Question of the Day: Which Car Do You Want To Be Buried In?

By Jonny Lieberman
March 27, 2008 -

Us car-journo types spill a lot of ink writing about interiors. Interiors? Yeah. You could have an otherwise perfectly fine vehicle let down by crap plastics and more crap plastics. Ford's Mustang comes to mind. In fact, I have zero interest in the new Challenger because of the sub-bargain-basement innards. Looking at the photos reminds me of Chrysler's Sebring, the most miserable modern vehicle I've ever experienced. My point? Interiors matter. In fact, some are so good that I want to spend eternity in them. But which one? Audis always get tossed around when kick-ass insides are discussed. No thank you. Too dark, too much metal and too engineered. That basically rules out anything from Germany. No one wants to be wrapped in a computer forever. What about jolly old England. Nice, indeed, but British cars pose two problems. One, they're too stuffy. Even though you're dead, you still want to breathe. Two, they're too German. If you've ever found yourself in a Bentley GT you were no doubt aghast at the Passat gear lever. This leaves only one country — Italy. And currently, only one car. Bury me in the Maserati Quattroporte Executive GT. You?

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TexasAg03 :
March 27th, 2008 at 10:38 pm

I want to be cremated as well. Therefore, put my ashes in the passenger seat of a Ferrari Enzo with an owner who actually drives the thing like it is intended.

My charred remains will know such fun…
italianstallion :
March 27th, 2008 at 10:39 pm

it may very well be my first generation scion xb.

i can’t find anything to replace it that matches its unbelievable fuel economy, incredible utility and reasonable fun-to-drive quotient (it’s a manual). and it’ll run forever.

the downside is that it looks like the maid’s car, and that its absence of adequate safety equipment may actually lead to my untimely demise.
Samir Syed :
March 27th, 2008 at 11:29 pm

A 1979 Pontiac Acadian. To come full circle.
Johnster :
March 28th, 2008 at 1:56 am

My first reaction was that I wouldn’t mind having my ashes placed in the ashtray of a ‘63 Riviera, but gee, I wouldn’t want to bury a perfectly good car when someone else could be DRIVING it.

A letterwriter to Ann Landers told about sprinkling the ashes of her late auto-loving father among rows of parked new cars sitting on the lot at several auto dealer. (I hope they were decent auto dealerships. I’m a snob and I wouldn’t want to sprinkled at, say, a Kia dealer.)

The best memorial service for an autophile that I ever heard of was the one for the late Len Frank, who briefly worked for Motor Trend magazine, ran an Alfa Romeo dealership and the local Alfa Romeo drivers club, and hosted “The Car Show” on the radical left-wing Pacifica radio station, KPFK in Los Angeles.

According to the website at lacar.com:

“When he passed away in 1996, his friends and family held his memorial service at Willow Springs Raceway. In a ceremony that would have pleased Len, his ashes were released through the sunroof of a Porsche on the raceway’s famed Turn Nine.”
jurisb :
March 28th, 2008 at 3:22 am

I better stay alive in Yugo Zastava nightmare, than die with a chick in Maserati deathporte. But , today i am cute, young and innocent, and when my life enters indian Summer after some 70 years, And i will be just cute, and innocent but not young I would like to have a ride of my life in Corvette Z018 with an interior that at last has fit and finish and texture. I would like to put on a blue-violet-ray ,player put some music from Sarah Brightman, mash the throttle near Veyron apocalyptic speeds and run of the cliff into the sea. I hope I don`t forget to take out the airbag fuse. Damn, I should stick a note on the windshield. And then I wake up in a hospital with half the body gone, with a pale nurse close to swooning staring at me, and a priest with a Bible silently whispering some words of wisdom to himself. Damn, forgot to stick the note….
shaker :
March 28th, 2008 at 6:51 am

A 2075 Chevy Volt Mark VII…

Fusion powered, reanimated T-Rex Leather interior, “I-Orgasmatron” interface.

In the red dust of Mars.

(I’m 53)

jurisb: lol :-)
jimh :
March 28th, 2008 at 7:42 am

A MINI Cooper S. One of the earlier supercharged ones, preferrably one with all the PA who works in meja friendly options.

If I’m going I’m taking one of those vile little buzz boxes with me.
mykeliam :
March 28th, 2008 at 8:00 am

Bury me in a Bugatti Veyron with the Hermes leather please.
Or else in my 1976 Mercury Bobcat with the four speed stick (how I loved that car!!)
John R :
March 28th, 2008 at 8:14 am

I’m a fan. R34 Skyline GT-R Z-tune.
salokj :
March 28th, 2008 at 8:21 am

It’s been done before, but a Cadillac Seville…Of course!