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Sure, it’s a descendant of our mom’s station wagon used to bring us home from soccer practice in time to partake in a lovely crockpot or fondue dinner. But the station wagon has evolved over the years into a new species that is stylish and functional enough to meet our generation’s high standards.
While digging myself and the car out of five inches of snow with a kitchen spatula, I found that the front and rear defrosters work amazingly well. After running the defrost for a few minutes, an effortless swipe of my kitchen utensil (used only on my nicest Teflon pans) rids the windshield of snow and ice. I bet MacGyver hasn’t even thought of that one.
There’s no doubt that with its HEMI-powered engine the 2005 Dodge Magnum RT is marketed towards our male counterparts. It’s quite comical if you think about it: A man’s station wagon? Well, those guys are just now catching onto something us women folk have known for a very long time. Station wagons equal practicality. The Magnum is no exception.
Infiniti’s tagline for the QX56 is “Luxury on a Grand Scale.” To me that conjures up images of sailing a yacht through the warm Mediterranean, being served champagne and caviar by the deck boy. Can the Infiniti QX56 inject luxury into my real life where dining on peanut butter and honey is a more realistic expectation?
My job as household CEO is to search for the truth behind product marketing. This ranges from instant oatmeal that promises to hatch dinosaur eggs to shampoo that claims to make my hair curlier, straighter, shinier, easier to dry, thicker, fuller, blonder, etc. It’s a full time job just filtering the good from the bad, the true from the false. It makes my day when a product actually surpasses what it claims to do. This is the case with the 2005 Mercedes E320 4-Matic sedan.
I recently heard about a woman who had three children when she became pregnant with triplets. Her youngest was under 2 when the triplets were born. How does she take her family of three infants, three children and a husband anywhere? The Nissan Pathfinder Armada could be her answer.
I admit I try to do it all. I’m a wife and a stay-at home mom who squeezes in a career as an automotive journalist and business owner between diaper changes and play dates. I fantasize about escaping it all for a quiet weekend of R&R at a B&B. I can’t have that as much as I’d like, so I settle for a few moments of motorized meditation while my kids sleep in the car. Unfortunately, this isn’t possible in the all-new 2005 Saab 9-2X Aero.
My first impression of the Subaru Outback 3.0R L.L.Bean Edition is that it isn’t my mama’s station wagon. There’s no pea-green paint elegantly inlaid with wood paneling. And much to my disappointment, there isn’t a rear-facing jump seat in the cargo area (my favorite childhood spot for planning mischief).
Someone recently wrote to me griping that she’s too young to drive a minivan. Us Gen X-ers are growing up and having babies. To many of us, a minivan is what our mothers drove. Heck, my mother-in-law still drives one. We are too young to drive minivans — or are we?
When I hear “Jaguar,” I visualize driving to the ballet decked out in diamonds and a mink coat. How bad could it be living that fantasy for a while?
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