To that end, I thought I'd share one of my favorite pieces of car literature... Here's an example:
This V12-powered super dune buggy gets on the list — well, my list anyway — purely because of its appalling clientele. The "Rambo Lambo" was the civilian version of a military vehicle that Lamborghini sold to those beacons of democracy, Saudi Arabia and Libya, among others. The luxurious LM002 appealed to spoiled young Saudi sheiks wanting to cross the sand to survey their oil field holdings. Uday Hussein, son of Saddam, had one, which the U.S. military cheerfully blew up in 2004 during a "test" to simulate the effects of a car bomb. The LM002 is the forerunner of another large and unnecessary SUV that signals pure contempt for one's fellow man, the Hummer H2. Read on.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1658545_1658533_1658530,00.html#ixzz13evniNth
I thought you wrote that paragraph below the picture, until I followed the link! Sounds like something you might right...are you ghost writing for Time now?
ReplyDeleteYou need to bring back your "timespassenger" blog...the photos/commentary in that were great!