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Title: Oh What a Feeling, Toyota!
Post by: Enigmatic Entity on April 13, 2010, 08:52:49 pm: (http://l.yimg.com/ea/img/-/100414/toyotarock100414prov257-15s9uuc.jpg)

Has anything similar happened that you know of?

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/7058609/toyota-bouldered-over/
Title: Re: Oh What a Feeling, Toyota!
Post by: Aardwolf on April 13, 2010, 08:57:15 pm: /me has suggested this thread be moved to General Discussion

And... no.
Title: Re: Oh What a Feeling, Toyota!
Post by: Thaeris on April 13, 2010, 09:38:19 pm: Oh, come now. This is highly pertinent to FreeSpace in a symbolic sense - just look at the gratutious levels of overkill involved in destroying that auto.

:P
Title: Re: Oh What a Feeling, Toyota!
Post by: Vrets on April 13, 2010, 09:45:18 pm: I like to pretend that this is my neighbor's Prius.
Title: Re: Oh What a Feeling, Toyota!
Post by: Timerlane on April 13, 2010, 09:49:22 pm: Ah, that's an asteroid, and the car must have been put somewhere on Alpha 1's escort list... :P
Title: Re: Oh What a Feeling, Toyota!
Post by: Vrets on April 13, 2010, 09:58:54 pm: Beta 4: "Asteroids on a collision course will be auto-targeted with white brackets on your HUD"

Allied Command: "Prius is down! Redouble your efforts, pilots!"

Beta 4: "You suck, Alpha 1."

Alpha 1: "Shut up, Beta 4! It's just the secondary objective."
Title: Re: Oh What a Feeling, Toyota!
Post by: Mongoose on April 13, 2010, 10:06:46 pm: "The Prius has suffered catastrophic hull failure! I got forty-three buddies in escape pods and we're headed to the bar!"
Title: Re: Oh What a Feeling, Toyota!
Post by: ssmit132 on April 14, 2010, 12:58:56 am: It's not a Prius, it's a Yaris. :p

Also, what kind of idiot goes around hauling boulders without securing them?
Title: Re: Oh What a Feeling, Toyota!
Post by: headdie on April 14, 2010, 02:54:55 am: Quote from: ssmit132 on April 14, 2010, 12:58:56 am
It's not a Prius, it's a Yaris. :p

Also, what kind of idiot goes around hauling boulders without securing them?

that one apparently

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in othe rnews has anyone heard about the new lexus 4x4 (which is apparantly made by toyota) its stability control is usless and makes the car liable to roll
Title: Re: Oh What a Feeling, Toyota!
Post by: Mongoose on April 14, 2010, 03:06:11 am: They're sure batting a thousand right now, aren't they?
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Post by: BengalTiger on April 14, 2010, 04:20:13 pm: At least the boulder will keep the Yaris from accelerating uncontrollably.
Title: Re: Oh What a Feeling, Toyota!
Post by: headdie on April 14, 2010, 04:35:23 pm: still get the splat at the end
Title: Re: Oh What a Feeling, Toyota!
Post by: Androgeos Exeunt on April 14, 2010, 11:47:35 pm: There was this image of a Hummer that someone posted on IRC several days ago. It apparently shattered upon hitting the Magic School Bus' behind.
Title: Re: Oh What a Feeling, Toyota!
Post by: Wolfy on April 15, 2010, 07:19:01 pm: Oh, the car encounters rock was from derbyshire... suprise suprise ¬_¬. B&Q has an advert on tv which mentions "Derbyshire Paveing Slabs", which may explain how this incident occured. Who knew my home county was so interesting? i'm not leaving the house ever again 0_0