Unless you own a Mr. Burns Brand Ivory Backscratcher, you are not the Grey Lady's target audience. From today's Automobile section, an astonishing reminder of who IS the Grey Lady's target audience:
DEVICES that freshen the air inside cars have come a long way since scented cardboard conifers began dangling from rear-view mirrors and golden crowns started sprouting from the dashboards of livery cabs.
Now, the drive to deliver olfactory pleasure may have reached its zenith with the Maybach Zeppelin, a special edition limousine — limited to 100 units worldwide — from Mercedes-Benz’s ultraluxury division. In addition to lambskin carpets and engraved silver Champagne flutes, the car, which resurrects a nameplate from the 1930s, is available with a perfume atomizer....
The perfume atomizer option adds about $5,000 to the base price of the Maybach 57 Zeppelin edition, which costs nearly $520,000 in Germany; the larger Maybach 62 Zeppelin lists for more than $600,000.
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