{"id":388,"date":"2009-11-24T05:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T05:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verastic.com.s96953.gridserver.com\/site\/?p=388"},"modified":"2009-11-24T05:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T05:14:00","slug":"vehicular-crushes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/social\/vehicular-crushes.html","title":{"rendered":"Vehicular Crushes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anyone that has been reading my blog and\/or <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.veraezimora.blogspot.com\/\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"color:#FF0000;\">articles<\/span><\/a><\/b> probably knows that I have a certain &#8211; let&#8217;s call not call it <i>obsession<\/i> &#8211; with Range Rovers, but what no one knows is that the Range Rover is actually my second vehicular crush.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">My first vehicular crush is the Beetle Bug (Volks Wagen Beetle).  I started liking it when I was about five or six years old, thanks to Dad.  He gave me a key.  I still don&#8217;t know what  that key was for.  I now suspect that it was a key to an old car he no longer had.  But Dad gave me a key and told me that it was the key to my Bug.  I guarded that key with everything I had.  It never did occur to me that it was impossible to have a key without actually <i>owning<\/i> the car.  Oh, the gullibility of a child.  Since then, I have not quite gotten over it &#8211; the car, I mean.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Every chance he got, Dad asked, &#8220;Do you still have that key?&#8221;  And I would run and go get it from wherever I hid it.  And when I was <i>bad<\/i>, he even threatened not to give me my Bug (he made it sound as if the Bug was already parked behind the house or something).  I am ashamed to say that I believed this fable for a very long time.  I will not say the age, but I was almost an adolescent before I thought critically about my prospective Bug and realized it was not forthcoming &#8211; at least not from my Dad.  <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When I went to Carmax to buy my car, I badly, badly, <i>badly<\/i> wanted a Beetle bug.  But my budget was below the asking price for all the Bugs I found, so I came home with a Toyota Corolla instead.  I named him Fotunatus.  Don&#8217;t ask me why.  He&#8217;s been pretty good.  Has given me no problems.  But I digress.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">This is what I picture when I think of a Bug.  White is my favorite Bug color.  Green is my worst.  Yuck.  Picture courtesy of www.vwvortex.com<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vwvortex.com\/artman\/uploads\/003__scaled_600_072.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">I hear Volks Wagen is changing the design of the Beetle Bug.  This is what it&#8217;s going to look like.  I don&#8217;t know how I feel about this change.  Is it just me, or is it starting to look like a Mini Cooper?  Picture courtesy of www.autoworld.wordpress.com<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/autoworld.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/volkswagen-beetle-2010-renderings-img_1.jpg?w=509&amp;h=339\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I don&#8217;t know at what point I fell in love with the Range Rover.  I don&#8217;t even know which one I like better: Range Rover or Range Rover Sport?  I think the Range Rover Sport, but I&#8217;m not very sure of the difference.  I was almost going to test drive one of it, but I backed out.  What if I mistakenly put a dent in it?  I cannot even afford to buy one of its tires.  Perhaps, I should test drive it later, I decided.  I love the Range Rover Sport in charcoal black.  White or off-white won&#8217;t be so bad either.  <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Can you picture me in one of these babies?  I promise I&#8217;ll pop my hood if you need a ride.  Picture courtesy of www.rangerover.com<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.landroverusa.com\/us\/en\/Vehicles\/new-range-rover-sport\/photo-gallery-and-media\/exterior-photos_A9040096-AAAD-40B3-9586-E232FF4C1284.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Yeap, there goes the other color I love.  Picture courtesy of www.rangerover.com<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.landroverusa.com\/us\/en\/Vehicles\/new-range-rover-sport\/photo-gallery-and-media\/exterior-photos_380171C6-CF1B-4E9B-8AF1-984EE45DCFE9.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then the Toyota Rav-4 happened.  Now, this one took me by complete surprise because I used to <del>hate<\/del> dislike the Rav-4.  I now know that it&#8217;s the older models I had a problem with.  I still <del>hate<\/del> dislike the older ones, but the newer ones &#8230; wow.  Mr. Shoes thinks I&#8217;m a very girly girl for liking the Rav-4 and the Beetle Bug.  I happen to disagree!  The prettiest colors are in white (off white actually) and Magnetic Gray Metallic.  <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">This is the magnetic gray metallic color of the Rav-4.  Love it!  Picture courtesy of www.toyota.com<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.toyota.com\/img\/vehicles\/2010\/rav4\/gallery\/full\/ext_image5.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">This is what the front of the Rav-4 looks like.  Picture courtesy of www.toyota.com<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.toyota.com\/img\/vehicles\/2010\/rav4\/gallery\/full\/ext_image4.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I don&#8217;t have the money for any of these vehicles, but I do intend to get as many of them as I can&#8230; for FREE.  How?  Wouldn&#8217;t you like to know?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone that has been reading my blog and\/or articles probably knows that I have a certain &#8211; let&#8217;s call not call it obsession &#8211; with Range Rovers, but what no one knows is that the Range Rover is actually my second vehicular crush. My first vehicular crush is the Beetle Bug (Volks Wagen Beetle). 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