We did, and were very satisfied.

Still the BEST car-salesperson approach: We walked onto the lot. Within 3 minutes of actively poking around, a salesman came out, introduced himself, said “Take your time, feel free to look around, if you need anything, just wave to me and I’ll come over.” We felt acknowledged and un-pressured. When it *was* time to…

I think that in most working environments, it would go like this:

Hans sat in his garage. It was that brief lovely moment in the winter afternoon where the sunlight came in the side window. He smiled a little; the Maine weather reminded him of home.
His red paint gleamed with the glow of a fresh wax. His leather was supple and smooth and flawless. Even his tiny shiny Turbo badge…

That's something I've never heard. What do you find uncomfortable?

OR RACE IT BACK!

*sigh* GeahUnit, you're out of your depth.

Actually, stuff like this makes me want to keep doing them! :)

It's Quattro if you've anthropomorphized a vehicle and are using Quattro as a name (see the link above). It's also acceptable to capitalize it to irritate Internet pedants. ;)

A minivan. It doesn't really matter which one, but I'll go with the Chrysler Town & Country because it has the easy-to-navigate UConnect system. And if you're just sitting there anyway, you'll probably want to listen to some music. You've got plenty of room and pockets and cubbies for stuff - food, drink, extra…

Reinhold hated going to the doctor. Maybe if he ignored it, it would go away.

One of Reinhold's first memories was the crossing to America. It was rough and foggy, and his Uncle Quattro had been there for him. Quattro with the V8. Quattro had been overseas for a procedure and was ready to return. Reinhold had never tasted American tarmac. And then they reached the port. Quattro's owner pick…

That's stinkin' awesome.

I think that would go over badly - SUV drivers would be upset that their thin veil of machismo had been pulled away.

That's awesome. The SUV we went from was the Hyundai Veracruz. It was sumptuously luxurious but weirdly tiny - with the convertible car seats correctly mounted in the back and the front seats forward enough to give them room, I had an inch from my knees to the dashboard.

I think that this just means that nobody in Marketing has really stepped up to the challenge. I should have clarified - there's no fantasy for the minivan....yet. COME ON, marketing people! There's gotta be something you can come up with.

Well, Chrysler, the originator of the minivan, would like you to know that the minivan is not quite dead yet. Sergio Marchionne announced that Chrysler is currently investing $2 billion into its next generation minivan and the retooling of the Windsor Assembly Plant.

It's a thing I do sometimes where I anthropomorphize the cars being sold on NPOCP.

Heinrich rumbled quietly onto the showroom floor. The vibrations made a pen fall off a salesperson's desk, two people flush with arousal, and one poor guy rush to the toilet. (He would never eat Mexican again) His engine stopped, and the only sound in the immaculate picture area was the quiet ticking of cooling metal.

"Doc! Doc! What about the rear visibility? We can't see anything out the back of this thing!"
"Where we're going, Marty, we don't need rear visibility"