VLVL2 (15): The Ultimate Four-Wheeling Rig

[umberto rossi]

In data 4 May 2004, verso le 15:32, pynchonoid si trovò a scrivere su 
VLVL2 (15): The Ultimate Four-Wheeling Rig :

> Lamborghini

Hmm... looks like another occurrence of the preterite. When it comes 
to dreams car, Italy had two factories in the 60s, Ferrari and 
Lamborghini. The horse and the bull. They were both prestigious, and 
I remember having scale models of both cars, though the Lamborghini 
were more appealing to my childish imagination because of their 
names, Countach, Espada, Miura, etc. while Ferraris had those aseptic 
numbers, you know. Then in the 80s FIAT bought Ferrari (in the 80s 
FIAT bought *all* Italian car companies, Innocenti, Autobianchi, 
Lancia, Alfa Romeo, etc. and later destroyed almost everything), and 
Ferrari became the only dream car anybody talked about, also because 
of Formula One. Lamborghini was almost forgotten, though they still 
produced and still produce sport cars which are neither worse nor 
better than the Maranello UFOs. Quoting the Lamborghini is a bit like 
putting the Mendoza 9mm in the picture, or, on a bigger scale, the 
Dutch obsession.

umberto rossi
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