On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:42 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 04:04:54PM -0700, Larry Colen wrote: >> >> I will note that at one point the Chevy Suburban had the "richest >> demographic" of any production car, because it was the most >> comfortable vehicle that would tow a horse trailer. > > I'd take that with a very large dose of salt - I'd bet the demographics > for Bentley or Rolls-Royce (or, come to that, Ferrari or Lamborghini) > comfortably exceed that of the Suburban. > > The other claim is suspect, too - having ridden in both, I'd say the > Range Rover beats a Suburban hands down when it comes to comfort, and > can tow even a large horse trailer quite easily. > > Nowadays, of course, I'm pretty sure the "richest demographic" tag > belongs to Bugatti. Someone I know has just picked up a Veyron to > go along with his Lamborghini, Ferrari F360, Viper, ... I'm trying > to persuade him I should have an afternoon with the cars to try for > a few nice photographs (and see which ones he'd be prepared to let > me drive :-) I wonder if he's got a Tesla in the collection too ... >
Doubtful that Bugatti owns the richest demographic. The 'Burb is beloved of oilmen and farmers. Most of whom are millionaires at least on paper. That's the real reason why its got the richest demographic, not horse fans or similar. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
