"SonorousSpeedJoe" (SonorousSpeedJoe)
09/20/2016 at 12:45 • Filed to: Found Around UMD
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"SonorousSpeedJoe" (SonorousSpeedJoe)
09/20/2016 at 12:45 • Filed to: Found Around UMD | 3
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This year’s Fall Career Fair is about to get underway, and Ford is showing up for the second year in a row. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , they brought a regular Mustang GT with the Black Accent Package to show off; this year, they’ve brought a pre-production F-150 Raptor and a Grabber Blue Shelby GT350.
DENSO and BMW are also gonna be at the Career Fair this semester.
EL_ULY
> SonorousSpeedJoe
09/19/2016 at 18:23 |
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More pics of that sweet Escort wagon please!!!!!!
Bourbon&JellyBeans
> SonorousSpeedJoe
09/19/2016 at 19:17 |
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Hello fellow Terp!
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> SonorousSpeedJoe
09/19/2016 at 19:40 |
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The truck looks like the guy who was previously Associate Vice President of Excessively Large Tailgate Lettering with Ram trucks got fired, then immediately was immediately given a job at Ford and promoted to Executive Vice President of Excessively Large Grille and Tailgate Lettering.
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> SonorousSpeedJoe
09/19/2016 at 19:58 |
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Where on campus is that? Over by the wind tunnel?
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SonorousSpeedJoe
> Cash Rewards
09/19/2016 at 20:04 |
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Yeah, they're at the lot across from Kim. Why they don’t park it closer to the events like Local Motors, I don’t know. Maybe they will move them, but I didn’t see that happen last year.
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SonorousSpeedJoe
> Bourbon&JellyBeans
09/19/2016 at 20:06 |
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‘Sup.
Levitas
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09/19/2016 at 20:24 |
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As a Purdue aero grad, tell me about this wind tunnel....
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SonorousSpeedJoe
> Levitas
09/19/2016 at 21:10 |
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This is it.
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> Levitas
09/19/2016 at 21:14 |
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Aerospace program is the Glen Martin (of Lockheed Martin) department. They have stupid amounts of cash so yes, their own, on campus, wind tunnel.
Vicente Esteve
> SonorousSpeedJoe
09/19/2016 at 21:24 |
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Damn, Ford NAILED the styling on this new F-150.
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SonorousSpeedJoe
> Vicente Esteve
09/19/2016 at 21:39 |
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It looks great all around, and I love it from the particular angle I shot it from in that first pic.
WRXasaurus
> SonorousSpeedJoe
09/19/2016 at 21:52 |
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You got me all excited, then I realized you meant the other UMD, not my alma mater, the University of Minnesota Duluth.
Takuro Spirit
> EL_ULY
09/19/2016 at 21:53 |
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I was gonna ask what Ford exec brought that!
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SonorousSpeedJoe
> WRXasaurus
09/19/2016 at 22:00 |
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Yeah, I think that more than one place uses those initials. I don’t think that this is the only College Park either, LOL.
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WRXasaurus
> SonorousSpeedJoe
09/19/2016 at 22:04 |
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Yeah, they are the biggest two. The thing that really got me was the shot of the raptor looks like it was right outside of the Civil and Mechanical engineering buildings.
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Vicente Esteve
> SonorousSpeedJoe
09/19/2016 at 22:06 |
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It’s something else. Like a spacial vehicle or something.
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SonorousSpeedJoe
> Vicente Esteve
09/19/2016 at 22:08 |
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I find it greatly amusing when a large-enough truck tries to park in this particular lot - the Raptor barely fits, while a larger 4-door Super Duty juts out into the parking lot if it isn’t taking up two spaces.
The Raptor has presence, that’s for sure.
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Vicente Esteve
> SonorousSpeedJoe
09/19/2016 at 22:14 |
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You should see how trucks look in Mexico. There hasn’t been a single Raptor I have seen in the confinements of a single space.
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EL_ULY
> Takuro Spirit
09/19/2016 at 22:30 |
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The mostest badasstest one of them all lol :]
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> SonorousSpeedJoe
09/20/2016 at 06:45 |
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Densoooooo!
(I work for a competitor)
jjhats
> SonorousSpeedJoe
09/20/2016 at 08:30 |
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no car companies ever came when I went there :(
Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
> SonorousSpeedJoe
09/20/2016 at 09:25 |
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One of my close friends had an Escort wagon that same color in college — in 1996. It was an LX automatic and she took it everywhere.
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SonorousSpeedJoe
> jjhats
09/20/2016 at 10:31 |
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LOL. Yeah, despite the two(!) Terps Racing teams, automotive companies actually coming to the fair is a fairly recent development.
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> SonorousSpeedJoe
09/20/2016 at 13:14 |
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I don’t know, just by looking at the tailgate, I can’t tell if it’s a ford. Almost as bad as the 4' RAM on the back of those trucks. I guess I'm just old fashioned and like a clean flat tailgate. Different strokes I guess.
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SonorousSpeedJoe
> merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc
09/20/2016 at 13:52 |
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I think that the fat plastic piece that Ford stuck on the rear of the F-150 Raptor is fine, but the brighter ones on regular F-150s are an acquired taste. As for RAM, I don’t like the RAM lettering when it’s accompanied by that tiny chrome strip.
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SonorousSpeedJoe
> Cash Rewards
09/20/2016 at 13:55 |
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So you're a Terp?
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> SonorousSpeedJoe
09/20/2016 at 14:09 |
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Alum. Got my doctorate from the BioE department in 2011. Spent far too much time in the Kim building!
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> merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc
09/20/2016 at 14:24 |
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You mean like back in the 60s and 70s when they did the exact same thing?
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> Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero
09/20/2016 at 15:39 |
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I'm thinking all the way back to the 90s.... I guess your right though, but the older stylings had the letters not taking up damn near the whole tailgate. My old mans late 70s ford had a nice tasteful block ford on the gate but I don't remember it being anymore than a couple inches tall. I'm more a fan of my gen II Dakota, nice clean tailgate, especially after I took the goofy ass R/T stickers off it.
Garrett Davis
> merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc
09/20/2016 at 15:54 |
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Ahem...
Yes, I know I went overboard.
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jjhats
> SonorousSpeedJoe
09/20/2016 at 15:56 |
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I just found im going to this with my company tomorrow. stop by amt engineering if you want a job in engineering
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> Garrett Davis
09/20/2016 at 16:04 |
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Lol. Nice. I guess nostalgia has clouded my memory. Comparing the old and the new, it's not as bad as I thought. I'm still not a fan, but different strokes for different folks.
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Levitas
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09/20/2016 at 19:58 |
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Much bigger than the main Purdue tunnel, but we don’t have to pay anything for test time in ours.
We also have a hypersonic tunnel since that’s still heavily researched.
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SonorousSpeedJoe
> jjhats
09/21/2016 at 20:57 |
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Sorry, I didn’t go to the fair today LOL. I had classes for the whole afternoon, though I wish I’d skipped one to go the fair instead.
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jjhats
> SonorousSpeedJoe
09/21/2016 at 21:11 |
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Haha no worries. I drove by this lot and didn’t see the truck or mustang. Also they’re booth kind of sucked. My coworker went to psu’s fair last week and said ford had a GT in the stadium arena next to Chevys corvette on display as well
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SonorousSpeedJoe
> jjhats
09/21/2016 at 21:53 |
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The Shelby showed up later in the afternoon today, while I haven’t seen the Raptor since yesterday. They’ve definitely been moving them around.
I’m rather annoyed that I still haven’t seen the new GT in person yet - it wasn’t at the D.C. Auto Show this year or last year, and the one that won Le Mans has been shown off at other campuses (just search Oppo).
I’ve seen a couple of i3s around campus in the past couple of days, but I’m not sure whether BMW brought them here.