Re: Russian fat cats

[gene <gene@insti.physics.sunysb.edu>]

It's funny that Reuters story had the luxury cars mentioned in the 
following non-trivial order: MB, Audi, BMW. 

Not sure about Russian politicians, but self-respecting mobsters in
Moscow drive only MB 600SL. :-)  Those who don't want to attract 
attention drive a performance version on the enfamous Volga sedan:
it's indistinguishable from the outside, but has a turbo V8 instead 
of the old wimpy 98hp 4L.  Let's wait for 4wd V8 Russian sleepers!

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Psychotic Don't-you-dare-tickle-me Elmo <honge@creighton.edu> wrote on Wed, Apr 02, 1997 at 09:47:44PM -0600:
> I just watched my local Fox network news reporting on the cars Russian
> politicans drive. Bunch of MB, Volvo, and Audis (huh? No BMW??). As far as
> Audis go, they're just bunch of brand-new A6s and A8s. Too bad that the
> Russian government has (as far as the report went) promised any future
> cars will be limited to Russian-built, uh, things.