With Glenn Beck enthralling thousands from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday, you'd think that a man with big dreams would also need a big vehicle. Well, Beck has had a couple.  Beck told Motor Trend last year that his daily driver is a Cadillac Escalade, the same model we told you about yesterday that spelled trouble for both Paris Hilton and Tiger Woods. His other car is sort of a corporate sister, the less flashy GMC Yukon Denali.  Since he's an advocate for what he see as core American values, Beck makes sure he drives American cars. But that's a bit of a departure from his early years when he learned to drive on a 1976 Toyota Celica and bought a 1969 MG convertible as his first car. Those MG had so many mechanical problems, we imagine it made any Detroit beast look reliable by comparison.  Beck told Motor Trend that he really loves his 2006 Escalade. "It's solid. I had a Range Rover before that and I hated that car." It, too, was an unreliable foreigner.  Like Rush Limbaugh, Beck is no fan of giving tax breaks for hybrid cars:  In fact, he says, they amount to tax breaks for the rich. "Did you know the average household income of a hybrid buyer is over $113,000?" he was quoted by Brad Berman's HybridCars.com last year as having said on his radio show, which he does in addition to his show on Fox News.  To report corrections and clarifications, contact Standards Editor  . For publication consideration in the newspaper, send comments to  . Include name, phone number, city and state for verification. To view our corrections, go to
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