What's Wrong With This Picture: I Love SHO Tunes Edition

P71_CrownVic What can I say...I suck at winter snow driving. I suck at high speed driving in the rain. I sometimes misjudge turns and have to panic and hope I make it through. I even cut people off because I didn't see them in my blind spot. I like handicaps. In fact, most of the options on the modern car are really handicaps. Are you kidding me? From traction control to power steering to ABS to blind spot warning to...stop me please before I throw you to much. If I know how to drive well? What are you, Mario Andretti? Look, I have 4 kids and a wife. Sometimes I let them drive. But I am the one in the house who wears the Italian gloves and silk scarf. And I think Tiger really shops for the top equipment, whatever edge he can get...that is before he sold Buicks.

Paulie - Well said, except the Buick Rendezvous that Tiger used to shill was actually a pretty nice car, the practicality of the Aztek with a more consumer friendly face. Anyone could learn how to drive a RWD car with bald tires in the snow, but why would you? Cars, like anything else today, are about convenience. You don't really need A/C, you can always roll the windows down, and you don't need that CD player or iPod jack, everywhere has free radio stations, and who really needs heated seats when your good old 98.6 degree ass will warm that seat up in no time. Similarly its incredible that Boston Market stays in business when anyone with half a brain, a $5 cookbook, and an extra hour before dinner could recreate anything they make for half the price, or that people pay someone else to mow their lawn when a small investment in a couple sheep would have it neat and trim in perpetuity (plus, with the small additional expense of a spinning wheel and loom you won't have to pay all that extra to Walmart, Target, Macys, or Old Navy for your clothes). Everyone could learn to drive stick, to drive in the rain or snow, and to do a multitude of other things behind the wheel, but in the end most people don't want (and shouldn't have to) expend the time and effort to do those things when modern solutions exist for those problems. The average car buyer doesn't want to deal with the hassle of switching out summer tires for winter, or having to drive completely differently just because there is some snow on the road. FWD and AWD make it so that the car can be used just like any other appliance, a way to get from point a to point b with little extra thought having to go into it.

Sajeev I have only used this sight once when purchasing and it was pretty nice. It was still a lot of bull with the dealer, but you get pretty close. Here, and I predict will soon be even less, the SHO with pretty much what I want, comes in around 36K. That's a nice 36K car. http://cars.overstock.com/configurator.html?makeId=2229&modelId=354&upfrontPricing=Y