China butts
I saw a nice new SUV behind me this morning. It was one of those Nissans that has a grille kind of like a really chromed-out Aztek. The Murano, they call it. 245HP, all-wheel drive, real sporty. If you go to their website, you’ll notice they don’t show a whole lot of pictures of the front, so maybe I’m not the only one who noticed the resemblance.
Anyway, this thing looked hot — like it was fixin’ to climb right up the sides of the buildings we passed. Until it got to the railroad tracks. This guy crossed the railroad tracks like he had a fully functioning champagne fountain in the back and he didn’t want to spill a drop. Either that, or his own butt was made out of delicate china.
Now what’s going on here? I’ve had cars where you had to watch the bumps or something would fall off. But this was a brand-new, sporty Nissan Murano. If anything could take a well paved railroad crossing it’s that SUV.
Anybody who’s going to contend that SUVs are for driving — that they have anything at all to do with fun — has got to get past that one.