Oct 10th 2008 5:05PM But can you fill it with Smug?
MDI's "AirCar" officially becomes the FlowAIR {Engadget}
Oct 10th 2008 5:00PM Your logical collapses under its own premise. If you believe God exists because "something" had to create the universe from "nothing", then what created God? To counter the ad infinitum problem, people such as yourself will claim, "God is infinite". Of course, once again, you undermine your own logic. If you concede that the infinite is possible, then why do you assume there was ever time where there was "nothing"?
NeuroSky and Square Enix set to demo mind-controlled gaming {Engadget}
Oct 7th 2008 5:55PM "You mean you have to use your hands? That's like a baby's toy".
Clarkson: "Almost certainly the worst car in the entire world" {Autoblog}
Oct 6th 2008 1:48AM Care to try again? Perhaps this time with a factual rebuttal devoid of non-sequitur pop-culture references?
Clarkson: "Almost certainly the worst car in the entire world" {Autoblog}
Oct 5th 2008 8:05PM It was presented as a new episode in the States. Even if it was 3 years old, that truck was - as you point out - 2 years out of production and a decade-old design. Ford does not retool for a new model, then continue to produce the old model in a right-hand-only version 2 years on, so it wasn't "new" to the UK (at best, it was a "new" after-market - not factory - RHD conversion). So there was nothing "factually" wrong with what I said. Why review an out-of-production truck and present it as new if not to give Clarkson another opportunity to peddle his tired schtick? What's next? Clarkson reviews the K car? The Corvair? Its getting old.
Clarkson: "Almost certainly the worst car in the entire world" {Autoblog}
Oct 5th 2008 6:29PM "An economics, history, and sociology lecture in a chrysler sebring review?" It takes no talent to spout of inaccuracies and uninformed opinions. Now, if he he had done a piece on the fabulous history of English automotive manufacturing, that would have been clever. Or perhaps a history lesson on English appeasement and its impact on the Second World War. Or a sociological dissertation on socialism and its contribution to the slow decline of England's relevance in geopolitics, science, and
industry. Or, etc., etc., etc. Fit any of those lessons into a auto column, and you'd be clever indeed.
WowWee's Rovio gets reviewed: it's one awesome robotic sentry {Engadget}
Oct 5th 2008 5:55PM I'm taking this thing to the mall and collecting some new material for my up-skirt site. Wait...maybe I shouldn't have typed that on a public blog...
Clarkson: "Almost certainly the worst car in the entire world" {Autoblog}
Oct 5th 2008 5:52PM Also, caught a fresh episode of "Top Gear" the other day where Clarkson was testing a Ford F-150 Lightening. Of course he skewered it. Fine, but why was he flogging a truck that was over a decade old. It ranked right up there with the time they came to the States and totally faked a "redneck attack". The schtick is getting tired.
Clarkson: "Almost certainly the worst car in the entire world" {Autoblog}
Oct 5th 2008 5:43PM I like Clarkson, but with regards to not knowing "history", apparently American manufactuers (primarily Ford) know enough of it to be the makers of 4 of the top 10 selling brands in Britain. Further, they know it well enough to outlast or buy outright every English automotive mark. Do his criticisms extend to the venerated brands of Rover, Jaguar, Aston Martin, Bentley, and Rolls Royce, all of which would be "history" if it weren't for other, non-English
companies? And where are the cars of BMC? Surely they must have been well versed in "history"?
As for quality, critics seem to conveniently forget that American cars are - by design - less expensive than their Japanese and European counterparts (that's before the Euro tacks on its protectionist tariffs and actually makes these cars MORE expensive than the home team effort). If the Big 3 wanted were to tack-on an extra $2,000 to $3,000 to their base prices, then these remarks would hold water. But
considering what you pay, the quality of American brands are very, very good, and often beat their euro counterparts in customer service tests. But reason never stopped anyone from some good ol' America-bashing; it plays very well over there.
Jeep CJ-7 turned General Lee violates natural order of things {Autoblog}
Oct 5th 2008 2:11PM Awesome, but there are large swaths of this country where you would be ill-advised to drive it.
