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Build-to-Order Cars?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the side-order-of-ram-and-a-free-printer dept.

MadMonk writes "Baseline has an article about a new car company that wants to be 'the Dell of the auto industry.' Build-To-Order, Inc. could turn the auto industry on its ear. At worst, BTO will be an interesting technology petri dish. I want a customized car to match my customized computer."

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  1. Sweet! Imagine the case mods! by Limburgher · · Score: 4, Funny
    Transparent windows, cool lights, and you can even open the front of the case while it's runni. . .oh, wait, that's what we have now.

    Insert random quotation about the hood being helding shut.

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    You are not the customer.

  2. Dual Dude Jokes? by Aliencow · · Score: 4, Funny

    The title of the article is "Dude, you're gettin' a car". To which I reply : "Dude, where's my Dell??"

    1. Re:Dual Dude Jokes? by norwoodites · · Score: 2, Funny

      Isn't it "Dude where is my car?"

  3. BTO!! by JebusIsLord · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ah BTO, Canada's answer to ELO! Their greatest hit was TCB. /simpsons

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    Jeremy
  4. As an Apple user... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    As an Apple user, I will continue to buy BMWs.

  5. More importantly...... by macshune · · Score: 3, Funny

    When am I gonna be able to purchase a Canyonero?

    Can you name the truck with four wheel drive, smells like a steak, and seats thirty five?
    Canyonero! Canyonero!
    Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down, it's the country-fried truck endorsed by a clown
    Canyonero! Canyonero!
    Hey, hey!
    Twelve yards long, two lanes wide, sixty five tons of American pride!
    Canyonero! Canyonero!
    Top of the line in utility sports, unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!
    Canyonero! Canyonero!
    She blinds everybody with her super high beams, she's a squirrel-squashin', deer-smackin' drivin' machine
    Canyonero! Canyonero! Canyonero!

    Whoa, Canyonero! Whoa!

  6. Cars today put me to sleep by superpulpsicle · · Score: 2, Funny

    Tired of looking at the same 8000 identical models of silver nissan ultimas, followed by red ford taurus.

    No wonder truck drivers fall asleep. It's like counting sheeps.

  7. Re:Mini already does this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Of the hundreds of cars in the plant at the time NONE of them were exactly the same as mine and probably not as each other.

    My understanding is that no two MG's were the same either, only it wasn't on purpose.