A few numbers to ponder:

During the oil boom, exotics were actually a pretty common sight in Calgary, though seeing a Mercedes SLR in the wild was pretty neat, but the one that really made me do a double take was a ‘60s vintage Hillman Avenger, because you just do not see vanilla British cars of that vintage, anymore.

As it stands right now, it’s not like he has a choice, unless the Democrats win the runoff elections.

Funny how nobody had a problem with Doctor Henry Kissenger.

Just a thought. Does it really matter whether it looks environmentally friendly, so long as it actually is?

Geekycop is right. When the Taurus first came out, the rest of Detroit was still doing rectangles, so it looked like something out of the future, and for a while it was the default futurecar for filmmakers on a budget.

And a pretty low budget take at that. It wouldn’t look out of place in some cheesy Mad Max knockoff. The name even fits.

If clean airflow is your goal, wouldn’t it actually make more sense to mount the wing by the ends?

To be fair, a lot of fathers wouldn’t make good presidents either.

It’s a little scary that this is what passes for “young blood” in American politics, but it’s a start.

He’d also look like Lex Luthor.

He’d also look like Lex Luthor.

Exactly. Most of the argumetns against the Hummer seem to revolve around it not “looking” environmentally friendly, as if striking an eco friendly pose was the most important part of the exercise.

Back in the 15th century, the Pope divied up the New World between Spain and Portugal. Obviously, it didn’t stay that way.

I don’t know, people seem to get pretty crazy without it too.

There are no Martians to subjugate, now a Martian culture. Really, if you really have to get your inner Cecil Rhodes out of your system to do it on a sterile rock millions of miles from the rest of us.

Or deploy a super high tech motorbike out the back?

My first impression was that it was just the thing for some ‘80s TV hero as he travels the highways, fighting crime from his mobile lair in some unholy fusion of Knight Rider and the Highwayman.

Exactly! It’s that critical difference between showing off your environment awareness, and actually doing something.

I actually think it’s kind of brilliant.