Keylime Auto Lust

I can't imagine I'd ever resist, should I win big bucks, the lure of buying an obscenely expensive car, even though the right thing to do would be to buy a small hatchback and give the difference to charity.

Take the Lamborghini Gallardo (named for one of the original breeds of fighting bulls from which modern fighting bulls can trace their heritage) with its aluminum frame and aluminum body and it's approximately $200,000 (American) price tag. And in lime green. WAH.

Here, I photographed it perched atop, and its weight supported by, four bone china cups outside William Ashley on Bloor Street. There is no William Ashley, by the way. The owner of the continent's most successful (and apparently the world's most exclusive) china shop is actually a (now) elderly Jewish woman who, when the store was founded (decades ago), understood, sadly, that no one would take a woman business person seriously, and few of Toronto's rich would, sadder still, buy retail from a Jew. All that according to a Globe article some years ago on the store. If memory serves correct from that article, the single location in Toronto, (there is an Ashley boutique in another Toronto store, and another in-store boutique out West somewhere), generates, according to analysts' predictions (a private firm, so no public books sharing) revenue of $60 plus million annually. From a single retail outlet!

Anyway, the car is damn hot. Lamborghini admits it's a sports car but says it is designed for everyday use. Which may be why winter tires will be available as an option next year... Its rear spoiler is automatically engaged. It has two radiators and separate gear box and engine box coolers.

Oh, Ashley's is damn hot too. I could spend days in there.