I can’t help but wonder what exactly is happening in the motoring industry when a white mini-van donning carbon fibre appendages describable as nothing less than “wings” is an accepted feature in the modern day. Let me give you an example of what I mean…
There are several of these vans that roam the streets in my local area (gaudy paint job not included (to their extreme credit)), and I’ve never quite understood the appeal. Of course there’s a certain “peacockishness” about dipping your vehicle into the backstreet plasma of “WTF”, but this seems a step too far for me.
Fun vs practicality is a fairly geriatric argument to start, but I can’t be alone in thinking that these things are a touch too much? Lady Gaga is a certified board member of the attention seekers union, but even she covers her own bases by being ridiculous in a semi-reasonable way. She may well be wearing coke cans as hair ties or dressing down in a one-day-use bacon suit, but she’s got the money to waste bacon (*shake fist*), infact she’s earning a living from doing so – sparking debates about the insinuations she’s making with such “artistic statements”.
As fascinating as the depth of thought that goes into such dramatic movements in Ms Gaga is, you can’t fault her mindset compared to whoever’s responsible for this machine. You won’t catch her bleeding money on petrol for every mile that she’s driving around with added weight and greater drag on her ridiculous-mobile!
The likelihood is that most people will roll their eyes and shake their heads when something like this rolls along the high street. Maybe you could getaway with it in a competition or during a meetup of some kind, but it’s not going to get the sort of interpretations you might imagine as the driver. There again – the driver of this vehicle is probably living slightly altered version of reality as it is.
Can you imagine this being the staple diet when you’re looking for vans for sale in a down town dealership? Yes, I’ll take the leather interior, chrome fixtures and a 7 foot narwhal horn, please!
Tut, tut.
