Posted on 03/13/2019 4:59:29 AM PDT by vannrox
OMG I work in the near the city one of our major interstates i-684, I now see every morning two different Bentleys....
How rich are you to commute in a Bentley?
They are beautiful I think its a treat.
This other car ugh...
I’ve seen more bald eagles in the wild than I’ve seen a Bentley.
“”In Soviet times that high-end vehicle was called a Zil.
Members of the Politburo did not want them, preferring instead to be chauffeured around in German-built Opals.
We had them bugged for several years in what was probably the CIA’s most successful operation.””
In fact Opel didn’t produce anything close to Zil and Politburo never used it.
Your story is based around military liason missions in Germany with Soviet and NATO military intelligence allowed to tour parts of Germany occupied by opposite side. Traditionally the Soviets used M24 Volga sedans for their missions and for that reason couldn’t really mix with traffic in West Germany with US counter intelligence following them all time. To negotiate the problem they ordered four Opel sedans and these were bugged by CIA prior to delivery to know their whereabouts. In fact it did not take long for the Soviets to find the bugs.
the second promotion was as a limousine. Putin et al are tired of being seen in Mercedes and Cadillac limousines
Maduro, Assad and the Castro’s can be sold a vehicle that doesn’t really need to be reliable when it is shown on the TV stage
When I was in school, one of my housemates called the Rolls Royce dealer and asked about their cars. He noted a specific model. They drove one 100 miles to our house to take him for a try out ride.
“” “” OMG I work in the near the city one of our major interstates i-684, I now see every morning two different Bentleys....
How rich are you to commute in a Bentley?
They are beautiful I think its a treat.
This other car ugh...”” “”
I drove a 2005 Continental GT for a month in summer 2014. They depreciate like a stock market crash and used ones aren’t really expensive.
Saudis who test drove Aurus loved it much. About one in ten orders is theirs. I think they would have dealership in Arabia.
You beat me to the punch - yes, a Rolls knock off.
Keep in mind that the country outside of Russia with the largest Russian spy network is the U.K.
It was not by accident that the “Russian Collusion” hoax ran through the U.K.
Well the truth is that RR is owned by VW and uses VW-designed engines. Then again so is the Bugatti Veyron.
Yes, but as far as I know the Rolls Royce engineering and design teams, owned by VW or not, are still U.K. based. If, as we suspect, the Russians made a knock off of the Rolls, it would have been from engineering and design info they hacked in the U.K., not in Wolfsburg.
Mechanically it has nothing in common with RR. It is an AWD hybrid to start with.
[I hope they didn’t ask Lucas for help on the electrics.]
Yes, as a former Jaguar owner. My family also had another Jag, an MG and a Triumph.
She was MY mail-order bride!
“Aurus Senat”
Jerry’s stand-up: I like the names they have for cars. Like, no baron has ever owned a LeBaron. Or the Ford LTD. “LTD.” Limited. It’s a “limited” edition...what did they make, fifty million of those? “Yes, it’s ‘limited’ to the number we can sell.” Or when they try and mangle a positive word into a car name, you know how they’ll do that? The “Integra.” Oh, integrity? No, Integra. The “Supra.” Or the “Impreza.” Yeah? Well, I hope it’s not a “lemona”...or you’ll be hearing from my “lawya.”
All True. Still, no matter who owns therm or where they’re made, this Russian sloge still looks like an almost direct copy.
“I’m waiting for India’s Tata cars to be available here. I’ll get one and get some stick-on letters, and put ‘bodacious’ on it.”
If you can’t wait, buy a Mahindra Tractor!
“Maybe it is me but I keep seeing the name as ANUS.”
You beat me to it. I got the same “subliminal message!”
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