Absurd but Beautiful...
I just started to watch a YouTube entitled "10 Amazing Italian Cars You Probably Never Heard Of..." and whilst I profess a guilty pleasure in automotive extravagance (even though I could never afford anything remotely extravagant in the car department), which is tempered by an environmental awareness that we are in the dying days of the internal combustion engine, as nice as they can sound.
The absurdity is that the vehicles portrayed in this little video will almost never be used as intended by the host of talent that gave fruition to them. They will languish in air-conditioned 'garages', accumulating 'value' for their stupidly-rich owners and barely driven past show-room miles before being traded on or simply mothballed in a 'collection'. Travesty. Pointless. Absurd.
Revving a V12 whilst tarting around the coach turn of a country house is not driving, it's just posing because you can - yet another sign that shitloads of money don't buy you talent or the balls to actually go for it in a machine that would undoubtedly kill anyone lacking the talent and experience to actually drive the thing at more than four miles an hour. I hate to see pointless extravagance like this, on so many levels... By the way, I think that the Maserati Alfieri concept car (2014) pictured, and featured in the video, is a actually a work of art...
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