Hip hip and thankfully, indeed

As long as we're doing automotive news this afternoon, there's this ...

Of all the absurdly wealthy men in the Middle East, at least one has far more money than sense and proved it when he had his Lamborghini flown from Qatar to Britain for an oil change.

According the The Sun, the owner -- which the paper surmises is a sheik -- had Qatar Airways ship the Murcielago LP640 about 6,500 miles round trip at a cost of about 39 grand and God-knows-how-much greenhouse gas just to service the car (cost: $7,030.47). "This car doesn't have a carbon footprint," an unnamed airport worker told The Sun. "More like a crater." ...

David Price of Lamborghini Club UK essentially told the environmentalists to bugger off. ... The Sun quoted him saying, “If an owner wants to service his car in that way, it is his choice. I'm not surprised. Thankfully an age of excess in some areas continues."

[From The $46,616.47 Oil Change and Size-22 Carbon Footprint | Autopia from Wired.com]

Tallyho.