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ICONS OF OUR TIME

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NAME: The 4-Wheel Pose Jeep.

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NATIONALITY: Japanese.

AGE: Straight out of the showroom.

MONEY: Loads. A two-year-old model was advertised for $130,000 in last week's paper.

IDENTIFYING MARKS: Spare tyre wrapped in a condom with a picture of a rhino on it; amah-cleaned, whiter-than-white soft top; giant bull/kangaroo bars to prevent road-kill pedestrians from damaging the paint work; silly, go-faster stickers.

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NATURAL HABITAT: Central, Pacific Place or cruising the narrow alleys around Times Square trying to find the way into the car park. Occasional forays up to The Peak to test the four-wheel drive.

DRIVERS: Any yuppie type with creative leanings. You know, the slightly over-long hair, parted in the middle, the teeny-weeny sunglasses, the Camel advert wardrobe, the Maxwell House coffee advert apartment. Perhaps it was that dinky Mazda bubble last year and the convertible Saab befroe that. This person's idol is singer-actor George Lam, and he's certainly driven a Jeep or two in his movies.

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