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FRANCE EXPORTS FLAMES

You can take the cars out of France, but can’t take France out of the cars:

Hundreds of Iranian-made cars have suddenly caught fire on Iran’s roads over the past months, with police pointing to the Peugeot 405 as the main culprit.

Since the beginning of the Iranian year in March, there have been 125 incidents of cars catching fire without warning and then killing or injuring the occupants, traffic police chief Mohammad Rooyanian said Monday.

“Around 300 people have been killed or wounded and 40 percent of the fatalities were attributed to the Peugeot 405,” he told the hardline Kayhan newspaper …

The Peugeot 405 and other well-known models from the French carmaker have been manufactured under licence since 1990 by Iran Khodro, Iran’s largest car manufacturer.

The 405 and other French vehicles at least require some kind of encouragement before achieving flamehood in their native land; Iranian-built examples are self-igniters. And these guys want a nuclear plant?

Posted by Tim B. on 01/01/2007 at 11:32 PM
  1. More proof of Franco-Islamic Spontaneous Combustion. Disprove that, Amazing Randi!

    Posted by andycanuck on 2007 01 01 at 11:40 PM • permalink

  2. You know, FISC.

    Posted by andycanuck on 2007 01 01 at 11:41 PM • permalink

  3. The French must be importing their cars from Iran.  I blame globalisation.

    Posted by EvilK on 2007 01 01 at 11:43 PM • permalink

  4. Does Aminaderj—Amadinerhead—Imajekyllhyde—whatever—have one of these? *crosses fingers.*

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 01 01 at 11:50 PM • permalink

  5. ...have been manufactured under licence since 1990 by Iran Khodro, Iran’s largest car manufacturer.

    In light of self immolating Peugeot wannabees, I think that should be…Iran’s brightest car manufacturer!

    Posted by rinardman on 2007 01 01 at 11:56 PM • permalink

  6. Speaking of France and the external combustion engine, they’re at it again .

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 01 at 11:57 PM • permalink

  7. so France has a sunni disposition?

    Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 01 01 at 11:58 PM • permalink

  8. “there have been 125 incidents of cars catching fire without warning and then killing or injuring the occupants”

    “and then”?

    Posted by bobpence on 2007 01 02 at 12:06 AM • permalink

  9. Shit, even the New Zealand “Car Industry” was capable of reassembling the disassembled cars they imported without making them flaming death traps!

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 02 at 12:12 AM • permalink

  10. That must be the Peugeot Canyonero:

    Top of the line in utility sports,
    Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!

    Posted by cuckoo on 2007 01 02 at 12:17 AM • permalink

  11. PRESIDENT OF IRAN PRESS RELEASE

    Recently, it has come to the attention of the President that “youths” of no appearance, wearing black berets and red neckerchiefs and shirts with blue and white thin horizontals stripes, smelling of garlic have been responsible for numerous vehicles fires.

    The president believes the root causes are that these youths feel alienated. Therefore forced reversions to Islam will be introduced. There… that’s better.

    Additionally, The President would like to remind France that Allah, the most merciful and all knowing, has placed France at a specific distance from Iran for reasons unknown to mankind but which are totally unrelated to Iran’s effort to secure it’s safe, clean, peaceful and responsible efforts to reduce global warming by developing powerful nuclear .....aaah sorry.. nuclear power. 

    Thank you, drive safely and end Israel.

    Posted by Penguin on 2007 01 02 at 12:18 AM • permalink

  12. These cars are martyrs.  After immolation, they immediately go to heaven where 72 oil changes await them.

    Posted by Mystery Meat on 2007 01 02 at 12:25 AM • permalink

  13. PRESS RELEASE: IRAN KHODRO

    EMBARGO DATE:

    Posted by Kaboom on 2007 01 02 at 12:30 AM • permalink

  14. I blame poisoned Jewish bananas and combustible bagel bombs myself.

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 01 02 at 12:33 AM • permalink

  15. They’ve arrested a French mime as their chief suspect.
    But he’s not talkin’.

    Posted by Merlin on 2007 01 02 at 12:35 AM • permalink

  16. Bogart and Bacall.

    Hepburn and Tracey.

    Muslims and Burning Cars.

    There are some couples you just can’t keep apart.

    Posted by David Crawford on 2007 01 02 at 12:36 AM • permalink

  17. Ah the French. Anything to do with the French, will result in disaster, except when they are blowing up something, even their cars. Still, they are experts at appeasement, and foreign affairs skullduggery. Inspector Clouseau, is not even a safe French export.

    Posted by BJM on 2007 01 02 at 12:37 AM • permalink

  18. Buggered if I know what happened there.  My Khodro™ keyboard started doing funny things. Like smoking. Without a cigarette.

    Whatever.

    The press release just blamed it on the Fwench.

    Posted by Kaboom on 2007 01 02 at 12:38 AM • permalink

  19. I think the last comment by Tim “And these guys want a nuclear plant?” needs to be thought about in a different light?

    If these cars indicate the state of the quality manufacturing in Iran this is another reason we should not give them the technology to build some N-plants.

    Unless a shining but dead Iran country side is appealing to some…..mmmmm?

    Posted by The Big Fish on 2007 01 02 at 01:49 AM • permalink

  20. Of cooourse…randomly exploding cars to scare people out of private transport- ingenious, how environmentally sound this is- Aminaderj, you have done it again!… I give it a week before the greens start eyeing something similar.

    Posted by Mattofact on 2007 01 02 at 01:59 AM • permalink

  21. # 10…Cuckoo

    That must be the Peugeot Canyonero:

    “Top of the line in utility sports,
    Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!”


    Well shes Forty feet long and twenty feet wide, all twenty-seven tons of American pride…

    IT’S CANYONERO!!!

    Posted by Thomas on 2007 01 02 at 02:09 AM • permalink

  22. The Khodro Inferno, afterburner optional.

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 01 02 at 02:14 AM • permalink

  23. Shit, if they can’t even make a bloody Peugeot 405, I guess the atomic bomb is a long way off… or maybe it might even explode while it’s in the factory (one can only hope)....

    Posted by Bonmot on 2007 01 02 at 02:14 AM • permalink

  24. Ready-made car bombs. Heh. Whatever will the Islamic Republic think of next?

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 01 02 at 02:31 AM • permalink

  25. Has Imre been visiting Tehran lately?

    Posted by Phranger on 2007 01 02 at 02:54 AM • permalink

  26. #21,

    Well shes Forty feet long and twenty feet wide, all twenty-seven tons of American pride…

    Are you describing my potential mother in law?

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 01 02 at 03:55 AM • permalink

  27. # 12 - is tht using virgin oil?

    Posted by surfmaster on 2007 01 02 at 03:57 AM • permalink

  28. I guess internal combustion engine doesn’t translate too easily into Persian.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 02 at 05:06 AM • permalink

  29. No,no,no These are french cars guys,they are following french thinking and are surrendering to the enemy in advance.


    Car 1 .Hey,Whats that.

    Car 2 .Don’t know,could be a muslim.

    Arrrhg!!! WHOOSH crackel burn.

    Posted by sparrow on 2007 01 02 at 05:36 AM • permalink

  30. #22

    Comes with grille cleaner and BBQ accessories.

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 01 02 at 05:51 AM • permalink

  31. You guys never been to a French restaurant?
    They are simply flambeeing the Peugeot whilst running it in.

    Posted by JonathanH on 2007 01 02 at 06:41 AM • permalink

  32. HoWARD lied
    French cars fried
    Saddam died
    Fisk cried
    Islands sunk by tide
    Sheep to keep their hide
    Terry Lane to be our guide
    Kofi sighed
    Atomic reactors plied
    Our time we bide
    Until we say nighting nide

    Posted by mr creosote on 2007 01 02 at 06:57 AM • permalink

  33. Anyone for a Kombi flambe? A Coupe Alaska?
    Fritto Fiat? Chagrin Wagon? Cabriolet Fume? Utilite Carbonara?

    Posted by blogstrop on 2007 01 02 at 07:10 AM • permalink

  34. About my poem, be not so snide
    You wound my pride
    Allah be my guide
    Your head from neck I will divide
    Seventytwo goats to be at my side
    “That will be ecstasy”, I sighed

    Posted by mr creosote on 2007 01 02 at 07:14 AM • permalink

  35. It’s probably just because of localized global warming.

    Posted by blogagog on 2007 01 02 at 07:28 AM • permalink

  36. Has it occurred to anyone that this may in fact be a test for new kinds of car bombs that accidently got out of the factory test centre and onto the streets? 

    Or even better, a nefarious plan to deny responsibility when the first nuclear Peugeot lights off.

    /nutty conspiracy theory

    Posted by entropy on 2007 01 02 at 08:00 AM • permalink

  37. How Tasty Was My Little Peugeot #108:

    Peugeot Flambe

    Mais oui, c’est un recipe formidable! Une repas vraiment splendide toujours! Tres bien avec les musselmans magnifiques d’Iran….

    1. Prendez les musselmans dans la Peugeot.
    2. Ouvrez la petrol, et pour sur la tout de la Peugeot.
    3. Faire un match.
    4. Commencez la promenade. Et voila!!!

    Posted by JonathanH on 2007 01 02 at 08:01 AM • permalink

  38. mr creosote—as Instapundit says “HEH!”

    How many cars are there in France anyway?  I think this is all a plot by automobile manufacturers (all probably Jewish) to force poor Arab immigrants to buy new cars every year.

    Posted by Room 237 on 2007 01 02 at 11:22 AM • permalink

  39. Could it be that we have done the French wrong in assuming that the annual French Car-B-Q is really just spontaneously combusting Peugeots?

    Nah.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 01 02 at 11:49 AM • permalink

  40. I guess these are additions to Prez Ach’s suicide squads?

    Posted by Patricia on 2007 01 02 at 12:29 PM • permalink

  41. These aren’t 405s. They’re EUgos.

    Posted by SoberHT on 2007 01 02 at 05:56 PM • permalink

  42. Did any of these vehicles come with the enhanced ennui upgrade package?

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 01 02 at 07:04 PM • permalink

  43. I’d tell you, Grimmy, but it’s so tedious and bourgeois to use Google.

    Posted by andycanuck on 2007 01 02 at 07:10 PM • permalink

  44. The gene deep sense of uselessness and futility inbred into the french, combined with the general mulsim practice of self immolation in response to stressors generated by delusional reality constructs may be a “root cause” (also works when translated into Ozlander) for this explody trend amongst cars born in france but built by muslims.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 01 02 at 08:17 PM • permalink

  45. This COULD be a brilliant passive-aggressive counterattack by the French… but I bet they don’t even have les bolloques to claim credit for it…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 01 02 at 09:15 PM • permalink

  46. after pulling round several flaming wrecks, no doubt a Persian Proust will pen his “Remembrance of Things Passed.”

    Posted by dub kitty on 2007 01 02 at 09:26 PM • permalink

  47. So we have splodeymobiles for splodeydopes?

    Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 01 02 at 10:13 PM • permalink

  48. How do you say “Chernobyl” in Farsi?

    Posted by Secundus on 2007 01 03 at 05:55 PM • permalink

  49. Tehran

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 01 03 at 09:09 PM • permalink

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