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Originally Posted by Martian
And finally, I have only one question. The gearhead in me has to ask : what's the shiny new musclecar?
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Sorry, that's an in-joke that slipped in.
It's an Acura RL. I wrecked Grace's 300c a few months ago, and when we got this car I looked at the horsepower and called it a muscle car because the horsepower seemed like a lot to me (290) and Grace had referred to her 300 as a muscle car. I didn't realize that there were other things that make a car a muscle car, like rear-wheel drive, a v-8 engine, the sound of the motor, low-end torque, and off the line acceleration. They've explained the low-end torque thing, but while it makes sense during the explanation, five minutes later, it's gone. Part of that may be due to my not really paying attention, sort of the way their eyes glaze over when I try to explain the difference between classical, neo-classical, modern, and post-modern literary criticism.
Anyway, we got the RL because it had the best set of safety features of those we were looking at, which was first priority, and I like how it looked and felt driving better than the other possible candidates, and dubbed it my "shiny new muscle car" and got laughed at and was explained in a very obnoxiously condensending way why it isn't a muscle car, but a mid-level luxury sedan. For what my father-in-law paid for it, mid-level seems a bit stingy, but I'll stick with their evaluation. I, of course, refer to it in that manner as often as possible, just to annoy them.
Gilda