Apparently you’re not a real blog anymore unless you play some part in the giddy rush to strip Tiger Woods of any remaining shred of privacy… so as much as we’d prefer to not escalade the situation, here goes. USA Today reports that the Cadillac Escalade Tiger allegedly drove into a fire hydrant doesn’t belong to him, but is actually owned by General Motors. Huh? Didn’t GM and Tiger part ways just over a year ago? Woods’ contract with GM was originally supposed to expire this year, so perhaps Tiger was due a few perks post-contract because of its early demise. Or, maybe the Escalade was just an old-fashioned celeb loaner. Either way, maybe this will change the conventional wisdom that lending free cars to celebrities is a good decision branding-wise. Especially for firms that are going to have to use taxpayer money to pay someone to buff out those 9-iron marks.
Obligatory comment: Meh!
This answers my question. I was pretty sure if a guy with 1G net-worth was driving a Cadillac, that he must have gotten it for free… Then I was thinking how much the guys at the top of the Ren Cen were sweating hoping the airbags had not malfunctioned…
btw, the sympathy and privacy needs to go to his family, but not to him … afterall, how can one of the most talented, most exposed, most hyped sportsmen in history not expect something like this to blow up eventually when he has multiple women on the side? Best quote so far: “Most have noted the microscope that all celebrities live under; left unsaid was the point that perhaps one ought to remember that microscope doesn’t just focus on good behavior.”
btw, are those blingy wheels factory items?
According to Jalopnik, those are DUB rims.
Those rims are sexy.
But here’s my problem. How did he do that much damage to the car without the airbags depolying?
I’m fairly certain his sponsors aren’t all going to quit him though – after all, how else are they suppossed to keep minorities watching golf?
Is this the real reason why Fritz got canned?
And Tiger was a Buick celebrity. Why wasn’t he driving a Enclave?
You can pick up more babes with a Slade than an Enclave.
iceracer, with a wallet as thick as Tigers, you could drive a Corolla and still have to beat off the hotties with a club…
“Escalade the situation” LOL. Pure class!
And she has a $300 million prenup? Huh? She was a nanny – he couldn’t have got her to sign on the dotted line for $30 million?
She has a $20 million dollar pre-nup if they are married for 10 years. He has just renegotiated it to $60 million if she stays married to him for 2 more years and agrees to a non-disclosure clause (apparantly $60 million is worth more than a tell all book by mrs. woods would be)
Maybe the pain of having to drive that piece of garbage due to a contract finally pushed him over the edge so he crashed it to be relieved of the pain of having it. I know if I was worth what he is worth, I would not be driving a blinged out 4 wheel drive mini-van.
Hey GM! I’d like a free Caddy. And I’ll promise not to smash it up. Added bonus: I don’t play golf so my wife can’t chase me with a golf club.
Please have Fritz deliver it tomorrow.
She has a $20 million dollar pre-nup if they are married for 10 years.
The office gossip was all about the $300 million prenup. Gee, when you can’t trust office gossip what can you trust?
I was looking at a slide show of these photos, and there was an interior shot showing a book lying on the floor near the back seat, where the broken-out window glass had fallen. You can’t see the complete book cover, but I swear it says something like “Cartoon(?) Physics”.
Life is stranger than fiction, it seems…
So the golfer’s Caddy’s is to blame?
>>rimshot<<
Ghetto car, wheels and cause for accident: check, check and check.
Why does Tiger have ghetto rims? What’s up with that? I figured NBA, NFL, rappers, wannabe’s, etc would be riding on DUBS, but not Tiger.
The J. C. Whitney running board matches the O-ring tires. Skinny and black.
No matter how hot she is – and the nanny ain’t all that- somewhere, there’s a guy who is sick of her sh*t.
(I have pre-inserted an asterisk, since apparently unicorn-riding-vestal-virgin-11-year-olds-who-were-raised-Amish are now part of the readership. And we wouldn’t want to offend them.)
Those running boards are power retractables that under normal conditions are tucked under the truck. It absolutely amazes me that even a Tiger Woods post draws anti GM hate here. Astonishing.
GM will patch it up and a dealer sell it to some schmuck saying it was his wife’s personal car. She just drove it to the weekly bridge game.
I can’t begin to imagine what this will go for at Barrett-Jackson (sp?) after it has been restored, or maybe even unrestored…
will probably be featured @ Barrett-Jackson!!!!
A few years from now, that ‘sclade could be bigger than Hitler’s car.
It doesn’t surprise me to read that GM owns it, even though his deal with them supposedly expired. I can tell you that when I worked in that end of the business, the only thing harder than retrieving company cars from celebrities was getting them back from Motor Trend.
It was hard not to comment on this one, so I did. http://www.mystarcollectorcar.com/4-community/letters-to-the-editor/352-blowin-smoketiger-woods-is-familar-with-a-good-driver-its-in-his-golf-bag-.html
I supply the punch line, you supply the joke:
‘The 19th hole!”
Begin…
“What does the tattoo on his mistress’ pelvis say?”
Four doors, four windows. And his wife’s the only person who got a hole in one…
@ Omnifan: take a number. Also, one free Cadillac for you means one less free Cadillac for the vital Mongolian market.
Also, The Fritz has left the building. Apparently, Tiger Woods, too. I’ll be raiding their cubicles for spare pens.
Wrote my senators. This is BS:
Dear Senator:
I am simply amazed this is true: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2009/12/tiger-woods-crash-and-romantic-scandal-has-good-and-bad-news-for-gm/1 Taxpayers, after providing Rick Wagoner with a $10 million retirement, now supply transportation for Tiger Woods. Furthermore, do we even know what Fritz Henderson’s buyout will be? Please do something.
Somewhere, Fuzzy Zoeller is hoisting a cold one and thinking, "This all looks good on you, Tiger…"
A number of professional golfers (and not just the top stars) received vehicles from GM…I’m sure Hollywood stars and other pro athletes did too. This info was current as of three or four years ago…but one would think that this kind of program would have gotten killed in recent years. Obviously, at least some parts of this program continue.
Obligatory SNL quote; “the automotive taste of a black man, the driving skills of an asian’.
CHA-CHING! great qoute!
Tiger Woods is so rich that he owns lots of expensive cars. Now he has a hole in one.
What’s the difference between a car and a golf ball? Tiger can drive a ball 300 yards.
Tiger Woods wasn’t seriously injured in the crash, but he’s still below par.
What were Tiger Woods and his wife doing out at 2.30 in the morning? They went clubbing.
Tiger Woods crashed into a fire hydrant and a tree. He couldn’t decide between a wood and an iron.
Ping just offered Elin Woods an endorsement contract pushing her own set of drivers. They are said to be named Elin Woods…”clubs you can beat Tiger with.”
Tiger just changed his nickname but still kept it in the cat family–his new name?: Cheetah
Since Tiger drives an Escalade, can he blame the accident on his Caddy?
(Many thanks to my friends at Ranger Power Sports.)
Bet Tiger is wishing he had gotten a freebie Lexus from Toyota instead. He could have blamed the wreck on them and maybe this all wouldn’t have blown up on him.
“Cadillac’s Escalade, safer than the Swedish model.”
When I looked at GM they never said anything about OnStar helping you find slutty cocktail waitresses and hostesses. Had they, I would have reconsidered.