Toyota's top Prius executive dies in plane crash
David Hermance was credited with overseeing the successful development and launch of the hybrid car.
November 27 2006: 8:32 AM EST
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The Toyota executive who oversaw the popular Prius gas-electric hybrid car program died in a plane crash Saturday off the coast of California.
Fifty rounds of .22LR ammunition to the first person to spot a thread on
Can't wait to see the conspiracy theories that come out of THIS one.
ReplyDeleteWonder if there's going to be a Congressional investigation?
Not blaming BushCo yet, but it will come.
ReplyDeleteYeah, they got John Denver that way, too.
ReplyDeleteIf that was a good reason to kill someone, then there'd be a whole lot of dead Audi, VW, and Peugeot engineers.
ReplyDeleteIt's like JFK. If he was killed by the industrial-military complex, then why is Jimmy Carter still alive.
This could bring development of the plug-in Toyota airplane to a screeching halt.
ReplyDeleteThe Tesla will keep the electric car movement alive. Think I can get to Vegas on a single charge too.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.slate.com/id/2154425/ and http://www.teslamotors.com/
It wasn't that Denver ran out of fuel entirely, it was that the previous owner of his kitplane had moved the tank select to a position behind his shoulder. When we went to change over the fuel tank, he accidently pushed down on one rudder pedal... and thats all she wrote.
ReplyDeleteAs to the Prius guy.. there is a certain irony in this hero of enviromentalism tooling around in a private aerobatics plane. Big ol' internal combustion engine carted right up into the atmosphere and all. :)
Wernt the Russian Yak prop planes wwII fighters? Of course its CNN, so I ought to expect NewSpeak from them...
ReplyDeleteBradley off road vehicle?
k-bar utility knife?
U.S. Military Peacekeepers?
Yakovlev design bureau did indeed produce fighters in WWII.
ReplyDeleteThey also produce a very popular aerobatic plane today.
Will this be generic Russian ammo that reeks of ammonia, or good stuff?
ReplyDeleteBecause I ain't even lookin' over there for anything less than match ammo.
I just spent 5 minutes browsing around DU. I feel so ... dirty. Bleah.
ReplyDelete"I just spent 5 minutes browsing around DU. I feel so ... dirty. Bleah."
ReplyDeleteEeew. Went to DU and mydd.com, too. Not worth it even for Eley Tenex.
Sorry, Tam.
I guess its BushCo's evil plot that the Prius costs so much that only people that don't need to save gas money can afford it, too?
ReplyDeletepff.
I found the thread on DU, but they got sloppy and failed to pin the blame where it properly lies: on Cheney's elite team of genetically-enhanced cyborg bodyguards.
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