Toyota plant workers in England wish their boys luck in the World Cup
You can almost see it from Germany! Workers in Toyota's Burnaston plant in Derbyshire, England, put together this little flag to wish the English team luck in the World Cup. It evidently took 12 hours and 40 hardworking soccer fans to get 400 Yarises into position. The 130' x 260' flag can reportedly be seen from 1,000 feet up and for miles around, wishing the boys over on the pitch in Germany best of luck.
England, who hasn't won the Cup since 1966, is leading Group B with 3 points.
Thanks to Mario for the tip.
[Source: AutoMotoPortal]
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a 9:34PM (6/13/2006)
i wonder if it can be seen from google map
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Lithous 9:52PM (6/13/2006)
BMW should have ORDERED the Mini Cooper factory to create the German flag.
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tekdemon 10:19PM (6/13/2006)
How did it take them 12 hours to drive 10 cars each?
40 workers, 400 cars=10 cars a worker...umm...seriously lol
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j-dawg 1:26AM (6/14/2006)
12 hours * 60min/hr = 720min /400 cars = 1.8mins/car
Doesn't seem unreasonable that they spent one minute and forty-eight seconds per car. Recall that these cars are all parked extremely close to each other and that they're facing away from the wall--at that close range, they'd have to be backed into place. Recall also that the cars aren't parked in this order in the first place-they had to get all the white ones and red ones, probably from already-parked stocks.
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Scott 3:21AM (6/14/2006)
Sorry for being off topic to this site, but hopefully some of the British readers can answer something I've been wondering: Why is Britain not using the Union Jack to represent them for the World Cup? Did Scotland, Britain, and Northern Ireland compete as separate countries in the qualifying stages?
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Sheniferous 4:02AM (6/14/2006)
The Union Jack represents the United Kingdom as a whole. And yes to the 2nd part... but Scotland, N. Ireland, and Wales didn't qualify.
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Nicely 5:51AM (6/14/2006)
Where I can get some photos of ferrari ? :)
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MacroEQ 6:49AM (6/14/2006)
"5. Sorry for being off topic to this site, but hopefully some of the British readers can answer something I've been wondering: Why is Britain not using the Union Jack to represent them for the World Cup?"
Umm, maybe because Britain or the UK does not have a World Cup team? The UK's constituent nations represent themselves in the World Cup (and always have done).
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Edsel 9:35AM (6/14/2006)
How long to undo this marvelous creation by 40 drunken post-game soccer fans?
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Edsel 9:35AM (6/14/2006)
How long to undo this marvelous creation by 40 drunken post-game soccer fans?
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Devs1980 12:33PM (6/14/2006)
No. 5: It didn't say "Britain", it said England. England is merely the largest constituent nation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. England, Scotland and Wales make up Great Britain, and along with Northern Ireland, they make up the United Kingdom. All 4 countries are eligible to enter their own teams into the Football World Cup, but only England qualified. All other home nations (as we call them) have a friendly hostility towards the English over football!
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Broose 12:40PM (6/14/2006)
I would like to test drive the red one in the middle
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TC 1:24PM (6/14/2006)
"Sorry for being off topic to this site, but hopefully some of the British readers can answer something I've been wondering: Why is Britain not using the Union Jack to represent them for the World Cup? Did Scotland, Britain, and Northern Ireland compete as separate countries in the qualifying stages?"
This reminds me of the Budweiser commercials they're running here in the UK for the world cup!
"Why have Manchester City AND Man United? Why not just have Team Manchester!" Props to Bud for ads!
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Scott 11:38PM (6/14/2006)
Thanks for the answers guys. And I pride myself on my knowledge of geography...
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