Nissan Targets Gay Consumers with Fruity New Car

[Samurai_Jerk]

Nissan delivers first Leaf in San Francisco

Nissan's new Leaf electric car has been delivered to its first customer, in San Francisco, days ahead of its official launch in Japan.

In what Nissan described as "the first delivery of an affordable, mass-market, all-electric car since the first days of the automotive era," car keys were handed over to entrepreneur Olivier Chalouhi at the weekend.

"It's great on the highway," Chalouhi told the local Mercury News, adding: "When you accelerate, it sounds like you have a jet engine or a turbine under the hood... You have to hear it -- it's very futuristic." ...

[BigInJapan]

[Samurai_Jerk]

Stereotype much?

Yes, I do.

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[Greji]

Stereotype much?

Well, looking at the plug for the pump, one of them must be a 3-holer.....

[Samurai_Jerk]

Chalouhi

By the way, ever hear the expression gay as an Arab.

[Coligny]

By the way, ever hear the expression gay as an Arab.

Nope... just thief as an arab... It's the greeks that are famous for their homosexuality because of their Island of Pedos and Lesbos...

Remember, with arabs, watch for your wallet, with greeks, watch for yer bunghole...

For the blacks I don't remember, but then again, long time I didun't have the chance to go to a Klan meeting...


Since he and I are... sort of at the opposite side of the political spectrum...

[davai-davai IV]

[IparryU]

[Greji]

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Is there a better way to clean that greasy residue off of them?

Considering how this thread has taken such a politically correct stance, allow me to continue in the same vein in answering this question....Yes, indeed there is: Get a woman to wash them. (Preferably a single-mother lesbian with an adopted baby of a different, non-white racial origin and who is permanently dressed in safety clothes and home-schooled).

[Catoneinutica]

[Coligny]

[Catoneinutica]

... And why not having some in love hotels too ?

So you can charge while you, uh, discharge. We're fine with our Honda for the next year or two, but I'd like our next car to be an all-electric one - buying even the lux-est gas-powered vehicle now seems like buying a record turntable in, say, 1982 (unless you're a vinyl/gas fetishist). Cars are soon going to be just like iPods: no user-serviceable parts inside.

[AssKissinger]

It's a good thing there's lots of coal to convert to electricity. Otherwise these little things couldn't fuck up the environment while making people feel good about themselves for being assholes!

[Catoneinutica]

It's a good thing there's lots of coal to convert to electricity. Otherwise these little things couldn't fuck up the environment while making people feel good about themselves for being assholes!

No coal needed: the grid will be juiced by the power of your love, AK.

[AssKissinger]

No coal needed: the grid will be juiced by the power of your love, AK.

They'll still have to dig it out of AO's asshole. And that takes time and energy just like everything else.

[Coligny]

It's a good thing there's lots of coal to convert to electricity. Otherwise these little things couldn't fuck up the environment while making people feel good about themselves for being assholes!

I'm a nukularized French... I don't know what is that coal you'ze talking aboot...

And also (insert the 'mass producing energy as electricity pollute less than every car powering himself through gasoline production or at least the pollution is not done in everystreet under your noze' argument here)

[Samurai_Jerk]

It's a good thing there's lots of coal to convert to electricity. Otherwise these little things couldn't fuck up the environment while making people feel good about themselves for being assholes!

Thank you. Electric cars are like corn bio-diesel and recycling programs. A way to make psuedo-hippies feel good about themselves while allowing business to keep raping the environment.

[Taro Toporific]

[Greji]

Whether you "actually can buy" a plug-ins car is questionable.

They have in the same good spirit of saving the earth, built a hydrogen filling station on Inogashira dori, by Kanpachi. There was a huge grand opening with lots of people of varing RPMs in the audience. All with the required black suits and few in the J-morning.

Since, I have yet to see a vehicle in the place and it is closed most of the time. I assume you have to call some number to make an appointment to "fill-up."

I wonder if I can dump my mercury light bulbs that I was required to buy into their garbage?

[Mike Oxlong]

Devil's advocate here:

I'm wondering how much petroleum goes into the plastics & vinyls in these eco-cars, the tires, the asphalt for the roads (I know they don't maintain and repair/replace roads as much as we'd like, but still)...

[Coligny]

:devil2: Devil's advocate here:

I'm wondering how much petroleum goes into the plastics & vinyls in these eco-cars, the tires, the asphalt for the roads (I know they don't maintain and repair/replace roads as much as we'd like, but still)...

Nissan Renault cars are usually recyclable 95%. Here the paper for latest model of the eco2 Renault Lineup for the quantity of recycled plastic used.
Unfortunately it depend more from the related subcontractors than from Renault itself.

http://www.renault.com/en/CAPECO2/signe-renault-eco2/Pages/Signe-Renault-eco2.aspx

[Catoneinutica]

Assessing the environmental impact of electric vs gas-powered cars is like measuring the impact of human activity on the climate: essentially impossible because you can't control for all the infinite number of disparate factors. I'd just like our next car to be an all-electric one. If we have to wait until 2012 for one that will get us to, say, Karuizawa and back on a single charge, no problem; we're not in a hurry. I do think internal combustion engines will become a legacy technology in the next couple of decades - as will every iteration of battery; upgrades won't require a completely new vehicle, with any luck.

[Coligny]

[quote="Catoneinutica"] as will every iteration of battery]

You don't know anything aboot big bucks marketing do you ?

[Takechanpoo]

Nissan Leaf to win European Car of the Year 2011
http://www.caroftheyear.org/winner/Nissan/Leaf/2011_52/coty

[AssKissinger]

Nissan Leaf to win European Car of the Year 2011
http://www.caroftheyear.org/winner/Nissan/Leaf/2011_52/coty

omg

are you actually robpongi ?

[Catoneinutica]

omg

are you actually robpongi ?

That's one seriously interesting theory. Whatever became of The Ponger?

Anyway, back to Coligny's reply, yes, Jean-Marie, I'm well aware that the Japanese have refined the concept of planned obsolescence to the point where products have life cycles shorter than the time it takes to contract HPV from a pump you meet at Dubliners. Still, I can't see people willing to throw away a car every couple of years just for a new and better battery. Even Steve Jobs lets you replace the batteries on your Apple crapola, though he charges you big bucks for it. So unless some new technology emerges that allows cars to be pulped and repulped out of pet bottles, I don't think it's likely that batteries will be non-upgradeable. But who knows.

[IparryU]

omg

are you actually robpongi ?

how are you guessing that? not seeing the connection

[AssKissinger]

how are you guessing that? not seeing the connection

He always used this icon

[Coligny]

That's one seriously interesting theory. Whatever became of The Ponger?

Anyway, back to Coligny's reply, yes, Jean-Marie, I'm well aware that the Japanese have refined the concept of planned obsolescence to the point where products have life cycles shorter than the time it takes to contract HPV from a pump you meet at Dubliners.

Dude... like totally avoid dat' name...
Either you'ze gunna get punched... or have the proof you're facing a psycho...