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...turns to this line of work when Lila (Misty Upham), an outcast from the Indian reservation, steals her car, which is ideal for smuggling - capacious trunk and a dashboard release button, handy for quickly off-loading human cargo should trouble arise. The two women form an uneasy partnership and, of course, bad things do start to haunt them. There are the cops and the border patrol to worry about. Also the dangerous scumbags who run the smuggling ring. And the possibility that the ice on the river might crack under the car's weight...
SHIA LABEOUF arrested for DUI while filming Transformers 2. Car transformed into Breathalyzer...
Abbas seems friendly enough and laughs easily. As his car breezes through Iraqi army checkpoints at the entrance to Baghdad's notorious and sprawling Sadr City slum, he talks about killing Sunnis. "We caught Takfiris [members of a fundamentalist Sunni Islamist sect] who were [working] with the Americans. We didn't want to kill them, but the government was too weak to do anything at the time. So we killed them all and put them in a big grave...
...Look how you got in here today, as a foreign journalist. Did you get permission from the Iraqi National Guard?" Abbas asks. "No. If anything, that's evidence they don't control this place." As he speaks, a car riddled with bullet holes, carrying four young men, pulls up next to him at a street corner. Above it, a billboard on the median depicts four young martyrs - all killed fighting the Americans, according to Mohanid. One holds a gun and is draped in ammunition, and like most other martyr billboards around the neighborhood, al-Sadr's picture floats next...
...Still, the launch of two such good-looking cars is a milestone on the way to wider popularity. "It's all about consumer acceptance," says Scott Brownlee, a spokesman for Toyota and Lexus in Britain. "If you build something which is fantastic, does 1,000 miles to the gallon, but the consumer doesn't want it, you won't succeed." The eccentric, inelegant and downright unmarketable designs that have gone before may be giving way to a new breed of electric car that is attractive, stylish and as much an appeal to our ego as to our green conscience. Judging...