P.J. O'Rourke in good form, reviewing a Ford Flex for Car and Driver magazine. Thanks to Ann Althouse, who is guest-posting at Instapundit, for the find.
O'Rourke and his family did not get an owner's manual with their vehicle, but he turned that unfortunate lack into column fodder:
"There’s a large touch-screen computer console in the middle of the Flex’s dash. This will do anything from providing map directions to filing your federal income taxes. Or so we think. Our Flex came with lots of extras but no owner’s manual. It hadn’t been published yet. As a writer, I can understand how it takes time to craft that special style of car-manual prose and then send it to Mumbai and have it translated into Hindi by one class of sixth graders and translated back into English by another. But this meant that the extras on our Flex were mostly extra confusing. Figuring out trip mileage required more time at the computer than an average college freshman puts into her Facebook page during an entire school year."
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Ford is the last American car manufacturer. I wonder how long before the Looter-in-Chief and his jackals turn their attention to it for the (cough) good of The People.
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