Flutterby™! : San Francisco Auto Show

Went to the San Francisco Auto Show with Phil, Ken and Ruby today. Rather a bust. I think I took this blurry picture because I liked the design, but aside from the Shelby tribute, which had the car to the left, "Dragon Smoke", CSX2357 owned by Janet and Drew Serb, most of it was about cars to make fun of. Too many cars which came with high spoilers that suggested that a shag carpeted dashboard should not be an option.

When we walked by this display, Ruby broke out in "Don't cry for me, Argentina". I wondered why anyone would want to advertise themselves as an assasination target. The car that says "someone wants me dead".

Land Rover had their small little thing that looked like a Honda CRV clone. Mitsubishi or Daihatsu or somesuch had something that looked like what might happen if Hummer had a H¹/₂. Mercedes had that yellow convertible that screamed "I'm a lawyer with size issues". Ford, I mean, kinda, Jaguar had various Taurus incarnations. Mitsubishi and Nissan had vehicles that had garish colors and those over-populated stereo displays, even playing music with that heavy bass; the only thing missing was the neon light around the base.

I didn't get the right angle on this one, but the new Thunderbird is... well... pretty fly for a 2003 model. It was missing the funk with the wawa pedal, but I'm sure that was just because nobody cared because... well...

Because the show was basically just a large showroom with less annoying salesweasels following us around. For my $7 I wanted hype! I wanted flash! I wanted concept cars and half-naked babes!

Oh well.