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• 	Stein X Leikanger March 18th, 2009 at 9:37 am
  Well, that was painfully disgusting – don’t really think you want to provide a full translation, for fear of provoking an international incident. Here’s the superabbreviated version: Americans are too dim to remember General Motors, and therefore call it GM. GM needed Opel’s know-how, bought it cheap, de-spec’d the cars under the motto of “less is more,” and blackmailed politicians to get them to salvage Opel/GM when this policy ran the brand into the ground. All quite disgustingly illustrated. But the moral here is that GM is a dead brand walking – it will take forever to resuscitate this brand. Who likes GM?
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• 	no_slushbox March 18th, 2009 at 10:02 am
  Jeez, my ancestors have gone a bit too far. GM bought Opel on the cheap because it was nothing. It then poured capital and technology into Opel, helping to mobilize Hitler. Hitler expropriated Opel when the US declared war, and then after the war Opel went back to GM. Impressively this entire skit fails to mention Hitler and the Third Reich (unless I missed something), even though it was deeply intertwined with Opel, but the Germans have gotten good at that. The only German technological innovation in this skit is the hamburger. On the other hand, a country whose largest automaker has had to pay damages for basically stealing the entire design for its original and most famous product, and whose largest automaker goes by the name VW (another goes by BMW), would understand design theft and the inability to remember long names.
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• 	Edward Niedermeyer March 18th, 2009 at 10:21 am
  Mmm… lecker!
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• 	peteinsonj March 18th, 2009 at 10:28 am
  hilarious! ending great — GM drops Opel!
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• 	Paul Niedermeyer March 18th, 2009 at 11:23 am
  Stimmt!
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• 	tom March 18th, 2009 at 11:25 am
  I love “extra 3”, they’re entirely non-pc. This video is a recurring segment in their program that’s fashiond after a popular German kids-program. My favorite is this little clip (with English subs): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiJRcLtsuq4 Not really car related, but it gives you a good idea about what “extra 3” is.
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• 	TireGuy March 18th, 2009 at 11:51 am
  Great! I am so happy to live in Germany, where not politically correct censorship would prohibit such a provocative film. As already Tucholsky said about 80 years ago: what is allowed in Kabarrett? EVERYTHING!
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• 	Landcrusher March 18th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
  Makes you want to respond to everything out of the German government with a question about Hitler and the SS. Not because it’s related, but just to remind them that if you censor the truth, you aren’t worthy of being listened to.
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• 	ktristan March 18th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
  Goodness gracious…
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