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from the Automotive Olympic Village here at Car Talk Plaza. Now are you sick of

the Olympics yet? Are they over yet?

Have they started yet?

I mean, everybody knows about the basic Summer Olympic event.

You know, there's running, there's jumping, swimming,

and then there are the various combinations of those three there's the

run jump and swim swim jump and run the jump swim and run the swim jump run and then

the swim again you know the double swim double swim, double jump, double run. Anyway, we thought in the

interest of variety it might be good to add a couple of automotive events to

the roster. Create a little competition among different types of cars. For instance,

here is one of which we know the American team would have the advantage, the

electric window race. I love it. You know they always have different distances different distances in races right?

Well we could have the down, the down and up on the marathon, the down and up 26 times.

I like it. There must be something to do with with cupholders but I don't

know what it would be. Well I don't know either I know but I got another one here the

Max A.C. cooldown. You leave the cars out in the sun in the Walmart's parking lot in Atlanta, all day long.

Then like at 3 o'clock you start the cars, put the AC on max, and see which interior reaches 60 degrees first.

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