The price of oil might be heading towards $100 per barrel but that doesn’t seem to be blunting some bankers’ appetites for fuel-guzzling vehicles. Nor is their ability to make money necessarily linked to good taste when spending it, as evidenced by the recent purchase of a stretch Hummer by London-based Citigroup managing director Valentin Ehmer.
As if the extra length wasn’t enough – the standard model is after all 17 feet long – the bank’s head of fixed income and derivative products also specified gullwing doors – like those on vehicles such as the 1950s’ Mercedes 300SL or the 1980s’ Delorean.
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