MotorPunk October 2013 | Page 17

Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas Pt.1 | expect, the V6 is slow and it changes direction as gingerly as John Prescott leaving a buffet table with plates full of scotch eggs in each hand. It has an electric roof, huge cupholders, an automatic box with manual over-ride (that somehow makes it worse) and very good air conditioning. There’s a menu on the dash offering ‘track apps’, you can record 0-60 mph and ¼ mile times. It’s no VBox. Middle America aspires to this car, so I’m told and as a roadtrip motor it makes perfect sense, even if this roadtrip itself doesn’t make any sense. Yet. ...continues next month 17