<![CDATA[Jalopnik: Maybach Landaulet]]> http://cache.jalopnik.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jalopnik.com.png <![CDATA[Jalopnik: Maybach Landaulet]]> http://jalopnik.com/tag/maybach landaulet http://jalopnik.com/tag/maybach landaulet <![CDATA[Maybach 62S Landaulet: Buy It Now On EBay For Just $2.2 Million]]> Yes, the Maybach 62S Landaulet is obnoxiously luxurious. With that rollback canvas roof, it offers conspicuous consumption on a Citigroup-like level, but $2.2 million as a "Buy it now" eBay price is a bit steep. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5141293&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Maybach 62 Landaulet Goes Into Production Because We Said It Wouldn't]]> There's a great moment in All The President's Men (and repeated in the autobiography A Good Life) where Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee explains how he was the reason for J. Edgar Hoover not getting canned by LBJ:
Once when I was reporting, Lyndon Johnson's top guy gave me the word they were looking for a successor to J. Edgar Hoover. I wrote it and the day it appeared Johnson called a press conference and appointed Hoover head of the FBI for life... And when he was done, he turned to his top guy and the President said, "Call Ben Bradlee and tell him fuck you."
What does this have to do with the Maybach 62 Landaulet going into production? Everything. More »
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