Groovy Dispatches
This just in. We have discovered that the best place to buy a car today is in…Michigan. Regional pricing differences are profound across the United States for American-made cars. Thanks to many great new GM and Ford products (primarily) American-made no longer means awful or even “uncool-looking.”
In Ann Arbor, for example, dealers are sending new cars off at 60% off sticker. This means you could snap up the phenomenal Pontiac G8 GXP, the Solstice Coupe the Chevrolet Malibu and a range of Chrysler products–including most of their SRT-8 Series cars with Mercedes suspensions, for incredible deals.
You might also shop for the in-demand cars like the new Ford Fusion hybrid (it just beat ALL other imported makes in Motor Trend). This Ford Fusion, when you see it in the metal, is fantastically re-designed.
The Grooviest Car of All-Time
On a completely different note, the British magazine Octane has recently listed the 25 Coolest Cars of All-Time. Interesting that while we are promoting Jaguars on groovyman.com, this great magazine is thinking right up our alley (such phrasing!). The Coolest-Ever Car was the Jaguar XKSS. It was, literally, a LeMans-winning race car that you could buy from the factory minus the rear wind-vane and a few other deleted parts.
Octane chose the XKSS for precisely this reason–that the XKSS was the last pure-bred car one could buy directly from a manufacturer. It was not the most expensive, fastest, or most beautiful ride, but it was, simply the best race car of the 1950s. You could buy one on Sunday and drive it to the Farmers market on Monday. Steven McQueen (pictured) did just that. Any questions?
