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Wednesday
Aug242011

EA Sports Special: The Great Ex-Dictators Drag Race --- Ben Ali's Ferrari v. Qaddafi's Tok Tok

Yesterday, in one of the more surreal moments of the fall of Muammar Qaddafi's compound, insurgents "liberated" the former leader's tok tok --- the combination of vehicle, similar to a golf cart, and setting for one of his speeches in the days after the start of the uprising:

That got us thinking: how fast could a liberated tok tok go? Could it take on Hitler's radio car, for example? Or Stalin's ZIS-115?

And then we remembered a more recent and pertinent example. In January, we reported on the another Arab Spring vehicle liberation --- former Tunisian President Ben Ali's car had been freed by a forklift:

So let's do this: Tok Tok v. Ferrari in a Great Ex-Dictators Drag Race. And maybe we don't have stop there: what about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's celebrated Peugeot 504? Maybe Bashar al-Assad would like to enter his car, unimpeded by the woman protester who tried to ruin his post-speech party at the end of March?

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