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What ever happened to America's love affair with cars? Has been touched on here, but this guy's writing reminds me of P.J. O'Rourke style.

https://nypost.com/2019/06/10/what-ever-happened-to-americas-love-affair-with-cars/

from the piece:

What happened? How did an entire generation — OK, two guys — lose their love of that quintessential American desire to get in, floor it, barrel down the freeway with the radio loud, hit a concrete post and have the steering column spear you in the sternum like a plastic sword piercing a cocktail olive?

I've only read the first few inches, but so far, it's hilarious!

Quote:

“I woke up this morning,” I said to the salesman, “and I felt like I wanted to be flattered and lied to, but there’s no brothel around so I thought I’d go to a dealership.”

Quote:

I told him which car I wanted, and he did not praise my selection as being the obvious choice of a virile specimen such as myself with exceptional taste, nor did he point out that the XL model, which had everything I liked, also came with leather manual covers, BoostPlus™ assist for suborbital insertion, a key fob that cried like an eagle when you pushed the lock button, and so on.

I kind of like the idea of the key fob that cries like an Eagle when you push the lock button. hhahahahah