Rob Ford went on a coffee run with Deadmau5 and filmed with entire trip. Photo: Screenshot We won’t go into too much detail about the video below, which features Toronto mayor Rob Ford sitting in the passenger seat of DJ deadmau5’s custom-wrapped Ferrari (which he has dubbed the Purrari, since it’s emblazoned with a gigantic nyan cat).
Instead, here are five things to watch out for as you tune in for the clip’s slow-moving, foul-mouthed and oddly intimate ride around Toronto:
1. Rob Ford’s coffee preference
The mayor of Toronto apparently relies on espresso (or as he says, “expresso”) to power himself through long nights of returning constituents’ phone calls. So if Rob Ford phones you at 1 o’clock in the morning, you know why. Expresso! Five at a time!
2. Rob Ford’s need for speed
More than once, the Toronto mayor admits to a predilection for flooring it while he’s driving to or from his Huntsville cottage in his Cadillac. “If the cops catch me,” Ford says, “I’m toast.”
3. Rob Ford’s appreciation for motor vehicles
Ford doesn’t actually seem to know too much about cars — certainly not as much as deadmau5, himself somewhat of an aficionado — but the Toronto mayor does dedicate substantial air-time to airing his grievances with fellow city councillors who prefer to take public transit or cycle to work. “It drives me nuts,” Ford says, later complaining that streetcars and cyclists clog his commute along Dundas home to Etobicoke.
4. Rob Ford’s love of things that are “cool.”
deadmau5’s car is “cool,” he says. Football, too, is “cool.” Not cool: a multi-million dollar BMX track planned for the PanAm Games. Not lobbying for the X-Games crowd, obviously.
5. Rob Ford is not a fan of texting while driving
Nor eating while driving, which he says is “the biggest problem.” (Reading while driving, though? Apparently not an issue.)
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