Tuesday, April 02, 2013

Random Musing...

The Subie is the "L" trim variant and is all-wheel drive, so there's a little badge on the back that reads "L-AWD".

I want them to come out with a hybrid variant so I can buy an "L-AWD-e" badge.


Thank you! I'll be here all week. Try the veal.

25 comments:

stevierayv said...

I see what you did there

HerrBGone said...

I've always thought that the Toyota Highlander logo needed a sword...

BGMiller said...

There's an older gentleman around here that drives a Mercury Mariner.

He's pried the R off though.
And Right above it now has an EGA.

Seems the right age for a Korea vet but I haven't managed to catch him to ask yet.

BGM

Anonymous said...

I thought you were going L-AWD-og

Will Brown said...

Nice to read that you at least are much improved.

taylor said...

Be honest Tam, how big of a consideration was it in the buying decision that the badge on the car made you think of a lady in a southern-gentry type accent saying "Lawd", as in "Lawd, you are skin and bones missy. You gonna waste away if you keep eatin like that!"

Sklutch said...

Enough intellectuals purchase Subaru that I'm sure somewhere is a sticker that says "Summa cum " that fits in front of "L-AWD".

Of course, that was a lot funnier when it was in my head.

Too bad, no give-backs!

God, Gals, Guns, Grub said...

(rim shot on the snare drum for you)

Dann in Ohio

MSgt B said...

You'd fit right in down here in Bama.

Aesop said...

So I'ma figure that when they make a zero-emissions ultra-green machine, it'll be the
O L-AWDe.

Sorry Miss Scarlett, but I dazzn't know nuthin, 'bout birthin' no hybrids.

And out of a healthy respect for the velocity of thrown fruit, we will not discuss the nomenclature when one of them impacts one of the local fauna of the Bambi species.

Anonymous said...

Apparently, I'm the only one bewildered at how long Toyota has kept the "Toyota Racing Development" moniker without realizing what TRD sounds like when pronounced as a word.

-Drifter

Stuart the Viking said...

A "church" started up in a warehouse not far from my home. The "Congregation of the Great Conception" CGC (or something simular). They put a bunch of those cheap printed signs about that said merely "CGC" in big letters. That lasted until someone finally figured out that when turned sideways, it looked like a stylized pic of a dude wanking.

I don't see any signs anymore, so they are probably gone now. I never bothered to actually drive in to see which warehouse they were in or anything so I don't know. Besides, warehouses generally have a serious lack of lightning protection for ME to go near a CHURCH.

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Douglas2 said...

Ahem:
http://www.jcwhitney.com/chrome-letters-andamp-numbers/p2018111.jcwx

On the TRD Toyota thing, when I lived in la belle province, a work colleague owned an MR2 modified with all sorts of TRD stuff.
When you say out the letters of MR2 in French, it sounds like the epithet that Captain Picard was known for.

Still doesn't beat Mitsubishi, when I moved to the UK their two top selling models were the Colt and the Starion.

Anonymous said...

Yes, and if you spell it backwards it says

U-R-A-BUS.

Phssthpok said...

And of course my first thought went directly to:

www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=AjPBp6DOwgU#t=21s

Anonymous said...

It's funny I keep hearing about how Subaru's are especially liked by -insert population subgroup here - (gays, greenies, intellectuals, etc...)

Yet somehow all the people I know who drive them are not particularly identifiable by any of those subgroups. Just people who wanted a medium sized station wagon that was reliable, and liked AWD.

And _universally_ they dislike the the latest models, which I find amusing.

Ed said...

It could be worse. You could be driving a KIA (Killed In Action).

Anonymous said...

Ain't nobody got time for that

Justthisguy said...

As I wrote in comments to previous posts here, I think the older Subies are right cool, on aesthetic and gearhead grounds, both.

OT, for Tam. Why are you so seemingly annoyed at me, Ma'am? IIRC, I don't think I've ever expressed any hostility at you on your blog here, or anywhere else on the web.

Tam said...

Mr. ThisGuy,

1) There is an email address in the right sidebar that one may use for questions of this type.

2) But since you elected to drop trou in a public comment thread: While I may be annoyed at the occasional thing you say, I do not know you well enough to be annoyed with you, per se. But when I am, you will goddam well know it, and you will goddam well know why.

Angus said...

I always wanted to buy an old Mustang and re-arrange the letters on the trunk without the M and the T.

Justthisguy said...

Tam, if you are not annoyed at me, why did you publicly say on this here very blog of yours that I should stay out of pistol shot range of you, or words to that effect?

It's no skin off my nose, (sorry about that), being pretty sure that we'll probably never meet in real life, but I do like to be on friendly cordial terms with my internet correspondents.

Tam said...

Are you obtuse? Or deliberately trying to pick a fight?

Or were you unable to read my remark about the email address because I accidentally typed it in invisible ink or something? This commenst section is not here to assuage your feelings or serve as your private Agony Aunt column out in public.

Anonymous said...

This is the internet. You don't need to wait for a new model.

http://emblemart.com/

Justthisguy said...

Alright, Ma'am, next time I get annoyed at you, I'll send you an email.

And, no, there is no slightest chance that I will ever be within pistol shot of you, or of anybody else in Indiana. Living in Southern Flarduh as I have to do, I have learned more than I wanted to know about Midwesterners.