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Posted 6/14/2007 7:41 PM
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Putin's G's

President Putin fixes Russia's traffic congestion, for about an hour...

http://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/14/president-putin-fixes-russias-tr...






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Posted 6/14/2007 10:21 PM
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So I take it hes riding in the stretched S-Class?
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Posted 6/14/2007 10:23 PM
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Well at least someone has good taste in fashion. What can I say, I'm a Zegna whore...
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Posted 6/14/2007 10:33 PM
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Aren't those Gs slightly different than stock Gs? Or I mean the body style is slightly different on the back end. I hear Putin sometimes rides in one of the Gs to foil would-be assasins who think he might be in the S limo.
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Posted 6/14/2007 11:04 PM
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Adoni
I was going to comment on the Zegna banner in Russia, seems like a bit of a paradox. I've always wanted a Zegna white linen suit though....
Probably wouldn't do to drive the G in though

Jonathan
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Posted 6/14/2007 11:33 PM
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Ya, I'm not sure how I'd justify a white linen Zegna suit, I have a pair of tan linen drawstring pants from Zegna. I'll have to think about that one for a bit. But oh would it be slick...
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Posted 6/15/2007 2:05 AM
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gwagen460swb - 6/15/2007 5:33 AM

Aren't those Gs slightly different than stock Gs? Or I mean the body style is slightly different on the back end. I hear Putin sometimes rides in one of the Gs to foil would-be assasins who think he might be in the S limo.


they are. a) they're streched b) they've a sliding rear door. trying to find better photos but here's one
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Posted 6/15/2007 3:52 AM
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c) almost forgot - and of course - they're armoured

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Posted 6/15/2007 3:56 AM
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Wide sidesteps and exterior handles, cool
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I wonder what Stalin would say if he could see all these German machines driving around Moscow?
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Posted 6/15/2007 1:41 PM
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Roch207 - 6/15/2007 7:39 PM

I wonder what Stalin would say if he could see all these German machines driving around Moscow?


Roch207 - 6/15/2007 7:39 PM

I wonder what Stalin would say if he could see all these German machines driving around Moscow?


Why do you think that Stalin didn't loved beautiful cars with quality? and anyway - this doesn't change a thing and pointed3 isn't the right place to start history lessons BUT to be politically correct ... G isn't german car very much (Stalin wasn't russian and Hitler wasnt German )

Well anyway. This russian "GON" was established 101 yrs ago (1906) - so you can only imagine what kind of rarities they might have.

here's one babelfish rough translation from webpage of them:

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=ru_en...

also: http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/articles/atributesEng13.shtml


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Posted 6/16/2007 5:32 PM
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That pic is almost identical to a street in Bucharest, eventualy all that banner advertising will be banned like in the rest ov EU.
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Posted 6/17/2007 11:57 AM
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roughneck - 6/17/2007 12:32 AM

eventualy all that banner advertising will be banned like in the rest ov EU. :)


huh? when?
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Posted 6/17/2007 3:59 PM
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trc - 6/17/2007 4:57 PM

roughneck - 6/17/2007 12:32 AM

eventualy all that banner advertising will be banned like in the rest ov EU. :)


huh? when?


When the busy bodies start to interfere and the health and saftey industry gets going the cables strung randomly from buildings too that will all get cleaned up, of course there will be huge grants from the EU to do it.



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