TTAC alum Justin Berkowitz has been checking out the trademark applications lately, and he’s uncovered what looks like a change in name for Lamborghini’s ridiculous shopping trolley for Russian May-September rent-a-rides.
According to Mr. Berkowitz, Lamborghini recently registered the Spanish name “Huracan”. This is, apparently, Spanish for “hurricane”, or vice versa. The name “Deimos” has also been floated about.
Although TorqueNews called the name “Huracan” a move away from bullfighting, it turns out that couldn’t be less true. One of the C/D blog commenters noted this morning in what looked like authentically broken English that “Huracan” was “the bull of the century”… and, indeed, he’s correct. Let’s meet the real Huracan (warning: I didn’t watch this all the way through but it almost certainly has animals being stabbed with sharp objects at some point):
And here’s a stunning tribute to the death of Huracan, mixed in with some music which will be somewhat familiar to anyone who has ever visited the Mexico pavilion at EPCOT:
Look for the deaths of actual production Huracans to be accompanied by drunken squealing, the crunching of guardrails, and the incessant beat of DJ Tiesto throughout what will no doubt be a luxury-branded, state-of-the-art, audio experience system.
You realize there’s a difference between bull fighting and bull riding right?
It’s all cruelty, brother. Bulls should be left free to stand on top of a hill somewhere and make jokes about walking down there and screwin’ ’em all.
Thank you Mr. Duvall.
Thank you for that. Slowly torturing animals to death as entertainment debases humanity.
Bull riding isn’t so bad. It doesn’t seem inherently different than horse racing or equestrian riding, unless the bulls are abused. I’ve only been to one rodeo so I don’t know if this is typical, but at that one the bulls actually looked like they were enjoying themselves. They’d do a lap and strut around proudly after disposing of the rider. It looked like they were in on the sport aspect of it. As long as they stay healthy and successful, their career should even result in getting some serious action as studs down the road.
Sure, any form of removing an animal from its wild habitat and forcing it to live under our rules could be considered cruel. I won’t disagree with that. But I didn’t think the bulls at the rodeo went outside of this grey area like those used in bullfighting do.