BN
Member Since: 18 Mar 2005
Location: Here
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Thought you would like this guys  :
For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on. At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon  ."
In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating the following:
If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day  .
2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car  .
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this  sounds familier.
4. Occasionally, executing a manoeuvre such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine  .
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five percent of the roads .
6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light  .
7. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying "Oh yes".
8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna  LR's remote key.
9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car .
10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off  .
Hey Land Rover (Ford) we have been saying this from day 1 
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Gareth
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Member Since: 07 Dec 2004
Location: Bramhall
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Heard this many times, but it still makes me laugh
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| 22nd Apr 2005 7:40 am |
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DiscoDuck
Member Since: 23 Jan 2005
Location: West Sussex UK
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Not seen it before, good one! D4 HSE
Blue
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| 22nd Apr 2005 7:53 am |
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Pelyma
Member Since: 06 Jan 2005
Location: Patching, Sussex
Posts: 15496
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Is there an echo Disco Duck  DS3 TDV6 HSE - Silver with Alpaca (old one) Gone
DS3 TDV6 HSE- Silver with Alpaca (new one) Gone
D4 HSE Lux - Montalcino Red Gone
Porsche Cayenne V8 Diesel S
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| 22nd Apr 2005 7:55 am |
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Ecosse
Member Since: 07 Jan 2005
Location: Grampian, Scotland
Posts: 889
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I'd be laughing as well, if I wasn't so annoyed about LR's attitude to a £40k+ car 
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| 22nd Apr 2005 8:37 am |
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Martin
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Member Since: 06 Nov 2004
Location: Hook Norton
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Pelyma wrote:Is there an echo Disco Duck
A duck doesn't echo. Fact 
Obviously except on daft hanging forum software
Martin
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| 22nd Apr 2005 8:40 am |
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Pelyma
Member Since: 06 Jan 2005
Location: Patching, Sussex
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Martin, it sounds like you've been listening to Steve Wright's factoids! DS3 TDV6 HSE - Silver with Alpaca (old one) Gone
DS3 TDV6 HSE- Silver with Alpaca (new one) Gone
D4 HSE Lux - Montalcino Red Gone
Porsche Cayenne V8 Diesel S
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| 22nd Apr 2005 9:33 am |
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