Are we ready for another Monster? The new Rolls-Royce Phantom looks like a cartoon version of a car. One that could push any silly hummer off a cliff without breaking into the sest sweat. Will this cute cartoon look inspire new generations of children (future designers) to draw cars differently? The Rolls-Royce Motor Cars site will go live tomorrow. I wonder if it will be as much fun to explore as the Maybach site.
It would be fun to see the three cars above as transformers in a street fight. The hummer would have a heavy American accent, be aggressive, dressed in day-glow yellow camouflage clothes and hold on to a half empty oil barrel. The Maybach would speak softly and have a more than a 100 year old fighting style, while the Rolls-Royce would pretend really hard to be an english gentleman, but the leder-hosen and the heavy Bavarian accent would give it away as a pure bread German muscle-boy. (Who can not be injured in any way and has a ton of movies to prove it.)
And on the sidelines would be the old Rolls-Royce brother Bentley, with a huge VW (Very Wicked) gold collar attached to a leash, attached to his new foster parents in Wolfsburg. (Wolf-Castle.)
Ooo Yeah! (I am such a boy.)
is this Streetfighting Week here at WitoldRiedel.com? ;)
Posted by: shauny on January 6, 2003 06:30 AMI'd like to think my Buick would hear about the fight from its friends at the retirement home, and show up. It would point out, "Hey, I'm hip, I'm cool.. I'm a 'Gran Sport'". But after a few valiant swings (and misses), it would peter out and die, it's last words being: "Check Engine Soon".
Posted by: Jim on January 6, 2003 09:25 AMWhich one was the car that would explode on contact? I think it would also make a wicked little fighter.
Was it the Pinto? (I have no idea.)
The only car I take every day is one of the cars on the 1/9 train. Can you imagine a New York City subway getting into the fight? Jumpin’ the tracks. Goin’ express!
yes, that's the pinto. we just saw one on the highway in mexico. i kept about 50 feet back from it, then passed very carefully. i wanted no trouble. they also have giant mercedes buses there that look like they could take almost anything off the road without receiving more than a ding in the bumper. they look like something out of mad max. although: i think even they may creep around the pinto with due respect.
Posted by: Rob on January 6, 2003 04:59 PMwell, I actually “met” a girlfriend in a car accident in 1989. I was pulling out from a parking area in front of the Hanau police station on a foggy day and just did not pay enough attention. I hit her car hard. Her’s was a Reanult 5, mine was a mercedes 200/8. The entire side of her car was pushed in. There was not even a scratch on my /8. A police car drove by while we were standing there, looking at the damadge and one of the policemen just leaned out to me and said: “Hey, you can not park here.”
My 200/8 was a sturdy piece of steel.