For those who wish they could write

John Phillips writing in Car and Driver April 2010:

“Some look at things that are and ask, ‘Why?’ I dream of things that never were and ask, ‘Why this?’”

Describing the body of the Pontiac Aztec: “A body that resembles Janis Joplin’s during her most devoted heroin years.”

Or the Dodge Shadow: “Who would have thought that someone could create a car guaranteed to make your wife shout, ‘Wow, my mother was right!’”

Of the cockpit smell in a Hyundai Pony: “A curious mixture of wet dog, WD-40, and liquid Maalox.”