Our New Favorite

[fflo]

Move over, Passat wagon, new Beetle, and even (marketed-to-lesbians-Subaru) Forester: Holly has found the new vehicle for us---it's the (drum roll........)

Honda Element ! ! (cymbal crash!)




What do you think? Do you prefer it in orange?:



Or covered in soap?



It's embarrassing to realize that we want a car being marketed to the X-treme 20-something market, but, goddamnit, it's dorkily boxy! How can one resist that? Plus it has those backwards-opening back doors:



and the shifter's on the dashboard



and the seats can all lay down

.

Yeah, I'll stop there, but I don't want to. I want to show you the optional cabana tent for the rear end and stuff like that. I want to go drive one right now but don't want to get my hopes up until I can investigate how the thing's doing mechanically (in what I think is still its first model year) and whether we have a chance in h-e-double-toothpicks of getting one. Too bad they haven't been out long enough to be available used. (Maybe we won't get one until that's the case.)

Here, here---just one more, as a parting shot:

Comments

[vachementmoi.livejournal.com]

i'm all about orange. my dream car is either a peugot 206 in orange OR a volvo station wagon, in orange. i think for some reason it suits me. and also, how can you be depressed when you get up and walk out the door and see an orange car and know it's yours and yours alone? it's so...sunny. but yellow is not 'sunny'. yellow is just annoying. not that that has anything to do with anything, but i've just had a whiskey and coke, so you know...

[groovesinorbit]

Dorky is definitely the word for it, but I do like the orange. What ya ought try to find is an old VW Thing. That's a cool dorky car. : )

[sprig5.livejournal.com]

this is Sa---- sprig5, talking to you from the future....Don't buy that car. Dooooon't!

[fflo.livejournal.com]

ha!