LITTLE RED BOOSTER
The more interesting characters in world history are the ones who go out of their way to do what they’re not supposed to do. Jane Austen, for example, writing transcendent fiction at a time when women were generally seen and not heard. (That’s the 19th century’s opinion, not ours – if it enrages you, punch a historian). Or Salvador Dalí, who tirelessly yet effortlessly subverted the everyday with offbeat unusualness both in art and real life; or John Lennon and Yoko Ono, who brought about world peace by refusing to get out of bed, which definitely worked. No disputing that. The nonconformists make life interesting – that’s why Sid Vicious will always be cooler than Cliff Richard, even if the reality was that they were equally irritating company in person.
It’s maverick thinkers such as these who colourfully shake up the car scene with their bizarre concepts too. We love a weird project and we’ve pretty much seen it all over the
