Comments on: Coming Attractions: A Homicidal Hybrid

By: davejay

davejay — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:05:23 +0000

Well, remember: hybrids running in battery mode make so little noise that I’ve read hysterical articles about needing to add a noisemaker so pedestrians hear ‘em coming — not a big leap to the idea of one sneaking up on you.

Presumably to say “boo”.

By: Bill Wade

Bill Wade — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:37:54 +0000

Do you suppose it’s Bob Lutz’s idea of product placement for the Volt?

By: Gesundheit

Gesundheit — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:37:08 +0000

Actually, let’s see…at today’s exchange rate that might be around $970k AND shot in Regina. You smell Oscar?

Yeah I can see it. And apparently the thing takes place pretty much entirely in a parking garage so you’re saying Regina parkades look different than Chicago parkades?

It’s gotta be a Prius. P*ssed-off Prius gets revenge on the mechanic after she gives it the finger when she realizes she won’t get a tax credit after all for purchasing green depending where she lives. Then the Prius overcharges its battery by spinning its tires (good and LOUD in that parking garage) and then releases the brake, chases her around for an hour and a half—also further keeping the battery going into supercharge mode ’cause she left her torque wrench under the hood and it is shorting out—and then rams her against a couple cars (a Fury would be nice, and an old T.A., maybe a Pinto?) and WHAAAMM BLAMMMM!!!! Big-butt explosion from the unsafe mixture of electrical and gasoline hybrid engine.

Sound good?

Whaddya say Roeper and Ebert? How about the folks at ain’t it cool?

Line up now, fans! Could be a record-breaking lineup like before SW Ep I.

By: Landcrusher

Landcrusher — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:09:06 +0000

Get’im, Lesley!

By: TomAnderson

TomAnderson — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:38:52 +0000

I wonder if the (human) star winds up getting rescued by a clean diesel in the end…that would be cool.

By: Lesley Wimbush

Lesley Wimbush — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:12:42 +0000

Dude, put down the Old Milwaukee, and step into the 2000s.
If you’re real nice, I might even let you hand me my torque wrench.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:32:29 +0000

Female mechanic? Obviously, science fiction.

By: Buick61

Buick61 — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:57:10 +0000

Christine was a mixed blessing for Mopar fans. The upside is that it brought attention to one of the best looking, but mostly over-looked, cars of the 1950s. I’m sure many were saved from the crusher after the car built up a fanbase following this movie.

The downside is for those that already were fans of these cars. Prices have gone through the roof for cars AND parts. And the most obvious downside was that a large number of 1957 and 1958 Plymouths were destroyed in the making of the film.

I don’t think anyone would shed a tear over the destruction of any of the new hybrids.

By: BuckD

BuckD — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:23:58 +0000

A homicidal Prius? That’s like making Herbie the Lovebug a serial rapist.

By: 6G74

6G74 — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:12:16 +0000

starlightmica :
March 31st, 2008 at 9:01 am

@6G74 : does the Maliura hybrid battery pack contain adequate volt-age to inflict the obligatory damage of this B-movie?

I wonder… It apparently doesn’t contain enough voltage to allow a better improvement in fuel economy than a $.50 Tornado air intake bauble, so I doubt it could do much of anything else.

By: starlightmica (Richard Chen)

starlightmica (Richard Chen) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:01:25 +0000

@6G74 : does the Maliura hybrid battery pack contain adequate volt-age to inflict the obligatory damage of this B-movie?

By: Blunozer

Blunozer — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:00:49 +0000

$10 million budget and filmed in Regina?

I smell Oscar!

By: Donal Fagan

Donal Fagan — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:58:40 +0000

Priustine?

By: 6G74

6G74 — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:57:45 +0000

One hopes they realize that Regina, Saskatchewan, looks nothing like Chicago, IL.

I'm pretty sure it'll be a terrible Malibu/Aura Hybrid. The mechanic will go insane because of the 1 mpg fuel "saving" over the regular gas version and commit suicide.

By: guyincognito

guyincognito — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:55:39 +0000

I think the Prius will turn people into zombies who can only recite what Al Gore tells them, slowly boring our heroin to death.

By: Cammy Corrigan

Cammy Corrigan — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:39:31 +0000

The car is going to go to houses with SUV’s and Hummers on the drive and tell them to “Stop killing the planet” whilst leaving with a smug sense of satisfaction…..

Or the car could be an GM SUV with its “two-mode” hybrid system. That way if the car REALLY doesn’t like the person, it’ll turn to 4WD and squash them or if it’s someone who didn’t do something as bad it’ll switch to 2WD and just break their legs…..