Global Warming

[McGiver]

looks like a peace mobile to me.

[Litigious]

looks like a peace mobile to me.

Here is a much better car, Volvo 850, from the mid 90s.  



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[McGiver]

i like this puppy:

[Litigious]

That's a really hot one. 

[McGiver]

That's a really hot one. 

if you had nothing else going for you, that car would help you pull girls.

[DirtDawg]

Taunus is a pretty average sedan "family" car, which was very popular in Europe 20-30 years ago. Here is one that looks like Odeon's might have looked like.

I know what a Cortina is and apparently they are quite similar.
An old boss of mine had a Cortina enginge in a little racer, not much bigger than a kid's Go-Kart. I used to tease him "Some of you guys would race ANYTHING!"

[Litigious]

That's a really hot one. 

if you had nothing else going for you, that car would help you pull girls.

I have actually picked up girls in my old Volvo 142, which really isn't a pussy magnet, but of course that sort of a car would help a lot. 

[Litigious]

Taunus is a pretty average sedan "family" car, which was very popular in Europe 20-30 years ago. Here is one that looks like Odeon's might have looked like.

I know what a Cortina is and apparently they are quite similar.
An old boss of mine had a Cortina enginge in a little racer, not much bigger than a kid's Go-Kart. I used to tease him "Some of you guys would race ANYTHING!"

In fact, the car manufacturers sell about the same cars worldwide and just change the names, so that they'll appeal to the public of the country they're selling it in. Taunus is the name of a mountain range in northern Germany, so I guess Cortina was a more appropriate name in the US.

[DirtDawg]

Not really, but I'm a little more familiar with Brit versions. We had the Ford Falcon, usually a six cylinder engine, as one of the smallest American cars in the sixties and they were a little bigger than a Cortina. We could have benefitted from a four cylinder Cortina/Taunus type car, I believe, but they were not marketed here.

[Litigious]

We had different types of Volvo 140s, when I was a child. They have 4 cylinder, 2 litre engines and were the most popular car in the 70s here. More than every fourth Swede owned one. Not very fancy but pretty reliable and cheap in mileage.



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[duncvis]

Taunus is a pretty average sedan "family" car, which was very popular in Europe 20-30 years ago. Here is one that looks like Odeon's might have looked like.

I know what a Cortina is and apparently they are quite similar.
An old boss of mine had a Cortina enginge in a little racer, not much bigger than a kid's Go-Kart. I used to tease him "Some of you guys would race ANYTHING!"

Yeah, that was a Cortina in the UK too.

[Leto729]

I have been in five car accidents. Two times I have been rear ended in parkinking lots. I have rear end once. Two times I have had accidents caused by ice. An I am still here.

[Callaway]

I was a passenger in another accident where a car rear-ended the car I was in, but I did not count that one because I was just a child in the back seat and not the driver. 

I did nearly have an accident one time when I tried to avoid hitting a cat that darted across the road in front of me.  I fish-tailed the car, but all the oncoming cars pulled over to the side of the road until my car stopped moving.  I didn't hit the cat, but I was very lucky not to have had a serious accident, because I had absolutely no control of the car until it stopped moving.  When I told my mother about what had happened, she said, "Next time, hit the cat."

[Leto729]

Twice with My Mother was driving too.

[odeon]

This one's a lot like the one I had...