Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Communism, has it ever built a good car?

The confluence of two of my favorite subjects, international politics and cars, remains rare.  So today I was excited to see the parade of limos in the DPRK carrying Kim Jong-Il to his burial.  Anticipating that these were rare and well preserved Soviet-era limos, I set out to identify them, but a more astute car observer had already determined that these were in fact 1975 Lincoln Continentals!  More here:  http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/2011/12/kim-jong-il-funeral-limos-epitome-of.html



I'm annoyed by this, and hold out hope that these were knock-offs produced along-side supernotes in a bunker buried high in the mountains.  The hardcore DPRK watchers can read some kind of symbolism into this, but for me it's an excuse to post a classic clip of Top Gear where Jeremy and James ask the question; 'communism, has it ever built a good car?'
http://www.topgear.com/uk/videos/communist-cars-1

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