More car crap

first car crap
second car crap

I believe it was when I was in my MAYBE A VOLVO! days when Jeny first mentioned it to me. She had been poking around on the internet, looking at cars, and came across a Lincoln of some new sort, and started yapping that I should get a Lincoln…

No, Jeny, I shouldn’t get a Lincoln. I’m looking for a car, not a tank, and something I can afford to drive, not something where I’d have own stock in Exxon to be able to drive it. 

Yeah, but daddy, I think you might like these…

No, Jeny, I wouldn’t. Look, I’ve been looking at Volvos, and now you think I’d be the sort that would like a Lincoln? Not hardly.

I like to keep an open mind, as you can see.  Well, hell, I had an aunt and an uncle who did nothing but buy Mercuries (if that’s the plural…it can’t be…Mercurys?  Well, whatever…) and Lincolns, and those fuckers where huge, heavy, expensive-to-run things, and I want no part of that.

And then a couple days later I thought about them again, Lincolns, that is, and took a look at their website.

Oh.

…Holy shit, those aren’t  the Lincolns I remember.  I mean, they aren’t small, but certainly not large, relatively light weight, and nicely styled…OH, and lookie here, they have a hybrid…

…and thus began my love affair with the Lincoln MKZ hybrid, which continues to this day…

It caught my eye mostly, I guess, because I expected some version of those big bull dozers they used to sell. Well, they do have the Navigator, which is about the size of the average dump truck, but not this thing.

The MKZ hybrid (and the gasbrid, too, they have one of those) is what I’d call a mid sized car, or a smaller end big sized car, but whatever one calls it, it ain’t all that big. It’s about the right size, actually.  The insides are all leather and wood, with all sorts of cool technical  electronical shit in it…but how about 41 mpg city – 36 mpg highway? How’s that sound to you?  And, yes, I’ve read every review, seen every video I can locate on these, and the specs are born out as accurate. One of the cool things about this particular hybrid, is that it is the fastest one around, in terms of running on electricity. Sucker goes 47 mph in the electric mode, or whatever it’s called, and at that speed, I can’t see how I’d ever use gas around town, or not very much.

You can go read about it at the Lincoln website, if you’ve a mind to, but unless I’m met with some big negative surprise when I go to look at them (no, I’ve never seen one, to say nothing of touching one) and assuming I can get in and out of it easily enough, I think one of these will suit me just fine. Oh, and it has a fine bumper to bumper warranty, four years “complementary” maintenance, and the drive train is guaranteed for seven years.

Plus, I don’t need some ole black guy to drive me around, I can do it myself…

Next time…The Play Car…dun dun dun dunnnnnnn…(that’s heavy music, that’s what that is)