Jalopnik ran a list of the Top Ten Preppiest Cars today. While the article didn't do a whole lot for me, I thought I'd share its most redeeming feature.
(The FSJ came in at number 8, for anyone wanting the executive summary.)
It looks like they took the first 10 suggestions given to them and wrote some bs about them.
If I was on sweet 16 I would ask for a 1970 440 superbird.
So the old Grand Wagoneer is two of the ten? HUH?
It probably was one of the preppiest cars around, 25 or 30 years ago.
I grew up in Northwest Connecticut surrounded by preppies, and the girl in the first photo doesn't look very preppy to me. She looks like a cocktail waitress.
My mistake, sort of. Not used to a top ten list of eleven, in which position 1 is zero and position 4 is 3.No, just one. They did use it for both the lead photo and its position in the list, though.
I'm more used to rust belt preppies, and they don't drive rusted out beaters.I'd argue that there's still some truth to that, though - I know two people with Grand Wagoneers that they bought new in the late '80s / early '90s, and their kids (who were preppie then) have preppie kids of their own now who want the FSJs as their first cars.
No complaints here either. Preppy women aren't my cup of tea anyway!More specifically, a cocktail waitress at a marina. I'm not complaining, though