VIDEO: Onion interviews automaker execs, flying cars are out
Try as they might, The Onion got the typical stonewall response from GM, Ford, and Toyota when pressing the automakers about their flying car programs. All these companies do is deny, deny, deny. Even when the Onion called them out, pointing to their secret labs where engineers fly around gleefully like Charlie Bucket and his grandfather all hopped up on hotrod soda, flat denial was the order of the day. We can expect these programs to be pushed further underground, now that their cover was nearly blown by The Onion, so we'll have to deal with more talk of hybrids and wheel motors instead of airspeed and tailrotors. Please note: The Onion is pure satire. Usually screamingly hilarious. Satire doesn't tend to work unless the presentation is dry. They really aren't serious.
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ford_for_road 11:37AM (11/08/2007)
guys .........??
I am not familiar with this show(out of US)
Is it comedy show or not???
because the topic (flying cars)..it just stupid to talk about it
and the way he asking them about it.
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Kaptain75329 11:43AM (11/08/2007)
The Onion is satire in the USA - like MAD Magazine.
You can relax now.
graviton 11:47AM (11/08/2007)
yes, go to www.theonion.com its the best satirical website out there.
rem83 11:48AM (11/08/2007)
The Onion is a parody newspaper which has apparently expanded into video 'news' as well. I guess most comedy acts would seem stupid if you took everything they said literally and without any sense of humor.
Regarding the piece itself, I thought the "the jury is still out on flying cars" line was particularly good, especially after hearing politicians say the same thing so many times about global warming.
Kaptain75329 11:41AM (11/08/2007)
"I do not have a secret lab."
Instant classic.
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Bozo 4:46PM (11/08/2007)
So according to that picture, GM is still asleep? When will they wake up?
OK, I know many of you are going to say GM is dead.
Toyota looks very uncomfortable as if something has been shoved up his ass... recall notice could it be?
Ford running its mouth as always... Blah blah blah...
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Stephen 3:56PM (11/08/2007)
I particularly loved them showing scenes from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and The Jetsons, and the GM guy saying "Um, you do realize these are movies, right?"
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John B 5:02PM (11/08/2007)
These guys are good. Also, check out "Ninja Parade Slips Through Town Unnoticed Once Again"
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500 11:04PM (11/08/2007)
Very Funny. Could've been even funnier if they had spliced together interviews with real auto execs (Lutz, Wagoner, Mulally, etc.) to make it appear that they were responding to questions about flying cars.
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