NAME: Barrack Obama
OFFICE: President of the united states
ENEMIES: Al Qaeda, harmas, Army of islam, Ku Klux Klan, red brigade, abu sayyaf, republican party, U.S war vetereans, Al Badr, Baader meinhoff, orange volunteers, Hezbollah, islamic jihad. IRA, Revoluntary armed forces of columbia, november 17 organisation, mohammed army, ansar dine, taliban, tamil tigers movement, ulster movement, libyan LFG, palestine liberation front, al shabaab, wiki leaks , Kim Jong-un, Ghosts of Osama bin laden, Gadaffi and saddam Hussein etc
OFFICIAL CAR: 2009 Cadillac DTS limo a.k.a "the beast"
QUANTITY: 1 car
PRICE: $300,000 (47 million naira)

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NAME: Stella Oduah, Miss
OFFICE: minister of avaiation, Nigeria
ENEMIES: Ex- husband, femi fani-kayode, village witches, dana airlines
OFFICIAL CARS: 2008 bullet proof BMW 760iL HSS a.k.a "BMW Annoyance";two armored Lexus limousine cars and two Prado armored sports utility vehicles (SUVs)
QUANTITY: 6 cars
PRICE: $3.2 (535 million Naira )

THIS IS WHAT I CALL REAL NIGERIAN CITIZEN...CARRY GO JARE. MY BROTHER NOTHING DO U

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Goddex:

Some comments can even be so annoying. How old are you?

Old enough to know a crook when I see one.

lacidi:
Are you actuallying following this whole saga? Did you take time to read what the NCAA boss said about the dignitaries? Did you see where he mentioned the agencies that the dignitares represent? Did you not see that the list was all Airpace/airport inspection and accreditiation agencies. How does that then concern foreign afffairs ministry?

Na wa. The urge to find Oduah guilty has really made people to lose the ability for objective arguement.

Ok they need Bulletproof cars to be ferried around. Common please do think?

Are you saying "all Airpace/airport inspection and accreditiation agencies" need so much protection?

Are they coming from Pakistan? Oh common not all of us grew up in bamboo trees

All I see here, is someone coached and prepared all her answers, I smell a cover up

Why would the Aviation Minister attend to or purchase bulletproof cars foreign dignitaries?

Dont we have a foreign Minister?

naija noni:
He won the FA Cup !!.

Chelsea won Nothing in 2008 under Avram Grant

Actually the 2003 / 04 season Eto was at a small club (Captained) Real Majorca leading them to Copa del Rey final and won it, summer of 2004 he joined Barcelona and he was Barca's main striker, his last season for Majorca in 04 he scored 21 goals.

I cant remember Michelle been banged all over the room in front of a camera by Ray J

naija noni:

Were d likes of Diouf,Etoo, individually better than Okocha ??.No.
!!.

Did you watch Did you watch Diouf at the WC in 2002 and the nations cup in Mali where Nigeria was so rubbish

Some people need to be objective and deal with facts and not assumption the footballer of the year award is for a year not a Tournament. Diego Forlan won the most valuable player at the 2010 WC. but Messi won the FIFA Footballer of the year.

naija noni:
Thank u my brother,u said it all.
In 2004 Okocha clearly did far better than etoo.
At d nations cup Okocha was voted the most valuable player and highest goal scorer.At club level,Okocha was on fire for bolton.Scored so many screamers.Entertained d EPL with some amazing unbelievable skills.
That was d year d british fans started calling him "Too good they named him twice".And bolton didnt do too bad that season,i think they finished in d top 7.Was one of bolton's best in many years.He won d BBC african player of d year that year.
Meanwhile etoo was just begining to adapt to barcelona,he did okay but not up to okocha.But he won d La Liga tittle and some other trophies while Okocha won nothing.
Hence he was given d award ahead of Okocha.
Yaya won nothing dis year.And like i said no player in d past 15 yrs won d award without winning any trophy aside adebayor in 2008 like Omar22 said,d award was meant 4 drogba who won d FA Cup dat year,but he just didnt show up,so d award was given 2 d runner-up adebayor.

Drogba won nothing in 2008

emmasege: Was Eto'o better than Okocha in 2004 when the former won Africa's best?. Okocha far outplayed him and was better than Eto'o as at 2004 when Eto'o had not yet peaked. But at the end of the day, it went the way of the Camerounian.
Nobody is saying that Mikel is better than Yaya, but putting all the criteria into consideration, Mikel deserves to be crowned as Africa's best in the outgoing year. His personal contribution to the national squad at AFCON (Africa's biggest soccer fiesta) was far above that of Yaya. He gave a good account of himself at the CONFEDERATIONS cup (where Yaya was absent) and won laurel (EUROPA) at club level. Besides these, he's a key player in the national team and also in his club.

In 2004 Eto was Barcelona player, Okocha was a Bolton Wanderer player in the EPL, even lost the league cup final to Middlesboro. The Confederation Cup Nigeria won one game against the worst team, look forgive me but I dont celebrate Average or mediocre performance. Yaya Toure has been a monster since January to Date. So because Yaya Toure was absent from a tournament automatically disqualifies him from an award. Just like messi was present at Euro 2012

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Donalð Genes:

yes to your question with regards to yaya vs mikel, mikel was better for the past few months and yr a lil more than yaya with the slew of awards and cups he has amassed,technical yaya is prolific and sharper than mikel but unfortunately has not won even a spoon,to sum it all, mikel's name is suppose to be there in place of yaya

Are you serious?

in the last year and half Mikel only started 26 games compared to 54 games Yaya toure started

striker9: I answered the question,can you please answer mine.Who won CAF player of the tournament AFCON 2013?

Moses won the fair play award and finals man of the match he didnt win player of the tournament Jonathan Pitroipa the Burkinabé footballer won it


But Toure is light years ahead of Mikel, even if you listen to how Jose Mourinho describe Yaya Toure on saturday, its like calling Yaya a monster of player and current captain of City in the absence of Kompany, Mikel has been on the bench for Lampard and Ramires. He lacks the X-factor Yaya Toure could hit a 30 yard screamer out of the blue, or a 70 yards power run with the ball...

A-40:

He also started on pole! That should tell you he had a good weekend! Whether he would have gone on to win is moot you can't categorically say if he will or won't besides rain is usually the ultimate leveller and a good driver has to show some mastery of those conditions. Give the man his dues

How many wet races do we have on average per season? We've not had one this year! So that's not saying much

Vettel victory in Italian GP back in 2008 it has an explanation. First of all Vettel was very talented but I think that he still had a few weaknesses back then, which by now he had managed to resolve. It was a wet race, including qualifying and we know that on these conditions we can see many surprising results, Perez nearly won last year Malaysian GP, only Alonso's driving skill negated him. Kovalainen could had beaten Vettel at Monza but you can't rely on him when you need to put something special. If I remember well all the STR and RBR cars managed to qualify in the top five-sixth, so they were pretty much suited to the conditions but neither of their drivers were as good as Vettel. I have to add that prior to 2010 the STR's were designed by Newey as well and back then (2008) he lamented about the deficiencies of the Renault engine, compared to the Ferrari on the back of the STR's.

After that Renault asked the FIA for a temporary unfreeze rule for the Renault engine in order to recover some of their deficit for 2009 and onwards. I remember Newey saying that his chassis has a lot of potential and if tailored around the Ferrari engine, they can fight with the teams ahead of them. By half season he concentrated on the development of STR and they managed to beat RBR at the end of the season and to win in Italy. Vettel drove very well (especially compared to Bourdais) that season, it was clear that he was a mercurial talent. I posted that to explain how STR managed to beat RBR that year, and it wasn't all about Vettel's talent.

But in the rain Coulthard(RBR) and Vettel(STR) managed to get a podium once in 2008. But for most of the season the midfield was pretty much close, but some way behind Ferrari, McLaren and BMW Sauber, until Renault managed to join them at the end of the season. In 2008, all the teams got into the podium except FI, even Barrichello in the poor Honda RA108 got a podium in a rain soaked race, or Piquet Jr finished 2nd in the semi-chaotic german GP, or Glock in the Hungarian GP. That season opened many chances for all the drivers and Vettel was one of the drivers which delivered. This one isn't like 2008. Whatever a driver does is impossible to get a podium unless you are driving one of the top four teams. As I said Vettel performed very well in 2008, finishing 8th on the standings after the drivers of the top three teams and Alonso.

To add something about 2008, Hamilton, Massa and Raikkonen were the only drivers which won races that year without neccesitating special conditions(like rain) or benefiting from rivals bad luck and capitalising on it(it doesn't mean that they didn't deserved their victories). Kubica won in Canada because the SC was deployed(remember SC rules at the time) and Hamilton crashed on Raikkonen at the pitlane. Kovalainen won because Hamilton's tyre and Massa's engine blew. Vettel won because of the rain and the bad luck of Hamilton in qualifying. Alonso won because of the crashgate in Singapore and because Hamilton messed up the field at the first corner in Japan. As for the topic, Hamilton didn't had necessarily the best car in 2008. I think that Ferrari was stronger. But Massa wasn't consistent in the first half of the season, and Raikkonen form dropped badly in the second half. Lewis did a better job than them so he won the title.


But I still congrat Vettel because he drove a flawless drive.

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McLaren should have been in the mix up only for McLaren to change the drive rod from push to pull (rumour Jenson Button's advice) because last years Macca was one of the fastest cars

I just finish watching the whole season

A-40:

He also started on pole! That should tell you he had a good weekend! Whether he would have gone on to win is moot you can't categorically say if he will or won't besides rain is usually the ultimate leveller and a good driver has to show some mastery of those conditions. Give the man his dues

How many wet races do we have on average per season? We've not had one this year! So that's not saying much

The first thing I said on most web site is to congratulate Vettel

A-40:

If I recall correctly he was on pole! Every team is equally affected by the rains so same way it worked for Vettel is also the same way it could have worked against him

You didnt answer my question? Like I said in the wet its a level playing field, Hulkenberg got pole in the wet, Honda's only win was in the wet

if am correct Vettel has only won one wet race since that day

A-40:

How can it not count? He still had to win it! He was only 21 FFS

Do you honestly think a Torro Rosso with Vettel as the driver will win at Monza in the DRY? NO CHANCE

Even Jordan racing won 2 twice in the wet

in 2002 we had 2 Asian teams at the quarter finals one in the Semis African has yet to get a 2 teams out of the group stage in one tournament.

Nigeria qualifies means its time for some officials to make money

Togo they decided not to pay the players their daily allowance

Afam4eva:
I think the problem here is that you guys don't know what the term "celebrity" means. The like sof Achebe, Soyinka and Chimamanda are celebrities just like musicians and Actors. The fact that people don't faint when they meet these people does not denote that they're not celebrities.

A celebrity is a person, who has a prominent profile and commands some degree of public fascination and influence in day-to-day media (from Wiki)

Am sorry that does not apply to writers or Novelist they are not in the public eye they are not fascinated by the public, the are not in magazines, they dont get endorsements or sponsorships, they are mainly in the back ground! You cant tell me that some one like JK Rowling is more popular than David Beckham because she is not.

Niseamaka:

Stella is worth over $10 billion. She makes more money from her businesses in the oil sector than she will ever make from the aviation ministry. The vehicles was not bought by her for her personal use. It was bought by NCAA for official uses, meaning the vehicles are properties of the federal government ( aviation ministry ). The prices of the vehicles were inflated by reporters pushing a particular agenda. The real cost of those 2nd hand vehicles are not even up to a million dollars. Past leaders of the country embezzled billions of dollars and some people are making noise here b/c two 2nd hand vehicles were bought for official use.

Even Roman Abramovich is worth that much

Goke7: I will say mikel due to his influence in the super eagles during the afcon, yaya toure switches off when it matters most, one of the reasons ivory coast is yet to win the afcon with their so called golden generation of players.

Its player of the YEAR

Not player of the tournament (One month)

Mikel is a bench warmer, Yaya is Man City's best player at the moment

Lip service for the public

laidthrice: That's so not true, a merc keep its forms @ all times, but you see a honda car and toyota car wrinkle and loose body shape, you can neva compare a merc to a toyota! Its like comparing a concorde jet to a sesna aircraft.

Mercedes Benz suffer from rust or corrosion

I'm not proud to have to post this but over the past few years I've noticed many MB cars here in the Northeast US with rust which I consider unacceptable. The W202, 203, 210 and 220 seem to be particularly rust prone.


I really love Mercedes cars as I was practically born into them. I've driven nothing else all my life except for a BMW during my college years. I've put over 500,000 miles on Mercedes automobiles. I'm particularly proud of an 800,000 mile 220D which I successfully drove cross country and back with no breakdowns. I'm also proud of a 450SEL which was driven to 330,000 miles with absolutely no engine work except for a timing chain replacement. I still have a 1971 220 bought new by my parents. This car is in pristine shape.

I am still the proud owner of mostly older cars: 1958 300d, 1963 220SEb coupe, 1971 220, 1971 280SL, 1973 220D, 1982 240D and a 2005 G500. I am however very hesitant to purchase anything new or newer from Mercedes based upon what I consider a pretty bad rust track record. It's too early to tell what the W204, 212, 221 etc models will do and honestly I'm not sure I want to find out. I would really like to continue to buy Mercedes cars but some reassurance would be necessary. Where I would get the reassurance I don't know!!

Here are some pictures I've taken over the past few months to illustrate my point. These are not what I would consider fluke occurrences as I've seen many, many more such cars which I did not photograph. These cars have rust everywhere - not just one isolated panel which could be attributed to poorly done bodywork. All these photos were taken in Massachusetts

addictiv: german cars are stronger, meaner, more efficient , and timeless when compared to Japanese cars

Japanese car industry uses less raw materials to make a car, thats why you hardly see a Japanese car that rust, you are more likely to see rust on a Merc than a Honda

omonnakoda:
Where do you get your info from? Most cars these days use the same parts and engine manufcturers in the same factories
https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/pressclub/p/pcgl/pressDetail.html;jsessionid=2DxgSnlFj92FhTgQJhykCwRQ5f87JjhK0xtvGv2ZTFKZR3pvDhp2!2139190307?title=bmw-group-and-toyota-motor-corporation-deepen-collaboration-by-signing-binding-agreements&outputChannelId=6&id=T0136503EN&left_menu_item=node__804

If you study motor sport you will know that the German cars have no advantage and they have no secrets
From a business perspective Toyota motors is the Largest motor company in the world about equal to VW BMW and Ford all combined

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=VOW.DE&ql=0
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/co?s=TM+Competitors
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=BMW.DE&ql=1

Thank you!!!

I mentioned yesterday that the highest selling Volkswagen car is the Golf, this shows where the company targets, the small car industry. VW is way bigger that Merc and BMW. The VW Golf still struggles to compete in the small car industry against what Nissan, Toyota or Honda has to produce over the last 30 years.

aytevans:

www.autoscout.de

http://www.mobile.de (all over europe)

Siena:

It's easy to see Japan as being dominant when it comes to Sports / Coupes. Because that's where Japan really seem to concentrate their efforts.

The Germans have infiltrated every corner of the motor industry. Which is why today, we have Sporting variants of full-size luxury sedans, mid-size family sedans, wagons, hatchbacks etc. And of course, the obligatiory coupes and roadsters.

If am correct, the small car sales in the last 20 years only VW Golf and Renault Clio has competed with the Japanese models

omoeso: Enough said... Now you guys should ask yourself this simple question, why do so many multi-millionaires/billionaires use german cars. Also, notice most presidents and head of states prefer german cars as official cars. Very simple....absolutely un-comparable!

The luxury car market is dominated by the German car industry

The Sport car / 2 door / Coupe market is dominated by Japan

Siena:

So in short, the Japanese nurtured an idea, came up with a mediocre SUV, then the Germans came along, took the Japmobile apart, then built an SUV that's light years ahead of the Honda CRV in every way. So they came out on top!

If this allegation is true, it's an even bigger slap in the face of the Japanese, from the Germans!

Back to reality. The Landrover Freelander share many similarities with the Honda CRV, the Freelander's AWD transfer box was Japanese-sourced.

BMW's X5 shares no similarities, the engine / transmission for instance is mounted longitudonally, compared to the Honda CRV's transverse layout. The only link between BMW and Landrover was the diesel engines. Landrover Freelander was fitted with the BMW 2.0 common-rail diesel engine from late 2003 in the first generation facelift car, then with the second generation Freelander, the BMW 2.2 DOHC 16V common-rail diesel was used.

Honda and Rover had an alliance circa 1983, with the 1st generation Honda Accord sharing the same basic bodyshell, engines, transmission, suspension and interior trim with the British-owned Triumph Acclaim, which was later bought out by Austin-Rover. Subsequent Rover and Honda models shared lots of similarities, both body and mechanical:

1985 Honda Civic / Ballade = Rover 213/216.
1986 Honda Accord = Rover 600.

BMW bought out Rover, which later became defunct. BMW retained the MINI brand. During BMW's ownership of Rover, the Rover 75 was born. Due to the alliance, the Rover 75 shared rear suspension components with the BMW E39, despite the mainstream 75's being FWD. The Ford Mustang-powered Rover 75 was the range-topper, and RWD, bringing it closer to the BMW E39.

So the link is clear today:

BL (British Leyland) - Honda.
Honda - Rover.
Rover - BMW.

As far as I'm aware, there was no joint collaboration between BMW and Honda, during the build of the BMW X5 and Honda CRV.

Am not saying they had a joint collaboration, BMW didnt want to develop their own technology, buying Rover Group PLC was a short cut into the 4x4 and small car industry!

Honda owned, 20% stake in Rover, but felt betrayed by BAe by selling Rover to BMW instead of Honda, that's when Honda pulled out of Rover. And thats when BMW changed the Rover 600 series with the Rover 75 model

BMW buying Rover Group PLC gave them a huge advantage the X5 is built from Land Rovers technology