Wednesday, September 3, 2008

the many forms of sacrilege

sacrilege is the act of taking something sacred to someone (usually religious in nature, but not always) and RUINING it. in this particular case it is not religious and the person will not be condemned to Hades...but they should...maybe even to the 8th or 9th circles.

those that defile the masterful engineering feat that is collectively known as the automobile.

the first person that is on my list has been there for more than a decade. the douchetastic GM Executive that thought it would be 'OK' to put an automatic transmission in the Corvette. that is the antithesis of what the Corvette was SUPPOSED to represent. you can not have a car that is meant to represent the freedom of the American road... and spoil it with an automatic. if you want an auto transmission, go buy the mini van that you should be driving.

next, any idiot that lowers a truck. once again, that would be the opposing purpose for which the vehicle was designed. lowering your truck just means that you don't understand the fundamental purpose of having a truck and therefore should not be allowed to own said truck.

and lastly. Travis Barker. yes, that Travis Barker. he lives in my neighborhood and drives (among many other vehicles) a Lotus Elise. to which he put a Yakima bike rack on. WTF? do i really need to go into this? probably not. but i will. it is not that he has a bike rack, frankly more people should. then maybe they would ride their bikes and get off the road so that i can drive like i want to. it is more the car he has chosen for said rack. i mean... a Lotus? why not the Yukon Denali he has? or even the 760i BMW? (though i would frown upon that as well). the Lotus is designed to be one of the most light weight and capable track cars of all time. i mean for crying out loud it doesn't even have carpet in it! for this Travis, i dubbed you the Anti-Carist.

2 comments:

Tim said...

it's true automatic trannys in a corvette defeat the purpose.

Tim said...

and i've driven both....