Monday, April 25, 2005

Popemobile or "Jeeplike"?

There's some confusion as to what to call the new Popemobile...


Not your father's popemobile ...

After his inaugural speech, the new pope took a victory lap around St. Peter's Square. But there's some confusion about how to refer to his ride. The LAT calls it an "an open-backed Fiat sport-utility vehicle." The WP and USAT both call it "Jeep-like." The WSJ twice refers to it as a "white open-topped vehicle." The NYT calls it simply a "popemobile." But unlike JP2's popemobile, this vehicle has no bulletproof glass. "It was not the same 'popemobile' that John Paul used," writes the LAT, "but it made a similar point."

Jay Dixit is a writer in New York. He has written for the New York Times and Rolling Stone.

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