They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Sometimes, though, I wish the eye was that of Polyphemus. Do you know the story of Polyphemus? Better known as the ‘Cyclops’ from Homer’s great epic The Odyssey, the giant Polyphemus had it out for Odysseus and his men and was planning to eat them all. But Odysseus tricked him, getting him drunk and telling him that his name was “Nobody”. When Polyphemus passed out, Odysseus heated up a stake of wood and shoved it into Polyphemus’s remaining eye. The giant awoke, screaming “‘Nobody’ stabbed me!”, much to the amusement of his fellow giants who thought he was drunk and being tortured by the Gods. The story is apropos when considering the X6 for several reasons. First, though it’s a phrase often used when considering the X6, I believe it was Car and Driver who summarized the X6 as the answer to a question nobody was asking. Secondly, I bet you thought nobody could make the X6 uglier. But, you and I were both wrong as this custom X6 proves. In fact, this grotesque creation has me wishing Odysseus had stabbed me in the eyes:
