"You do not have to meet me inside the airport," I l I said in Danger Girl led me by the hand in the baggage area of Albuquerque. "I'm not ten years."
"I do not want to lose you."
"Lost?" My attention was briefly hijacked by a curvaceous Latina in a kind of slut-combination of translucent fabric. "This the fourth smallest commercial airport in North America is like,".
"Lost," said DG, following my gaze to the girl who was now leaning more obliviously to set his shoe, "as that . "
" Oh. "
" I'm still angry that happened last week, you know, "she said, throwing my luggage in the hold of his new car rental. "I do not get credit for this location."
"So?"
"So he was renting was going to put me over my next free rental day."
"Wait. You are angry because you do not get credit for the theft of a Challenger? "
" Because I have obtained a certificate of free rental. "
" But you will pay for the Challenger! "I sputtered. "It was a free rental day for himself."
"Not the same," said DG, in this conversation is over voice. "And this new rental car is broken. It is really slow. I should never buy a Kia."
"This," I exhaled, already worn to a frazzle seven days I drove more two thousand miles and flew more than nine thousand, "is a Fiat 500L."
"It looks like a Kia," DG proclaimed. "And it's broken. You see?" She floored the accelerator on Central Avenue. A homeless person jumped to safety from his perch on the sidewalk.
"No, I think how fast they are supposed to be."
"Well, it is not surprising that you see Kias there. I call it the little puppy Poky. Have you read this book? "
" Recently? "
" No, as a child, like everyone else. It is a little puppy Press Poky. I'll have another car rental agency. "Sure enough, the next morning she returned to a V6 Camaro.
"How much did they charge you?" I asked.
"How did they charge Me? "The disbelief in his voice was palpable.
" Yes. How much did they charge to change cars. "
" Nothing. It would have been twenty-five dollars for a Mustang. But the Camaros and Challengers are free. The airport lot is full of them. Because people in ABQ think a Camaro cheap with tiny wheels is just the fucking pinnacle of human achievement there, the best you can get. Hey, is this a new one? I used to have a Nova. Come look. "And she pinned the accelerator in its judgment. A kind of large lizard went under the wheels of sodden thump ." This has balls. Certainly faster than a Tahoe. Hey, we're here. I really like that Nova. But what I want, I decided, is a Nova, but the Lexus RC-F. I can not be impressed by what Nova, or the Camaro, after rising in the Lexus RC-F "
" They are not, "I replied," even remotely near the same price. "
" But I may be, it is like they are the same price. And the Camaro was $ 75,000 was super sucky. "
" You mean Z / 28 "
" Yes. There are no Lexus RC-F ".
" in my opinion, "Danger Girl continued, "Camaro has always been the car of a young girl from the Mustang. And it does not look like an old Camaro at all. The Challenger looks like an old Challenger. Why does this have a screen in the dashboard there is no rear camera? Is this the same car your friend Patrick, I met this evening with Alex Roy, crushed? "
" It is crushed again. "
" He could not be going very fast. This is slower than my old 1970 Monte Carlo. Uh-oh. "Before 04 white-ish black Escalade and Escalade 04-ish blocking both lanes of the road for what seemed like no reason.
" If you honk or something? "
" We'll get shot, "DG reminded me." This is the city of Albuquerque. "In a moment, the two drove Climbing and began playfully swerving each other. "These two," my companion said, "live in caravans. But they escalations. "
" Well, those who are older escalations. "
" It always makes me want to vote something that is more Republican than the Republicans. "
" As, equity Climbing-away-from-poor people go? "
"These people," she replied with disdain trace "could not be elected to New Mexico."
We stopped at a motorcycle shop where DG has expressed interest in red-white-and-blue Honda CBR500. The salesman said, "That's a lot of bike for a lady just starting"
"I had a Harley Softail when I was a teenager," she snapped
["well ... let me show you the CB1000. "Then, having purchased no motorbikes and that damaged one on the show floor (I backed into the mirror of a new Honda CTX1300 causing the housing to crack and fall) we cruised on the side of the city and I thought at length about the virtues of this former new Camaro. Nominally speaking, of 2012 V6es with their new headers can be massaged by integrated bolt-ons in 13.9 seconds quarter mile, right there with the Ferrari Testarossa and the Porsche 964 and my V6 Accord. in practice, though, are kind of poky little puppy, emitting a horrible noise that fly automatically takes its sweet time grab a lower gear and causing the entire interior vibrate his gray plastic 1989 Cavalier brittle. the 2011 Mustang was much better inside although it lacked the heavily-wrinkled outdoor drama that still makes this low rent lease muscular look and threatening despite the high side walls and asthmatic exhaust.
However, the performance of this fifth-generation car is sadly Fiero-2M4-esque. For starters, all the Camaro can do, the Pontiac G8 could do better. For a long time the cuts were lighter than their sedan parents, and you can blame things like side-impact regulations for this but gain weight Camaro has always been particularly blatant and it even permeates the large variations -motor with a kind of nonchalance inertia at any time. The outgoing Mustang was no sports car, but it sure as hell seemed a when driven back to back with a Camaro.
If insurance companies allow such a thing, a 2015 Camaro will be a great car for a teen adventure in 2025 or approximately horizon. For a generation raised in the backseat of Highlanders and drivers, it will seem quite mobile-adventure-out balls, and for children who have grown up in the shadow of the monster Sequoia (Toyota, not the tree) this cut will not seem very oversized.
New-car buyers will want to wait for the sixth generation car, which should be as '89 Fiero GT in '84 Indy Pace Car the current model. New GM may be late to the party whenever possible (see HHR, Chevrolet SRX and Cadillac), but it ends model lifetimes right when the vehicle involved in slouches acceptability. My guess is the next ponycar conflict closely resemble his predecessor Nineties :. The Camaro will be faster and more capable and the Mustang will be usable and popular
On the way to the airport at oh-dark THIRTY DG was all smiles. "With this property, I'll finally get that day without being cheated on me before," she assured me. "And I'll have some free updates, too."
"You can rent a Porsche," I suggest, "or a Mercedes."
"What I really want," she said, "is to rent a Lexus RC-F. But if you notice, you will see that nobody ever a RC-F for rent. or Lexus. "As we got to the back area and door Camaro closed with a sickly rattle, and the trunk popped unevenly thick hinges stamped on the forehead of DG briefly narrowed. "Why do you think it is?"
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