Ford Vehicle

Already reeling from multibillion dollar losses, Ford Motor Company got more bad news. It has lost its standing as the world s second biggest maker of car-bombs to Toyota. Industry analysts credit Toyota s aggressive marketing in the all-important Middle East, particularly in the carbomb growth markets of Iraq and Afghanistan. Ford will not take this lying down. said CEO Alan Mulally, in announcing his company s plans to fight back against Toyota.

Not when Ford pioneered the field of exploding vehicles. After all, we built the Pinto - which exploded even WITHOUT a bomb in it! Mulally then announced Ford had reworked its Explorer SUV to accomodate bombs and renamed it the Exploder .

[By changing only one letter, Ford was able to save money by re-using slightly modified Explorer nameplates.] But Iraqi insurgent analysts ridiculed the Exploder as just repackaged junk: Changing the R to a D - they think that s fooling anyone? That thing doesn t blow up any better than before. Meanwhile Toyota stunned the industry by announcing the first vehicle specifically DESIGNED as a car-bomb.

Named the Toyota Blast, it features seats easily removed to accomodate more explosives, 35% more window area than competitors to assure more flying glass shards, a high-capacity gas tank designed to quickly rupture, and controls which arm and detonate the explosives with one touch of a button. Options include having the bombs pre-installed at the factory, with the customer s choice of TNT, napalm or nitroglycerine. Ford s response took everyone by surprise: It introduced the first hybrid carbomb.