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2006

Queen Seeks New Car

The Queen of Great Britain is seeking a new Royal limousine to replace her 4-year-old Bentley.

In December 2001, Bentley - still under the same roof as Rolls-Royce then - presented the Queen a new London taxi... excuse me.... a new limousine as a present to celebrate her majesty's golden jubilee of ruining ruling the UK. However, 4 years on and the Bentley was proved to be horribly thirsty. It consistently returned single-figure mpg and eat heavily into the ever-tightening Royal family budget. Sources close to the Royal family revealed that Tony Blair recently requested the Queen to either change the car or walk on foot. Considering her majesty's overweight body, she chose the former option.

<< Horrible fuel consumption scared the Queen

The Queen was also unhappy that she was cheated by Bentley - since she received the car the company actually became a German company, controlled by a company established by her enemy Hitler and the Nazi party. This caused her many sleepless nights. Therefore this time around her majesty wants to make sure her new car must be produced by a pure British car maker.

In the beginning, the Queen chose Jaguar, hoping its lightweight technology can solve her overweight problem. Unfortunately, when she realized Jaguar was part of the Ford group and the latter belongs to American actor Harrison Ford, she shifted her attention to BMC. But then she was shocked to hear that BMC already evolved to British Leyland, then Austin-Rover, then Rover, and then MG-Rover, and then vanished a year ago.

Eventually, the choices were reduced to two manufacturers - Morgan and Bristol.

Morgan's managing director Charles Morgan felt very excited when he heard this news. "This is the best day to our family since my Grandfather caught a big fish in 1909 ! we will definitely tried our best to serve the Queen with the best car in the world !
we even developed a 4-seater specially for her majesty.

<< 4-Seater specially developed for Queen

"For sure, I am confident that our car suit her majesty most. For example, our wooden chassis matches her wooden face perfectly. Our outdated styling matches her outdated thinking."

At the other side, Bristol's Tony Crook also wants to make the deal with the Queen. "The Queen will be our most important customer. Frankly speaking, apart from her majesty I can't think of anybody interested in our outdated look. If we make the deal, we can increase our sales performance by 100% compare with last year !

<< Bristol Blenheim 3G

"I do think we have strong advantage over our competitor because we know the needs of the Queen. To reduce fuel costs, we shall offer her majesty our LPG-powered Blenheim 3G. We shall provide a 18-meter transparent refuelling hose, so it will be very convenient to steal gas from the kitchen of Tony Blair's house.

"Besides, the car has an easily replaceable spare tire located just under the front fender, so the Queen can do it by herself and save substantial mechanics costs.



 Easy to replace spare wheel;  Technician demonstrates how Queen fits here

"However, to me the proudest feature of our car is a huge boot. It can carry the Queen gracefully, with enormous legroom to stretch her legs, the longest door to enable getting in and out easily, and a big cylindrical pillow to allow her majesty to sleep comfortably. The Queen must be happy with that !"






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