By Justin Berkowitz
May 9, 2008 -
We've all heard the stats. Flying is safer than driving. Bicycling is safer than driving. Swimming with sharks with lasers on their heads is safer than driving. And despite Volvo's claims of an ultrasafe, fatality-free car in the next ten years, cars are destined to remain killers. You can't argue with physics. And there's always the human element: we're fallible. Not to conclude that cars will kill us all, but the risk is out there. Real hardcore motorcycle riders say to "ride the bike you want to die on." Which brings us to the question of the day: if you could know it was going to be your last drive, what would it be in? My choice is a classic 12 cylinder Ferrari, like the 275 GTB. The magnificent sound of the engine is what I'd want to hear if I was on my way out. As the Simpsons' Sideshow Bob once averred, "I shall send you to heaven before I send you to Hell."
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May 9th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
How about a Bricklin. That’d be ironic.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
If you watch the beginning of the original “The Italian Job” that’s the car/way I’d like to go.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
I’m with improvement_needed, I hope to die rich fat and happy in a 2075 CyberLexus LS6000r (the r stands for rocket car)
May 9th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
This would be my ride of death.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si0fIW2iIug&feature=related
May 9th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Laser! Laser! LASER!
May 9th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
If Michael McDowel can hit a wall almost headon at 195 mph and walk (okay, limp) away, why must we die in a 60 mph (less than 1/3 the speed Michael was going) fender bender? Could someone please explain that for me?
May 9th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
I’d like to go in a Chrysler Sebring, just so there’s one less of those pieces of crap on the road.
May 9th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
My 97 jeep wrangler on a very steep cliff.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
KatiePuckrik -
1970 Jaguar E-Type convertible.
I’m with you. There’s no better car in which to meet St. Peter than the E-type Jag.
I’d chose the Series 3, starting in ‘73 though, for the sake of the V-12.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Ah, yes, Rendezvous. Lelouche must have been the horniest Frenchman in France. Did you know that le louche is the manure scoop? How differently we’d remember him if the headlines read, “Speeding film director making film with his Ferrari kills entire family of 11.” Bastard.