But if I had money to blow on cars, no way would I be cruising around in a big SUV. There's the occasional new car that has some appeal, the Scion XB, the Mini Cooper, the FJ Cruiser, but mainly new cars suck. Hard.
Still, I had to take a picture of this car I saw on the way to a job interview.
Maybe new cars have always been horrible. Ignatius Reilly thought so back in the 60s, when so many classics were built:
“They would try to make me into a moron who liked television and new cars and frozen food. Don’t you understand? Psychiatry is worse than communism.”*
But if cars have always been lame as a group, the ones people preserve or duplicate with kit cars are the exceptions. The cars that rock. The ones that might not have been worth a year's salary and enslavement to usurious bankers, but at least gave you something for the misery they caused.
*That's a quote from one of my favorite novels, A Confederacy of Dunces. If you haven't read it, get off the internet and get to turning pages.
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