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The price was all wrong for one contestant on "The Price Is Right," who claims the TV game show and its authorized auto dealership tried to pass off a rehabilitated wreck as a new car she won.

Donna Tillman said she won the 2004 Pontiac GTO Coupe during her June 28, 2004, appearance on the game show. But she was told after she paid the taxes and license fees that the vehicle that appeared on the stage had mechanical problems, according to a lawsuit filed on Thursday in Los Angeles.

When the car was delivered about eight weeks later, it was not the model that had been displayed on the show and it had more miles on the odometer than the car she had been promised.

Several months later when Tillman took her prize for a service at a dealership in her hometown of Puyallup, Washington, she learned the car had major damage to its frame that had been repaired and concealed, the lawsuit said.

Tom George, the owner of Pontiac dealership Thorson Motor Center, said Tillman received "a brand new car" and only claimed it had been previously damaged after she wrecked it herself.

"There is no record of it being in a wreck," George said.

A spokesman for Tillman said her minor fender bender led to discovery of the previous damage.

"It had been reconstructed underneath to look like a new vehicle but it was not," said law firm spokesman Geoff Dulebohn. "What is clear is that she did not receive a new car."

A spokeswoman for "The Price Is Right" had no comment.

"The Price is Right," which airs on the CBS television network, ranks as America’s longest-running game show and was hosted for 35 years by Bob Barker.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071215/en_nm/price_dc

That must be suck, but at least it’s a free car!

The largest Indoor Snow Park of the World opened in Dubai

Built on what was previously desert sand, the slopes will be covered with manufactured snow all year round. The area under snow is the equivalent of three football pitches, with runs built inside a giant, slanting metal tube around 25 floors high.

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The centre has green, blue, red and black runs, chairlifts and snow patrols, like any other ski resort. The $272 million resort is the latest project in the Emirate, which is seeking to be a major tourism hub. The man-made ski resort with three times the size of football field will have snow all year around. "Snow in the desert is such a unique experience for locals who have never seen snow," said Ski Dubai’s chief executive, Phil Taylor.

Ski Dubai has to cope with an average outside winter temperatures of 25C and summer temperatures soaring above 40C. The temperature inside is maintained at -1 or -2C.

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