pic: HOT Team Wheels

[Beth Sweet]

Originally Posted by abeD

So are students allowed to drive? (of course these students must have liscenses) I'm asking becuase it would be so cool to just drive around in that for a day.

Naw, they don't let us drive it, as much as we do try to grab the keys while they're not looking...

[Tytus Gerrish]

wow!

i wish Pratt&Whitney would give us a jet.

That would TOTaly Own

[Billfred]

Very nice car.

My only gripe with hummers is the fuel economy thing, but if you're gonna actually need the power anyway, you might as well get it with style, eh?

Now for some spinners!

[Allison K]

I think it's awesome that they have that much team spirit. Of course, this is comming from another GM team member (226), so maybe its just that I've been GM brainwashed (All in light fun and completely not seriously, of course).

Allison

[aaronbr28040]

I just have one thing to say "that is frickin awesome". I dont know if i'm the only one but for some reason when i saw HOT and wheels in the same thread I definately expected to see a hot wheels car lol. All my team has is a short bus that we get from the school..........maybe I'll post pics sometime later, I'm sure everybody would get a good laugh out of that (the first aid kit inside says FIRST (aid) Team 900 from when we forgot our kit for a competition one year). When I saw the picture my mouth definately dropped and I was drooling. Anyways, good luck to your team.
-Aaron

[sburro]

Just as a side note:
Gm I believe gave away a bunch of electric powered street legal golf carts to non-profit organizations. This was to meet the new federal law about having so many electric vehicles on the road. My college has two of these.

[MikeDubreuil]

Originally Posted by Tytus Gerrish

wow!

i wish Pratt&Whitney would give us a jet.

That would TOTaly Own

Under the same mentality... I wish Textron Systems would give us a bomb

[Marygrace]

LOL, eeeeeeeeeewww a H2???? No no no, *shakes head* *sigh* classic all the way, it would be awesome if it was a H1 with a truck bed and red & black. LOL, im just kdding, kinda :-P

[sanddrag]

I was not in any way offended by the picture. All I'm saying is that there is no such thing as a free lunch so whoever is paying for it gets to decide how many people it serves.

I don't disagree one bit that it is great to have such a big sponsor who gives you such cool stuff, and I don't disagree that the team may have no control over the gifts of their sponsor, but as I said, the value in those vehicles could be put to better use.

[Mike Soukup]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

I was not in any way offended by the picture. All I'm saying is that there is no such thing as a free lunch so whoever is paying for it gets to decide how many people it serves.

I don't disagree one bit that it is great to have such a big sponsor who gives you such cool stuff, and I don't disagree that the team may have no control over the gifts of their sponsor, but as I said, the value in those vehicles could be put to better use.

You don't get it, do you? HOT needed a new truck to pull their trailer around the country. GM had a slightly used H2 that they can do nothing with except donate to a worthy cause. GM decides to donate it to HOT because GM knows HOT will get a lot of use out of it. GM also gets the added benefit of students and engineers drooling over the beautiful truck. HOT takes the gift and uses it to transport their robot & tools across the country, and because they're such nice people they also haul other teams' equipment across the country. So in reality GM's gift to HOT was also a gift to many other teams in Michigan. Isn't that good use of the truck?

[Rayvon121]

How about those amphibous cars. Get one of those things! Then you would be blinging!

[Greg Perkins]

Mike,

bravo for hitting the nail on the head.

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sorry for the earlier reply i stated, i have deleted what i said