Kim Jong-il’s last ride was in a 1976 Lincoln hearse

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For a dictator whose country has never been on particularly rosy terms with the United States, North Korea’s recently departed Dear Leader was allotted a rather peculiar hearse after a life of Mercedes-Benz fetish. That's totally an old black Lincoln.

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Kim Jong-il, one of mankind’s most prolific mass murderers, was carried off to his grave in a fifth generation Lincoln Continental, flanked on all sides by military trucks and followed by a fleet of his dear Mercedes-Benz cars. Walking next to the Lincoln, sporting his modified Hitlerjugend haircut, was Kim’s son and successor Kim Jong-un, who, like his father used to, likes to look at things.