i've been obsessed with a car lately -- for the past year or so, in fact.
we'll be driving down the road and i'll tell the missus "now look at that one ... tell me that isn't cute?"
she'll respond by laughing, or sticking her tongue down her throat, or insulting my sense of style. "why don't you go buy one of those ugly-ass pontiacs while you're at it?" she'll sneer, and i'll just sit there and fume.
i think i know cool. it's just that my defintion of cool isn't necessarily anyone else's ... like my parents'. or her parents'. or her friends'. or most likely my friends' as well.
i might be alone on this, but for my money, the honda element is a really neat vehicle. it's got nice lines, it's incredibly useful in a whole number of ways, and it's a great dog vehicle.
when the missus and i were looking to replace her company car last year with one of our own, we test drove tons of vehicles. the one that intrigued us the most was the land rover discovery, so of course we jumped at the chance to drive one around the twin cities highways. and you know what? we discovered that it handled like a tank, rode like a tank, and sipped gasoline like a tank.
we crossed that off our list.
and now i was told that on saturday we could test drive the element.
i liked it. i loved it. it rode smooth, it handled well, and it felt like being in an SUV, but without the hideous gas mileage on the highway (20/24). even the missus said it wasn't as bad as she thought it would be.
on sunday, while we were out running errands, we came across an element with a peace sign on the back, parked in front of the store we were headed to ... and its owner was walking toward it. so we stopped the man and asked if we could ask him about his car.
it was tim sherno, formerly of fox 9 news!
what a nice guy. spent about 10 minutes talking with us about his car. his advice? "don't think about it -- just buy it."
i'm trying to get the missus to agree.
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