faboo mama

So you have an extra $495,000 laying around and you’re wondering what you can do with it. Well, why not buy a base model SLR? The 2009 SLR McLaren Roadster says, “I have money and you so don’t.” It is the ultimate in sportscar driving with a top speed of 206 mph, it goes from 0 - 60 in 3.8 seconds.  I spoke to a police officer today who said, “What’s the point of buying a roadster if you’re not going to speed? Just to let me catch you.”

Mercedes-Benz SLR

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Mazda Super Spy car, originally uploaded by fabooj.

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Last night, I was flipping through my flickr photos and noticed that a picture of a Chevy got like 176 views, going up to 206 views 10 min. later. Someone must have linked to my photo. This pic at the time, had 87 views.

I was looking at the photos again right now and noticed that this photo had 1,232 views (it went up, when I decided to blog it).

Volvo had some pretty interesting concept cars. This car was pretty neat:

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The funniest thing about this car was the reactions of the 4 - 12 year old crowd. The double takes and the agape mouths were pure comedy.

We went yesterday mainly because the little boy likes cars. I knew he’d get a kick out of All Those Cars, so we got going. First off, let me just say for convention planners and the sort, don’t ever pick the LA Convention Center for anything. They hate people. Parking has always sucked and has only gotten worse over the years. Do you realize that when we left around 1pm, there was a line of cars around two blocks, yet the parking structure we had parked in in the morning had been closed up and was at half capacity. In fact, I highly suggest that no one should ever have a convention in Los Angeles unless you’re a complete moron. Then by all means, go for it. The city’s not conducive to conventioneering and we don’t need more idiots who can’t navigate our streets, navigating our streets.

Auto Show. Right. So, we went and Alton loved it. When we got there, he didn’t quite get it. We stumbled into the Overpriced Vehicle closet (The Bentley’s, Astin Martins and whatever else was shoved in there) that was like the Nordstrom of the whole thing. Then we went into the South Hall where a good chunk of the cars were located. For my opinions (you know I had some), on of the cars, you can pick through the photos on flickr. I’m not interested in talking about cars on this blog. I will talk about the economy or politics of the show in general.

This year’s auto show theme was “green cars”. I don’t know if it was the official or unofficial theme, but every single car maker had a their own poseurish “green booth”. What made it laughable was the spiel the barkers hosts had on the midwayfloor when talking about their car. Keep in mind, that only one car won the 2008 Green Car of the Year award, but that didn’t stop the others from talking like their recycled seats were the best thing to every happen to cars. I even heard some of the “hosts” talking about how the entire company is committed to the environment and that even the floor tiles you were standing on were recycled. They’d say this in front of a 20-ton behemoth that gets 3 miles to the gallon.

But I’m not going to complain too much. Even if “green” is the new “organic” and people spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to fake the funk, it will (hopefully) get more people actually thinking about where and how they spend their dollars.