I admit it. I know it’s wrong, in so many ways, but I cannot help myself. I’m in love.
Perhaps love isn’t the right word. I don’t love SUVs. I don’t love the idea putting hundreds of dollars toward gasoline every month. I don’t love spending thousands of dollars on new cars (well, actually I do, or I would, theoretically, but I can’t).
Lust is probably a more accurate description of what I feel toward this vehicle.
Yet the attraction has not been fleeting. I first laid eyes on this beautiful thing last summer while visiting the Oregon coast. I pulled up next to it in a parking lot and just gaped at it. Its retro lines and astonishingly beautiful paint job swept me off my feet.
Okay, now let me mention that I’m totally not a car person. Cars are functional and useful, but I’m driving an eight year old station wagon with 103,000 miles on the odometer and it’s fine with me. I don’t generally go gaga over cars. I didn’t even know this thing was a Toyota FJ Cruiser until a couple of weeks ago.
I might admire cars in the abstract, but they’re just, you know, cars. No big whoop.
But not this gorgeous thing. Though it will never be mine in reality (they don’t even offer this color anymore—idiots), it will always be mine in my heart. Where it counts. At least that’s what I keep telling myself.
*sob*
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I was never an SUV fan until the kiddos started getting bigger and we started doing stuff like camping and remodeling our basement. We still use the smaller car if we can, but sometimes we just need the space the SUV offers!!
Posted 30 Apr 2008 at 9:54 pm ¶I understand. I tell myself it’s wrong to identify with the vehicle I drive but I can’t seem to help myself and I do.
Posted 01 May 2008 at 4:40 am ¶Cool - looks kinda like the old Land Cruisers (70’s?), but even better.
Posted 01 May 2008 at 9:32 am ¶I wonder how many of us would be driving different cars if there were no other factors than desire…Probably everyone but my friend G, who has three or four cars.
Posted 01 May 2008 at 9:32 am ¶I totally understand! The look is grand even if it is so politically incorrect…. I am looking around for a good, low-mileage, gas-saving car out of need and not desire.
Posted 01 May 2008 at 5:32 pm ¶You’ll always have Oregon.
Posted 01 May 2008 at 7:19 pm ¶heh
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