Bah! THe french beat the Krauts by 20 years. Choeck out the 1994 Citroën Xantia Activa. Here's a video demonstrating the active suspension, plenty more race footage on Youtube http://youtu.be/kQT7IMHvBGo

Nitpicking: standard CDs are 12 cm in diameter. The 8 cm discs never caught on.

Also in Finland, I too have a 512 kbit (actually ~600 kbit according to speedtest.net) and pay 5,80 €/month, including a complimentary ZTE Blade (=Orange San Francisco). Two year contract, mind you.

You make a grown man Cray (to paraphrase the Stones... remember the Win 95 launch?)