tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post265215057197231988..comments2024-03-28T22:01:11.059-04:00Comments on Murder is Everywhere: Cars As CharacterOvidia Yuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749549092493567689noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-76725137496099114442021-07-01T06:19:33.874-04:002021-07-01T06:19:33.874-04:00My cops basically run with marked police vehicles,...My cops basically run with marked police vehicles, unless operating undercover and then it's generally a beat up Fiat or Hyundai Atos. HOWEVER, I do find motorcyles to be great favorites of my villains. Especially big BMWs. Narrow, poorly maintained island roads restrict what can effectively run on them -- leaving low-slung sports cars at a decided disadvange...though "The Gumball 3000 Rally" made it to Mykonos in 2017 (and again in 2019). Jeffrey Sigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00718317707555064653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-71169177919081265032021-06-27T17:07:23.107-04:002021-06-27T17:07:23.107-04:00I have that Italian car passion, Zoe. but so far, ...I have that Italian car passion, Zoe. but so far, the only car any of my characters have belongs tonRoberto Leary,, the police detective in Blood Tango. He drives, in 1945, a red Pontiac with great white wall tires. I was careful to explain how that gorgeous machine happens to be in Buenos Aires. I loved being with him while he was driving around the city in that car while solving the crime! Juan Peron has a government issue Rolls at the beginning, which is repossessed when he went to jail.<br /><br />The fourth in my Africa series, which is still waiting for publication, also has a car. It belongs to Karen and Bror Blixen and. Several people in the story, including Kwai Libano and an 11 year old boy, are in love with it. Cars were so new then, that almost no one in Africa had them.<br /><br />It’s so much fun thinking up automobiles after all the historical settings where people had carriages or rode horses, but I like that too. On top of everything else, one can give a horse a name! That also contributes to the characterization of its owner.Annamaria Alfierihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12311596277267789834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-20375178921337758372021-06-27T06:16:03.805-04:002021-06-27T06:16:03.805-04:00The police (and others) in Botswana like Land Rove...The police (and others) in Botswana like Land Rovers for obvious reasons. Seems you can't go wrong with those. But in one of our books where the bad guy executed a complicated plot to disable the petrol fuel system to strand our hero in the desert, a reader wrote to say that at that time the police used only diesel models. Sigh. Michael Sears (of Michael Stanley)https://www.blogger.com/profile/09886295534214542834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-22528291309445442792021-06-27T01:19:34.317-04:002021-06-27T01:19:34.317-04:00And, then, of course, there's Jim Rockford wit...And, then, of course, there's Jim Rockford with his Pontiac Firebird Esprit. The list seems endless. :-) (You're going to use immane in your next novel, right. Right? So right.)Everett Kaserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12371555243187874414noreply@blogger.com