Then another military music began to be played on all of a sudden with fireworks. It was quite different from Johann Strauss’ light and cheerful waltz.
To the peoples’ ears, it sounded like a turbulent and thundering one as if it had revealed the trailer of the upcoming Big Battle. Listening to the sound carefully, the people immediately found out that it was so-called ‘Symphony of Triumph’or ‘The Battle Symphony’ of Ludwig van Beethoven. And, its title was ‘Wellington’s Victory’under heavy cannons and muskets.
According to the first movement of the symphony, a mass of jumping jacks came in the Stadium. At first glance, they posed as big men with a forbidding face. They are no other than Peugeot, Vauxhall, Holden, SAIC–IVECO, Jaguar, Dodge Viper, American Shelby, Lamborghini, Abarth of FIAT, boarlike Ram. In light of their awful mascots, they look to be bestial predators in the wild life, for instance, lion, tiger, Jaguar, reptile, bullfighter, scorpion, vultureand so on.()
Then, other predators entered in high feather with eagle- or falcon- like marques. They are Chrysler, Bentley, Aston Martin, Hillman, Lagonda, Mini, Isdera, Skoda, Genesis, Equus, Wuling, Corvette and Ssangyong. ()All marques stand for warhawks in the sky like the saying that ‘fine feathers make fine birds.’ They have no any compassion but brutal character. In this context, a Dutch Donkervoot’s motto is ‘No Compromise.’ ()
Then, ‘Aida Grand March’ by Verdi began to spread out in the air over the Coliseum heartily. The sounds are like a hopping and leaping soundtrack. With the soundtrack, a mass of contenders began to come in cheerfully. They look like gallant charioteers. Then they identified themselves that ‘I’m a galloping horse. I mean I’m KAMAZ of Russia, Ferrari of Italy, Porsche of Germany or Mustang of Ford. Or I am an Indian TVS or Chinkara.” ()
In light of their mascots, they look like ‘galloping horses.’ In fact, the mascots said indirectly that:
“We are ‘gee-gees’ with amazing high speed. Perhaps, you might have seen the old feature film, named Ben-Hur. There, Ben-Hur won the Laureate Crown with the best routers in the Roman Coliseum. In this context, this sort of mascots was made. That’s it.”
The saying was right. Like Ben Bur, KAMAZ has already won the trophy several times in the deadly dangerous Death Valley called ‘the Dakar Rally.’ Following them other competitors came in with similar mascots. They are Khodro of Iran, Azerbaijan Azsamand, Baojun of China, Eicher of India and Auverland of France. ()
And then, Sabre Dance, composed by a Russian musician Aram Khachaturian, was played on the playground abruptly for divertissement. It prompted the hot-button feeling of the racing game. It prompted the hot-button feeling of the racing game.
Then, a recently popular music, Victory, of the British Hot Baby, Bond Band, began to be played at a quick tempo. Other hit albums of Bond; Explosive, Fuego, Shine, Pump It,burst out one after another over the stadium. All the sounds were extremely speedy and hot-blooded. They were all like fire-crackers for fun and games. Presumably, the series of speedy music were meticulously intended to vitalize the mood of the Coliseum and pump out the fighting spirits from the combat teams. Yes, all of it was hop-up itself.
A series of dancing music, ‘Can-Can Music’and‘Infernal Galop,’by a French composer Jacques Offenbach, spread out one after another at the stadium. The frenzied mood peaked.
“A Freak Show”
Then other competing teams entered. At half a glance, they looked eccentric and grotesque like mal-formed animals in a freak show for promotion. In this point, it seemed they were quite different tits for tat. First, a Swedish warrior, named Volvo, entered the stadium and threw down a gaga with his unique image that:
“Hey, men, this is my sign. () As you might presume something from the sign, it is Mars. In other words, it points to the Roman god of war. In this relation, I’ll tell you something more about that. I mean, like the Roman God, I am a macho man. Thus, the mark is the sign of ♂, similar to Mars(meaning Roman god of war). Its contrast is ♀. Do you understand me? Of course, I’m sure you do.”
It spoke indirectlythat ‘I am a macho man with manly spirit.’ In fact, what he said was right. Like the manly sign (♂), his epithet was "Volcanic Voice of Viking,” shortly called "VVV" with his own jumbo Juggernauts. For such a reason, his naughty slogan was daringly that ‘There’s more to life than a Volvo’ or ‘Volvo for life.’ From this point of view, he must have been a man of mettle with adventurous mind. Under him, there are regional warlords, Nissan Diesel, Mack trucks, and Renault trucks. ()
With Volvo, another peculiar Swedish came in. He, like him, has a unique shape. He was Scania. (). His shape is like a griffin with an eagle-like head & a lion-like body. With the awesome image he has preened himself as if he were another scrappy, warlike man-at-arms such as Volvo. Seeing the grim Swedish men-at-arms, the people have thought of them as fighting Eurasian beasts such as Chimera and Griffin. (Below are Chimera (left) and Griffin (Right).