Santa Claus?

The Robinson R44 is the helicopter version of a Toyota Prius. Not cheap but not expensive either. Seats the family but hardly anything else. Not particularly fast but it will get you there. Not stylish but not completely embarrassing either. Are you starting to get the drift here? I don’t care the least for the Prius but I like the R44, and so to liken it with a Prius sounds a bit unfair. Well, it isn’t. The R44 is a helicopter and the Prius is a car. The fact that the R44 can get off the ground and travel a path normally reserved for birds, make it infinitely better than a Prius, which is after all, just a pile of crap.

With its spartan interior och lacklustre design, the R44 is not the choice for the opulent but rather the discreet. Furthermore would the choice of transportation never be questioned in the way an arrival by Airwolf would. The R44 is the Santa Claus of helicopters, and everybody likes Santa Claus.

Tags: Robinson, Santa Claus, Toyota Prius

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