well folks here it is the new company car of the leader of the free world
tinyurl.com/95xrt2
Edited by Pugugly on 15/01/2009 at 18:48
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its a bling ting.. he will never need it or ever use it
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please no pimp mobile jokes we dont want a visit from the secret service
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or just for giggles you can bid on his old car on ebay
tinyurl.com/7h862x
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And the previous generation cars will have been as safe for the occupants. And being were ugly cars. But to advance things this is more ugly. It might look okay from the inside (I hope).
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It's so ugly, it's like Detroit begging the Prez for a mercy killing.
its a bling ting.. he will never need it or ever use it
I think he'll need it, sadly.
(edit: why the hell does this post appear in this position?!?)
Edited by mojolicious on 15/01/2009 at 09:40
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(edit: why the hell does this post appear in this position?!?)
Switch to 'view threaded' and all should become clear. In short, your message is tagged onto whoever's message you replied to.
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=71132&...t
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its a bling ting.. he will never need it or ever use it
he will. The security service will insist on it. But which one? there wil lbe three of four decoys.
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Must be an Ali G thing.....
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That's an ugly car (aside: what's this "free world" thing? surely "leader of the last totalitarian regieme"). It's apparently a diesel, so I'd guess it's a disguised lorry.
The last famous "Beast" had a 37L (I think) engine in it.
Edited by FotheringtonThomas on 14/01/2009 at 23:41
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it was tongue in cheek but i forgot the " "'s
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Search for "John Dodd" "The Beast".
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Search for "John Dodd" "The Beast".
You mean the 27L Rolls Royce Merlin (Spitfire) engined car of the 70's. Caused a stir with RR as it had a RR grille and they were not happy about this. I believe the car eventually got toasted on a trip to the continent if my memory serves me well.
I saw this car at a couple of shows and on the road in the 70's. I saw it a few times around the South London streets where I lived as a kid. I believe John Dodd lived not too far away.
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>> Search for "John Dodd" "The Beast". You mean the 27L Rolls Royce Merlin (Spitfire) engined car of the 70's.
That's the one - it's still around, apparently, but in Spain.
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Let's hope it protects him - we need him!
Judge for yourself the credibility of the advert for the old car - 2005 Chrysler 300C, driven by Barack Obama from 2004 to 2007. Some Americans will believe anything....
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AFAIK americans refer to the following year when aging their cars i.e a car brought new in 2004 would be called the 2005 model (dont ask me why they are americans afterall but all my american friends do it)
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AFAIK Americans refer to the following year when aging their cars i.e a car brought new in 2004 would be called the 2005 model (dont ask me why they are Americans afterall but all my American friends do it)
Well, we refer to 2009 as being in the 21st century.
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Well we refer to 2009 as being in the 21st century.
It is , isn't it
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The model year begins around September in the US. So, 2009 models have been in the showrooms for four months (alongside the previous year's models). Dealers spend the final four months of the year holding massive (supposedly) sales 'events' to flog the remaining stock to make room for the next model year.
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>>"One of the specifications is that we don't talk about the specifications," he said. <<
Can you imagine going to buy a new car at a main dealers, and upon asking about your choice, the salesman came out with that quote? ;-) would you still buy?
Billy
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What exactly is the President's new car?
Looks like a huge stretched 4x4 with bonnet and boot.
Moved from a new thread and clipped on to the bottom of the existing one
Edited by Pugugly on 24/01/2009 at 18:18
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It's not a beauty, but it looks a bit more like a car than the ghastly submarine thing the appalling Bush used to go about in.
The new president certainly needs security. Of course they all do since Kennedy, but no one should doubt the presence of very mad racists and very bad robber barons in the US quite apart from foreign psychopaths with their range of pseudo-political and pseudo-religious excuses. I hope the Secret Service is taking all this seriously.
By the way, I am impressed by the long overcoats the Obama heavies are wearing to go with their shaven heads and state-of-the-art electronic shades. No doubt they have special poacher's pockets to hold Uzis and cut-down Mossberg pumps... so much more suave than the naked Kalashes and rocket launchers presidential bodyguards used to carry in some of the more fraught African countries.
Keep them cocked, chaps.
(Incidentally, I thought the thread title referred to the famous hypo-allergenic-furred puppy he said he was going to get his nippers. Very up to date, the new prez).
Edited by Lud on 25/01/2009 at 14:24
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It's not a beauty but it looks a bit more like a car .....>>
I agree, looks OK to me for what it's supposed to do. Some dignity for the (rear) passenger(s) compared to UK Prime Ministers trying to shrink their necks so as to sit upright and still smile in the back of a Jaguar.
Would be good to have a quiz about what it weighs, but I guess that's part of the "specification".
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Would be good to have a quiz about what it weighs but I guess that's part of the "specification".
I heard it weighed about 14,000lbs and had a 6.5 Diesel engine
Also, when Obama's worn it out, it'll be destroyed to preserve its secrets. So you'll never be able to bid for it on Ebay and drive round town in it.
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compared to UK Prime Ministers trying to shrink their necks so as to sit upright and still smile in the back of a Jaguar.
I've posted this before, but still treasure the memory of Francis Pym and the French foreign minister, Roland Dumas I think, being compressed into a brown Whitehall Cortina Mk 4 with a driver and two, or possibly three, special branch heavies on Horse Guards Parade amid a scrum of hacks during the Falklands war. The two ministers, both small men, looked like a couple of naughty schoolboys being nicked and taken away for rowdiness.
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