... the car towing the A/C, not that it has a non-standard or non-existant engine layout. This should explain it. This 747-200 , G-DBXJ or N88892, used to be British Airways. It's retired now, but it was used in Casino Royale. The outer engines were replaced with outer fuel tanks, and the inner engines were replaced with mock ups. It's about 38,000 pounds less than a 747 should be. ...

...: I watched an ad the other night. It was for a VW Taureg. It was supposedly towing a B747 at some airport. However, what intrigued me was that the B747 was being portrayed as having twin engine pods similar in style or layout to the B52 where two engines were next to each on on one pylon. Still only have 4 engines. Here's the full story. http://...

Marts wrote: I watched an ad the other night. It was for a VW Taureg. It was supposedly towing a B747 at some airport. However, what intrigued me was that the B747 was being portrayed as having twin engine pods similar in style or layout to the B52 where two engines were next to each on on one pylon. Still only have 4 engines. Here's...

...watched an ad the other night. It was for a VW Taureg. It was supposedly towing a B747 at some airport. However, what intrigued...was that the B747 was being portrayed as having twin engine pods ... or layout to the B52 where two engines were next to each... pylon. Still only have 4 engines. Now, was this some graphic ... non-standard or non-existant engine layout. -- "The secret to creativity ...

GB <gb0506@kickindanuts.threefiddy.com> wrote: Rob <mesa@mine.com> wrote: AA wrote: GB wrote: In any case, they turfed everything that wasn't bolted down (the spare tyre, jack, tools, even Hammond) out for the 'fast' lap! and she had a vehicle ahead to help provide a slipstream effect - IIRC. AA Gee that would have upset the aerodynamics of the van, just ...

AA wrote: GB wrote: Rob <mesa@mine.com> wrote in news:46b7cbb6$1_6@news.peopletelecom.com.au: Hammond would be the lightest of the three, was this a weight saving exercise :) My impression was that he was the one who got the biggest kick out of putting shit on Clarkson! (Probably because Clarkson really lays it on him!) Think "I HAVE NOT had my ...

GB wrote: Rob <mesa@mine.com> wrote in news:46b7cbb6$1_6@news.peopletelecom.com.au: Hammond would be the lightest of the three, was this a weight saving exercise :) My impression was that he was the one who got the biggest kick out of putting shit on Clarkson! (Probably because Clarkson really lays it on him!) Think "I HAVE NOT had my teeth whitened"! In any ...

Ned <nednot@aioe.org> wrote: GB wrote: Bernd Felsche wrote: 10 minutes around the 'ring is no embarrassment. Clarkson was beside himself with glee when he managed to punt a diesel Jaguar around there in 9:59. Schmidtz laughed in his face and said "I tell you what, I could do *that* time in a *van*". And so it began. As it turned out, she got the diesel ...

GB wrote: Bernd Felsche <bernie@innovative.iinet.net.au> wrote in news:ni0lo4x8is.ln2 @innovative.iinet.net.au: > 10 minutes around the 'ring is no embarrassment. Clarkson was beside himself with glee when he managed to punt a diesel Jaguar around there in 9:59. Schmidtz laughed in his face and said "I tell you what, I could do *that* time in a *van*". And ...

GB <gb0506@kickindanuts.threefiddy.com> wrote: Mailman@castlemaine.net.au wrote: On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:27:15 +1000, David Bromage <dbromage@omni.com.NOSPAMTHANKYOU.au> wrote: GB wrote: sub-ten-minute laps of the Nurburgring in a BMW M5, and the day she took a Ford Transit Van around the 'ring in 10 minutes 10 seconds just to embarass Clarkson was *priceless*!...