Rides of State

It’s Friday again, which means it’s time for something fun and random from the web.

Not to worry, I’ve been delving deeper into the Nieman Reports, and I’ll have a lot more great content and notes from that in the coming days, but today I wanted to shine the spotlight onto the most original and interesting thing I’ve found this week.

The author of the blog Tamerlane’s Thoughts, named only as “kashgar216” decided to compile a list of the vehicles driven by the heads of state of every nation in the United Nations…all 196 of them.

The project took him to obscure media outlets, propaganda videos, and a good amount of detective work. This wasn’t a quick, fly-by night project (as evidenced by sentences like “After examining the roofline, the shape of the rear view mirror, and the shape of the headrest, I have concluded that this is a Merc S-class.”)

The collection is pretty impressive, and just more evidence that if you’ve ever wondered about anything in the world, there’s some guy somewhere on the internet who has likely figured out the answer.