Gumball organizers to world: “I will see your Global Economic Downturn and raise you one gold-plated Bugatti!”
by Dan Reitman Posted in AutomotiveHola amigos, this is Dan R, friend of NorthGeek and unabashed car geek.
It’s that time of the year again, when dandy aristocrats, supermodels, motocross stars, and maybe even your orthodontist descend with their ultra-whips on a random city for the start of the annual Gumball 3000 Rally. After last year’s tragic accident in Macedonia, and with the economy wallowing in what leading economists have termed “a turd basket,” one would think there would be little public appetite for the Gumball’s notorious celebrations of spirited and sometimes reckless excess.
Or maybe displays of spirited excess are exactly what we need right now. I, for one, am tired of reading about layoffs, housing foreclosures, and Big 3 bankruptcies. Let us instead read about, say, a cop in Kansas pulling over a diamond-studded, Viagra-liveried McLaren SLR, caught doing 180mph, maybe driven by an aging Swedish heir to a candy fortune and maybe co-piloted by an enthusiastic Miss November 2004. Teamwork, after all, is important in all motorsports.
One Response to “Gumball organizers to world: “I will see your Global Economic Downturn and raise you one gold-plated Bugatti!””
By Victor on May 5, 2009
Hear hear. Enough of this endless downturn talk. Let’s go for a drive up the PCH in my Enzo. I mean your Enzo.