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  1. 26th July 2009, 08:37 PM #16
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    All the new models look like shoes to me,
    except holden and ford, they look like
    umm hamburgers
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  3. 26th July 2009, 09:03 PM #17
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    Ford and Holden are classified as Large cars and the others are not
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    Quote Originally Posted by ColW View Post
    All the new models look like shoes to me,
    Yes, me too!.

    Another tip. It's all about the brand.
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    Dear Pug,

    That would make the answer "Ford" & "Hyundai" - the only two out of the bunch that have oval emblems, as opposed to straight-out circular ones...

    Now, where's my lollies?...

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    Ford and Toyota are named after the founders of the companies. (Toyoda simplified to Toyota).

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    Dear Pug!

    Noooo!...

    The odd ones out are actually Holden and Volkswagon - the only brands to have the Circles, compared to the rest, that are all actually Ovals...

    Can I still please have at least one lolly...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Batpig View Post
    Dear Pug!

    Noooo!...

    The odd ones out are actually Holden and Volkswagon - the only brands to have the Circles, compared to the rest, that are all actually Ovals...

    Can I still please have at least one lolly...

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    You've got it Batpig. It was just something I noticed as I was driving around, how many cars have oval badges.

    Well done, give yourself TWO lollies!
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    I thought it was Toyota and Hyundai, because they're the only one with a y in the name.
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    Dear Pug,
    Quote Originally Posted by pugwash View Post
    You've got it Batpig. It was just something I noticed as I was driving around, how many cars have oval badges.

    Well done, give yourself TWO lollies!
    In all honesty, I owe at least one of my lollies to a snippet I read in "Wheels" magazine many years ago - around the time that Toyota was just setting up "Lexus". As a consequence of what they (being Toyota) had learned about the whole "Brand and Image" thing with cars in the runup to starting Lexus, they not only gave Lexus a round badge to mimic the various established Euro brand's, but they also changed the mainstream Toyota emblem itself from being just a "T" style thing, to becoming an enclosed oval symbol. Playing with our minds - I reckon.... (It's a bit like falling in love with a beautiful Japanese woman, only to find out later that she's had that "eyelid" operation that they all get, so that her appearance unfairly "ticks" enough of the little Anglo-Saxon checkboxes in the "romantic" quadrant of your subconscious mind...)

    Dear Chris,
    Quote Originally Posted by chrisb691 View Post
    I thought it was Toyota and Hyundai, because they're the only one with a y in the name.
    Can't argue with that! I hereby mentally award you the other of the two lollies!..

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