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I'm guessing this is just a concept car. I believe the whole idea of driving with a joystick has been conceptualized before, but deemed impractical--after all, as "crude" as they may seem, steering wheel and pedals offer a tactile sensation and level of feedback that I just don't think a joystick could equal.

This is the new Mercedes Benz SCL600. Nothing too spectacular from looking at the outside, right? "No steering wheel, you drive it with a joystick. No pedals either. Can you drive with a joystick? Your kids and grandkids probably can. The influence of video games in our lives has really arrived, wouldn't ya say?"

No sir, I don't like it.... This whole glass-roof thing is a trend that just needs to go away.

They outta work that into the movie somewhere... "You'll put your eye out, kid!"

LMAOROTF! --You're a pair o' t*ts, you know that?!

New[?] TVR model: the Sagaris. Hmm, has some "Dodge Viper-esque" design cues to it. But signature love-it-or-hate-it TVR looks. Also, in motorsports news: English team Apex Motorsports announces their intent to design & develop the new Jaguar XKR model for competition in the FIA GT3 Championship. http://www.apexmotorsport.co.uk/ The concept pics look dang good--looks like it could make for a gorgeous GT racer. This would seem to bode well for the series, which already boasts great diversity of makes. Too bad racing series here in the US can't encourage such fields; usually we just get treated to Porsche-parades here, with the odd underdogs running different makes sprinkled in.

LMAO!! Glad they didn't keep Vader's original voice--makes him seem much less intimidating than J. Earl Jones'. Too bad they didn't keep Chewbacca's original voice---that was priceless! --The old man's mad. --You can say that again, Chewie. Shame, really. Some of those scenes really should have made their way back into the film, like the story development with Biggs et. al. Would have preferred that to the bunch of CG pan shots of planet/city backdrops [can we say 'superfluous fluff'?] that we got instead.

I agree. 17" or 18" goes a long way towards improving the looks/perf of a car while remaining within the boundaries of good taste. I'm no fan of "drums and bias ply's" either. I think utilizing 30+ yr old technologies just for the sake of keeping something "factory original" goes too far in the wrong direction as well, considering how much more safety/performance/comfort can be made available to keep cool old cars on the road.

Here's the latest collabo between Chip Foose & Unique Performance: Challenger "Supercar." Looks pretty cool, but I'm just not feeling the wheels/tires--I like the updated-classic look, but it's carried too far, they're too dang big. Makes it look too toy-like, like one of them DUmB City toys or something. Don't these customs ring the register at upwards of $100K? Bit dang pricey for some gussied up old muscle cars.

Hmm, initial impression I get from the general outlines of the shape? Aliens-dropship-meets-Cobra-gunship...oh, and with a fat, dragonfly bulby tail-like thing...

Words. Cannot. Express. How BAD that was. Clicking on the other linked vids at that page just makes it get worse. And worse. "Copyrights? Copyrights?! We don' need no stinking copyrights!!"

Was skimming thru the channels and settled on History Channel while an ep of History's Mysteries was on; the ep is "Japan's Mysterious Pyramids." Apparently covers some recently discovered ruins off the coast of a Japanese island at Yonaguni, that could pre-date "established" civilization by at least 5,000 yrs. One of the experts, when referring to the strong ties/similarities found in ancient Pacific folklore, spoke of how "....the culture this lore refers to could be thought of as a 'proto-civilization' or a 'proto-culture' that predates all other recorded civilizations that we know of..." Just thought it was funny, this guy slipping "protoculture" in there, given the context. LOL, he must have seen Mac and/or Mac 0...

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Well, they say everything is influenced to some degree or other by things that have come before.... Maybe the resemblence is just coincidence? Yeah, that's it. Just coincidence....

Didn't some pics of this car show up on this thread way back when? IIRC, it was subject to quite a bit of conjecture as to just what it was, and what car it was based on. Well, at least there's a name to connect to it now: Anteras XTM. I still say it's just a Chev Corvette underneath the new sheetmetal...

Well, everybody's gotta have a backup plan, something to fall back on. But somebody ought to be a real friend to him and tell 'im: "dude, think of your health, you got to do better." Remember what happened to Big Pun. [RIP]

Oh yeah, the next logical progression will be in space.... Snakes in Space *groan*

That's what I love about Samuel L. Jackson: he's reached nearly iconic status with his booming, instantly recognizable voice in movies/TV, much like James Earl Jones--but he doesn't take himself so seriously that he wouldn't do campy, fun, off-the-wall projects like these. Hmm, I wonder if this series could have been influenced by this? http://www.jamurai.com/ IIRC, this guy's been doing Flash animations of the Little Jamurai character since 2000 or so. Ha ha ha! "Yo mama so fat, she fell in love. And broke it!"

Jeez, for $200+, it ought to have a button on it so you can set it on it's back and you push it, he'll kick his legs and make that "SQUEEEEE!" noise like in the movie!

Not regularly, mind you. One of the perks where I work: have TV's in the office. And the boss likes her Dr. Phil and Oprah in the a'noons. But no worries--I offset this with generous dosages of violent video games and SpikeTV...

First female tourist in space, Iranian-born Anousheh Ansari gave her first TV interview on the Oprah show today. Obviously very educated and articulate, Ansari described vividly the wonders of space travel, including describing experiencing the "smell" of space upon her first spacewalk. According to Ansari, "space smells like a burnt cookie." Her enthusiasm and wonderment gleaned from the experience was readily apparent, as she tried to put into words the various experiences of traveling to, living in, and returning from space, how it was her lifelong-dream fulfilled....well, tried to anyway--IF OPRAH WOULD HAVE SHUT THE F**K UP!! Kept cutting off Ansari's sentences.... So, are there any pictures floating around of the guy who went up dressed as Char Aznable?

Well, the interior's certainly less gaudy than that of the Mustang. They need to lose the carbon fibre[?] panels right behind the doors--sticks out like a sore thumb, and detracts from the overall looks of the car. Like putting a polka-dot bow-tie on with a fine suit.

I dunno, I think it is pretty cool that we can honour and appreciate that generation while they're still here; that generation is in its twilight so to speak--there are fewer and fewer of them left amongst us who actually lived those times. And of course, living in the free-market economy that we do, of course it's no surpise that the movie/game industries have found a way to turn a buck off of that. I don't know about laurels like "the greatest generation," or all that--after all, their racist a$$es weren't perfect. Sadly, the Korean "conflict" is largely ignored, and I suppose Hollywood exorcised its conscience of Vietnam in the 80's; it's still too soon for pop-culture to turn its attention on the Gulf War I guess, since that's still largely an "open" issue politically/socially.

"Realistic" to me would be of course, stunt pilots flying real planes, perhaps captured by a chase plane(s) with cameras--albeit, choreographed maneuvers. The scene that most readily comes to mind for me is that from Tora Tora Tora; i.e. bona-fied P-40's "duking it out" with "Zeroes" [iIRC, modded T-6 Texans] over the Hawaiian coasts. But I realize given the subject matter, this just isn't possible--the planes from this era just don't exist any more. The impression that the planes were being blown to bits in spectacular-Hollywood-esque fashion was a turn off for me from the trailer. So of course the bit where [it looks like] a guy's flying his wood and fabric airplane down through a giant fireball definitely got an inner groan from me. But am I to understand that's not how it actually plays out in the movie? But that just goes to show you: a movie ad can give several completely different impressions of what the film might be like, depending on how the trailer's edited together.

Tee hee! Kewl. --What's a Gozer? --Gozer was very big in Sumeria. --Well, what's he doing in my ice box? --I'm working on that.