http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=596
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/7/shadesoftarzan.php
*Makes one wonder if there is a "Brazilian Torino" somewhere.
There was a Soviet Torino, "Togliatti"...
http://www.expat.ru/forum/togliatti/100772-togliatti.html
"In the summer of 2005 I told my students in Samara that I was being temporarily transferred to the school's branch in Togliatti (Тольятти; pronounced Tol'yatti), which is a lot closer to Samara as the crow flies than as the bus moves. Their response was unanimously disapproving: Togliatti, they said, is an ugly, dirty city populated by mafiosis and drug addicts, and my fate would be limited to the choice of being murdered by mobs of demented crack and heroin addicts running amok in the city centre in broad daylight or getting caught in crossfire between warring gangsters blasting away indiscriminately with tommy guns from the windows of their reinforced limousines.
"Well, I survived to tell the story, such as it is...."
*Oh wait, OF COURSE there's a Brazilian Torino. It's Betim in Minas Gerais.
They make green alcohol-fueled Fiat cars and they're doing great.
http://www.hoovers.com/fiat-automóveis/–ID__95021–/freeuk-co-factsheet.xhtml
*"Ford wasn't about to let the British get the best of him, so..."
