Car vs train across the United States
A modern, decidedly Top Gear homage to the great Blue Train races: a head-to-head between Amtrak and a Bentley Continental...
Posted: 19 Dec 2012
Fort Morgan, Colorado, is only six miles away. Chicken arms and much waving, sudden rush of adrenaline. The sun is up, and the Bentleys have gathered some attention, which I try to gently shoo away. "Which one do you like, son?" asks an elderly gentleman peering out from beneath a mighty Stetson, too-perfect teeth clicking slightly like rows of white porcelain corn. "The red one," I say, without hesitation. "It sounds better, is nearly as fast and does about 140 miles more to a tank of fuel."
"Son," says the old-timer, looking at me with something akin to pity. "You don't buy a two hunnerd thousan' dollar car like that, eat in McDonald's and complain about the price of gas."