By Colby Buchanan
I know Lamborghinis are often considered spaceships on the road but I don’t think it was meant to be taken so literally. When I saw this on Twiter I tried so hard to find a reason as to why. Like who was it at the social media meeting that suggested that they do a photoshoot with a guy in a white Morphsuit and call it an alien. At the very least they could’ve used the actual alien one.
I also just don’t get why it was written this way. “The Huracán EVO is the spaceship aliens use,” really? I think I have to assume that again it’s because people make the connection between the car and its technical aerodynamics. Also why Abruzzo? This post is so cryptic that it must have some hidden message for us. Either way, it was definitely a weird thing to see first thing in the morning. What do you think about it?
Exploring Abruzzo with Valentina Sommariva, Huracán EVO Spyder is the spaceship that aliens use to interact with the environment, revealing the relationship between space and earth.#Lamborghini #HuracanEVOSpyder #EveryDayAmplified #WithItalyForItaly #Abruzzo pic.twitter.com/E0sTNSBPjX
— Lamborghini (@Lamborghini) October 2, 2020
Jeff Glucker
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Driven mad from years of inhaling marker fumes, the Greendale Human Being embezzled the college’s savings, flush with recently collected tuition, and departed Colorado for somewhere with less paintball battles.
Apparently the Huracán EVO Spyder is also the spaceship aliens use to cop a squat behind.
Must have had a bit too much of the ol’ Intergalactic Laxative
We had the weirdest car sale experience yesterday. As the Camry failed its tech inspection spectacularily, and the potential repair bill was, again, above the value of the car, we decided to sell:
https://www.finn.no/car/used/ad.html?finnkode=194098127
The first call came about five seconds (!) after I hit the “publish”-button. Then almost 30 more calls from people talking broken English and Norwegian in the first four minutes until I took the ad down again; I couldn’t take them all, of course. Second caller ready to pay more money than I had agreed on with the first guy, sight unseen.
But the first guy got it. After 15 years in my wife’s family, this trusty, but totally used up Camry is going to Nigeria.
Camry is the new Peugeot 504?
They built the 504 in Kenya until 2004, Sjalabais’ car is from 2001 – so, yes!
one “3”, which usually means “you are not taking the car home tonight”… selling it into a second youth is a good thing.
Yeah, the rear axle was held in place by one surviving bolt. Incredibly, I didn’t notice that much on the smooth main road I take from my house to work. It just felt like the exhaust was dinging up on the car’s underside…scary.
Ii had a neighbor who was in the business of exporting used car parts to Nigeria. Your definition of “totally used up” is most certainly at a different standard than a Nigerian’s.
Not doubting that at all. He was very clear that what he needed was a good motor and a good trans, everything else didn’t matter. Which was good, because everything else was really quite worn. Nice car inside though, still. A funny anecdote is how he quoted shipping to be 4500 NOK to Hamburg, from there 4000 to Nigeria, “and then it should be 10000 in toll upon arrival – but nobody is paying that”, with the brightest smile. Dysfunctional, probably, but good for him.
My neighbor hardly ever shipped complete cars, due to the shipping cost–they took up too much volume in the shipping container and had a different import duty classification. The ones he did ship intact were usually very depreciated Lexuses that he would buy here for next to nothing and then his colleagues would sell at the premium commanded in Nigeria by the brand name. I do remember him buying a Mitsubishi pickup, cutting it in half, and loading the front half into the bed in order to better utilize the container’s volume and bring it into Nigeria as “parts”. I should have asked for pictures of it welded back together.
My reference of the 504 was that about 25 years ago there were guys who would buy any car available, and they would cut the roof off to fit more in a container.
He definitely bought every Peugeot available within a 75-mile radius. This was more than a decade after the brand abandoned the US market, and the average selling price of anything other than a Garage Queen was about $500. But the used parts were worth more than the car. He had a small crew of guys he would pay $200/car to strip everything that could be unbolted, then the chassis would go to the scrapyard. Most of the crew worked day jobs as cabbies or hot shots, and so they were always scouting neighborhoods after dropping off the package or fare.
Honestly, sounds like a great way to make some extra money. And I love that good cars earn the right to survive – in some form or another. Old Hiluxes and Hiaces go down the same road.
The free(tm) scooter starts! Still a little bit to do though: a small but ignoble coolant leak in the tubing needs fixing, the mandatory mirrors are missing, and it dies when I rip open the throttle (ok when I open slowly, so it’s the sudden pressure drop that makes it meager out). Ah, and I’m still lacking ownership…
Maybe it’s just me, but Lamborghinis and their image seem far too loud, brash, and badass for this approach to…marketing? I guess? Either way, as I read that modern-art-gallery description I can’t help but imagine the Huracan saying the Italian equivalent of “whatever, nerd” before peeling out in a cloud of tire smoke and V10 howl.
Probably confused it for a Ferrari. Or a Buick?