The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2
General Category => Totally Off-Topic Discussions, Rants, Tire & Oil Threads, Etc. => Topic started by: marcmax on February 16, 2011, 01:53:09 PM
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I know this isn't exactly airhead related but it was too good not to share.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/nd5WGLWNllA?rel=0
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Impressive but i still dont get the Pheaton as a concept its still a VW with a Merc price tag.
Lou
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How many people can afford (I mean afford...) a $50,000 car in today's economy? Crazyness, if you ask me. Building these big luxury vehicles is just as silly as war, IMO. A genuine waste of resources that could be put to much better use.
http://carphotos.tk/tag/volkswagen-phaeton-2011-colors/
I feel like I am being too materialistic to love my 2002 Civic that I bought last Oct. for $9500. (Current loan balance - $4700! ;D )
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I also wonder why vehicles now have to come with entertainment systems for the passengers.
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I also wonder why vehicles now have to come with entertainment systems for the passengers.
Nearly every mini-van/SUV in 'merica has a drop-down screen for watching movies/playing video games for the back seat. (And some in the front! :o )
Whatever happened to counting out-of-state license plates? Smacking your sibling in the arm every time you saw a VW ('slug-bug!"), or a car with one headlight burned out? (we kids called them "Pedidles", my Dad called them "Pop-eyes".)
~sigh~
We are old, I am afraid.
On one cross-country trip, my sister had one of her son-in-laws helping her drive. She was watching a movie in the passenger seat on her laptop.
Then she saw "The dummy" (I'm trying to be nice, here) looking at the screen more than the road!
She quickly closed the computer...
Yes, he has reproduced - twice. I think both of his children should be neutered.
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I feel like I am being too materialistic to love my 2002 Civic that I bought last Oct. for $9500. (Current loan balance - $4700! ;D )
Rest assured your Honda will give you years of service long after its payed for, my 2002 Acccord still drives like the day i collected it new from the showroom.
As someone who was stupid enough to buy a new Merc before i saw sense and found Honda i can say hind sight is a wonderfull thing.
Lou
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What happens if the model does't 'sell', then what? they would have to rejig the whole joint.
What a massive waste of money. I also fell sorry for the workers, having 'tourist' watching, pointing, taking pics while you are going about your daily tasks.
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. I also fell sorry for the workers, having 'tourist' watching, pointing, taking pics while you are going about your daily tasks.
Funny thing is after a short while you become oblivious to what is going on outside, we do when we are doing living History
Lou
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Sorry to everyone who has posted. I was not trying to start a commentary on the vehicle being produced but on how they are producing it. I think that the technology behind the production of these vehicles is just phenomenal. Whether they are right for the planet or the current economy is irrelevant. It is the technology and the intellect that created it that amazes me. It is the same mind-set that created our beloved R65's that is evident.
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I've worked 60 hours this week behind a firewall that doesn't allow the viewing of YouTube or the like.
All I could do was Google the name of the car after Lou mentioned it.
IMO, the technology should be applied toward keeping this planet habitable. Unfortunately, that has also meant the demise of things like cadmium plating.
As much as I enjoy my motorcycle, I have to think we were closer to Eden before we began digging metal from the ground.
Sorry to bum your stone.
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Thanks for sharing, marcmax! I think it's fascinating.
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I also wonder why vehicles now have to come with entertainment systems for the passengers.
Points being scored for both sides...
However, Anyone besides me recently taken a long rode trip with two grandchildren? A three-year old girl and a seven-year old boy? "Are we there yet? Are we there yet? How much longer? I'm bored. Are we there yet? Are we there yet?"
Portable and/or OEM DVD players -one for each child prevents arguments- are this traveling grandparent's godsend. Plus, the optional headsets will totally eliminate backseat trauma n' drama.
A truthful experience; we arrived home and grandson said, "Keep driving, Grandpa. The movie's not over yet." ;D
Monte
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I watched the video and was amazed at the brilliance of the technology, that alone made it well worth posting - IMO.
The comments which followed got me into much deeper waters, and made me think, which isn't altogether a bad thing ... (usually).
Such a creative species, with such destructive tendencies -- what on earth are we thinking ?
Are we even thinking in any meaningful way at all ...?
It seems to me, that technology is merely an expression of our abilities - and awesome as our abilities are, we fail to examine, and learn from our activities.
Applied properly to geothermal energy, food production, health care and education, technology could support us all in lifestyles which could be in perfect harmony with our home planet.
As things are, we see the opposite results all around us, yet fail to change our course.
I'm not being political, in the usual sense, here; blaming others simply doesn't seem to work, and heaven knows, I/we, have done that long enough to see the inherent foolishness of projecting the blame.
Rather than trying to change others, I have to change myself -- and accept my own share of the blame ... that's the only thing I can, and should, attempt to control.
What makes me really mind-numbingly sad, is that we have created a generation of children who are bored by the world, and need the stimulation of television, when they are surrounded by incredible beauty which they do not see.
For me, this is a bitterly depressing indictment of our folly.
We have, by neglect and lack of any reasonable human philosophy, robbed our children of the sense of wonder which illuminated my early life, and is the most precious vestigial element of my later years.
Painful as they are, I need to be reminded of these things, as the days swirl past.
Thank you.
Rotifer.