A couple of weeks ago, I was walking the parents' dog in Palo Alto and spotted a vehicle that appeared to be the bastard offspring of a Fnord Exploder and a Subaru BRAT: basically, some goof had taken an Exploder and cut the cargo area, aft of the rear seats, down to a sort of mini-pickup-truck bed.
A block or two later, I saw another one. Apparently they come from the factory that way?
And, yesterday morning, I saw something remarkably similar, only it was bulkier and had a fancy upmarket badge on the front. Apparently its mother was a Cadillac Ladder Assault.
That BRAT has really been getting around, hasn't it? Born in 1977, and recently put out to stud?
And, really: part luxury snow-bunny wagon, part cute li'l pickup truck? Looks like we need a new term that's the inverse of "cowboy Cadillac".
Afterthought: y'know, those vehicles are the perfect match for the current crop of McMansions in Palo Alto (and, presumably, other upscale areas), which I've dubbed "millionaire doublewides": all the money is in the land, design, building permits, and fancy-looking furnishings; the structure itself is made as cheaply as can be managed, typically of recycled Pres-To-Logs. The wildly overpriced luxury SUV with pickup-truck pretensions just belongs in the driveway.
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