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California AG Says He'll Sue Diebold
moby11 points to this Reuters story carried by Yahooo!; it begins "California Attorney General Bill Lockyer said on Tuesday he would sue electronic voting machine maker Diebold Inc. on charges it defrauded the state with false claims about its products."
Offtopic but.....
Actually, that's the funny part about police cars. They are very careful about which cars are allowed to do pursuit. It's the Crown Vic and one other.
The problem is that, until very recently, a police car *must* be rear wheel drive. To change that requires a lot of retraining of police officers because all of the RWD stunts don't work anymore.
And, of course, all of the newer cars are front wheel drive, so it's awfully hard in general to convince a car company to make a hotrod RWD sedan *just* for the police market.
So it is an effective lawsuit deterrent.
Gentoo Sucks
In Australia we have a simple solution.
Our flagship cars are still RWD. The Ford Falcon and Holden Commodore are both RWD and are both Australia's biggest selling large sedans.
They come with engines ranging from 219 (3.6L) V6s to 357 V8s. There was a Holden HSV 427 coming to market but it was dropped.