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Tue 2 Jun, 2009 12:20 pm
GUANGZHOU, China " General Motors has reached a preliminary agreement for the sale of its Hummer brand of large sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks to a machinery company in western China with ambitions to become a carmaker, a person with knowledge of the Chinese government approval process said Tuesday.
Thanx for providing a much-needed morning laugh, dys. Have a doctor's appointment in two hours and this titbit set me up nicely.
@dyslexia,
China could be the new home of this century's SUV boondoggle. Meanwhile the US can go into producing electric vehicles and in 50 years we can loan them back all their money when their economy collapses under the weight of the SUV's. Diabolical.
@Butrflynet,
Are you not familar with the term.
@Butrflynet,
As in "I'd rather push a Harley than ride a rice burner".
95% of the Harleys ever built are still on the road today, by the way.
The other 5% got their riders home safely.
@roger,
roger wrote:
As in "I'd rather push a Harley than ride a rice burner".
95% of the Harleys ever built are still on the road today, by the way.
The other 5% got their riders home safely.
the only motorpsycho that has options for snow-plows and hay-balers.
@maporsche,
No, I'm not. That's why I asked.
@Butrflynet,
usually refers to Japanese motorcycles,i.e. Kawasaki and Yamaha as opposed to American cycles-Harley and Indian
@Butrflynet,
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rice%20burner
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1. Originally coined by oldschool bikers in the early 80's, a derogatory and borderline rascist term used to describe Japanese and other import motorcycles which were not Harley Davidsons or made in the USA.
2. Adapted from it's original meaning in the mid 90's, a term used to describe an R-Type vehicle based on the phrase "riced up", which denotes a heavily modified car that is usually an import, where the cost of the actual modifications usually exceed the vehicles bluebook value.
Different meanings for different people. Me, being in my late 20's and a child of the 90's, feel more partial to definition #2.
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