Fun Stuff
Granny airbag
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By CarsGuide team · 20 Feb 2009
Age and guile beat youth, impatience and a prestige badge on the grille (with apologies to PJ O'Rourke).
Suzuki with gills
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By CarsGuide team · 20 Feb 2009
Just what you need for those rainy days ... a little Suzuki that just keeps going even when underwater!
Land Cruiser pancake
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By CarsGuide team · 20 Feb 2009
This is one way to make sure cars don't take up too much room in landfill ... give them to the mining boys to play with.
Toyota ad in Scotland
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By CarsGuide team · 20 Feb 2009
And this explains why we don't see very many commercials shot around the Scottish lochs.
Lunch time at the Ford factory
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By CarsGuide team · 20 Feb 2009
We're just not sure who is playing with who in this stunt. But it looks like fun anyway... us next, please.
Fantastic Machine
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By CarsGuide team · 20 Feb 2009
Rumour had it that this was a real machine, built from car parts by a university engineering department. That's an urban myth, of course. It's actually a computer animation, but one of the best we've seen.
Disappearing car door
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By CarsGuide team · 20 Feb 2009
What a clever idea... do away with side-hinged doors altogether, eliminate the B-pillar, and get better access through a rotary drop door. But we'd miss designs like the Mercedes-Benz Gullwing 300SL.
Senior driver
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By CarsGuide team · 20 Feb 2009
Well, she probably had other things to think about ... what's for dinner, what to feed the cat ... everthing but her rear vision mirror. Of course, it's a movie. it wouldn't happen in real life, would it?
Texting on a motorcycle
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By CarsGuide team · 20 Feb 2009
No, we don't think this is clever. No, we don't think this is skilled riding. We think this is one of the most stupid stunts we've ever seen.
Human Car Ford
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By CarsGuide team · 20 Feb 2009
...an advertisment featuring the American dance troupe Pilobolus, whose dexterity with their bodies and a few car parts makes for an entertaining version of Twister.