# What future popes drive... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 9, 2005, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-future-popes-drive/303121 "2005-05-09T21:54:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-future-popes-drive/303121/1 "2005-05-09T21:54:21Z")
… can’t believe nobody has made any smart remarks about the latest in the series of [Golden Palace Casino’s](http://www.casinopassport.com/Golden-Palace-Pope-Mobile.php) acquisitions of oddball religious items. Specifically, a 1999 VW Golf with 85000Km on the odometer that belonged until the end of last year to then-Dean of Cardinals Josef Ratzinger. The guy who bought it (from the same dealer who sold it in the first place) made a neat EU179,000 profit, almost a quarter million US$. Talk about pennies from heaven… ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-future-popes-drive/303121/2 "2005-05-09T22:12:46Z")
No no no. Popes of the future will drive [this.](http://www.superdickery.com/dick/13.html) And look, it does [time travel](http://www.superdickery.com/science/4.html) too. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-future-popes-drive/303121/3 "2005-05-09T22:24:42Z")
I think he’d look cool driving around in [this](http://www.velocityjournal.com/jrnl/1951/vmd2785ov.html).