AZ peeps

FreshTopEnd
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Edited Date/Time 3/28/2014 12:12pm
Checking out this pic from an article on Apple's new sapphire plant in Mesa, and I'm wondering what the the adjacent land was used for? It looks like a lot of OHV or car/bike tracks.

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crf250pilot
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3/28/2014 10:22am
Thats GM's old proving grounds, had a few friends that worked out there testing cars in the early 80's.
bvm111
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3/28/2014 10:23am Edited Date/Time 3/28/2014 10:24am
I am a native of Phoenix and a lot of car manufacturers have their desert test facilities located in AZ, I know Ford and Audi had them there as well as GM. It was cool you could see a lot of the next gen models all camoflaged and being tested on the freeways as well!

edit: CRF beat me to it!
Agent717
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3/28/2014 10:34am
My house is on what used to be those empty lots across the street from that building.
RedRum666
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3/28/2014 10:38am
GM proving grounds is correct.....they have pretty much demo'd most of the building and road surfaces over the past few months....going to become houses and shopping malls....the big apple building WAS originally going to be a solar production plant....but the wheels fell off it.... THANKS OBAMA !!

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500guy
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3/28/2014 11:40am Edited Date/Time 3/28/2014 11:41am
Growing up that literally used to be in the Middle of nowhere, We dove hunted out there and road out dirt bikes too.

I think they moved that GM testing to Yuma

Uhaul has a big testing place here as well as Ford and Dodge did too, not sure if they still do, I see some experimental cars going up and down the mountains between here and Payson also Flagstaff.
newmann
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3/28/2014 11:56am
Anytime I fly west I'm glued to the window. There are a number of interesting sites seen from above. Figured they were test tracks for someone.
BobbyM
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3/28/2014 12:11pm
those are crop circles with no known origin..very strange indeed.

CIA has it under lock and key at this time.
BobbyM
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3/28/2014 12:12pm
Agent717 wrote:
My house is on what used to be those empty lots across the street from that building.
no shit? right down the road from me.

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