With President Barack Obama showing the ailing U.S. auto industry some tough love Monday, POLITICO wondered — what’s …
… in the driveways of White House aides? A lot of foreign cars, as it turns out.
Explore the depths of auto-psychoanalysis, after the jump.
Who’s driving what? [Politico]
Fuck the Politico.
Too for, didn’t win.
With the exception of the Big O and Timmay, what a bunch of crap cars.
Why the f*ck does Larry Summers have a mid-90′s Mazda? Also, don’t most of these people make like $150-200k/year? Why the hell are they all driving like $25-$30k mediocre-at-best whips?
Poss cus few of them ever have to actually drive themselves?
the cars make sense. even if they are making 150k/year, that isn’t much, especially when you’re that old, live in a big city, and likely have a wife, kids, and possibly and ex-wife.
Who are these men?
Lawrence is my new fuckin hero if he has a driver to chauffeur him around in that POS ’95 protege.
Cmon, clearly the Protege is for the maid.
Nice ride Rahm… Clearly didn’t save any coin from his days on the street
i’m kind of surprised you guys are calling them out on their shit-rides
if they were balling in SL’s and new 7-series I’m sure there would be a lot of moral indignation and anger at the perceived corruption and class disconnect
and what’s with the skidmarks? does she drive a pair of huggies?
Another one from the master of cheap shots.
Orzag has Honda and Volvo written all over his face. Could’ve guessed that one.
I clearly didn’t expect “do as I say, not as I do” from the we are the change we’ve been waiting for team. My coerced dues were not well spent.
- UAW Jobs Bank
@10 These aren’t your typical economy cars (see: newer model Ford Escape hybrid, Prius), these are really shitty cars for the most part. There’s some middle ground between a $5,000 ’00 Buick Regal and a $80,000 ’09 BMW…if these guys really drive these cars it screams CAREER POLITICIAN aka loser @ life aka.
I hope the specific cars listed were cherry picked from the multiple cars actually registered to these guys.
Who needs a cool car when the tax payers pay for your driver? No way in hell those guys actually drive those pieces of shit.
I bet they drink foreign grown coffee too.
I guess many people still do not get how scary it is that people who very evidently know so little about cars are going to run the biggest car companies in the world.
Well, then again – their idea of cars is electric powered golf cars puttering around the city. I guess they will run the company appropriately. Middle America better start fucking and producing large litters pretty soon else the ghettos will take them over in this majoritarian democracy pretty soon!
@17
the image of middle america fucking makes me want to throw up and i think looking at my throw up would be easier on the eyes
Summers worked at DE Shaw no way he has ever touched a Mazda, I doubt he even realizes he owns that car
One of the principals at a fund I used to work for drove a ’00 Saturn to work everyday…
When he had us over his MANSION for a holiday party later that year, there was a Maserati, Lotus and an older Ferrari (I forget what model) in the garage with the doors up. I remember this vividly b/c as soon as I saw that, I said to myself, “my f*%cking bonus better be off the charts this year…”
What these politicos actually DRIVE to work doesn’t mean squat…