Monday Mileage Midget: Vecchio Combustible Paradisio!

Today's edition of Monday Mileage Midget is brought to you by the state of Florida. Palm trees. Retirement communities. Traffic signals and double yellow lines that are treated as mere suggestions. Florida has become an economic juggernaut thanks in large part to cheap housing, plenty of sunshine, and legal loopholes that allow well deserving retirees and unethical douchebags to live on the cheap. There is one other unusual reality benefit of living in Florida… low mileage cars.   Here we have a 2008 Mercury Grand Marquis GS with only 3,289 miles. I love the interior on this one. It just screams out, "Road trip!" with those large cupholders and the virtually untouched seats. And here we have a 2001 Mercury Grand Marquis GS with only 10,702 miles. Pardon the sun glint but I'm not the one taking these pictures. Finally, if you are willing to go a bit beyond the usual automotive blue plate specials, there is… A 2005 Honda Pilot EX with AWD and 15k miles. A loaded up for 1994, Ford Ranger STX. ABS, Cruise, 5-Speed, Ice Cold Air, AM/FM Radio with the all too essential cassette deck and alloy wheels. A ride that may have cost less out the door in 2009 than it did back in 1994. This one has 22,375 original miles. Finally, if you find yourself owning a lifetime supply of Grey Poupon and houndstooth sportcoats, you can buy yourself one of these. A 1997 Bentley Brooklands. Gorgeous. 30,021 miles. Need I say more? Well, if I must. This may have been one of the last old school designs that you could get before bulbous bling started to take over. The difference between the Bentley Brooklands of 1997… and the Bentley Brooklands of 2008 is a classic representation of how elegance in automotive design gave way to gaudiness. The most recent generations of the Grand Marquis and the Pilot represent much of the same. Well earned prestige, that ended up completely subverted by those who thought the protruding plasticidity of Escalades and fingernail thin chrome treatments would be the way of the future. Mark my words. The 1997 Brooklands will be a classic for all the right reasons. The 2008 model won't be nearly as well received when it comes time for tomorrow's classic car shows. It may be a hot auction commodity by then. But only because they sold so few of them. from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com

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