March 31, 2005
Happy 200K Day!! (sorry I missed it ...)
Reaching 200K in a car is a magical moment. Unfortunately, as I've experienced twice now myself, it's also an easy moment to miss. I think that car makers should make it more obvious when you reach this milestone and give you the reason and means to celebrate. With the advent of "carputers" and On Star, it should make it easy. Some ideas:
- Someone from car HQ calls you up and gives you a notification that the magical moment is there (kind of boring). Maybe they sing "Happy Birthday"?
- A small explosive releases a shower of confetti from the head liner
- A jack-in-the-box doll pops out from the dash and screams, "HAPPY 200K!"
- Dash board printer ejects a coupon good for a free ice cream cone and oil change at the dealer
- A greeting card get printed by the dashboard printer
- Dashboard cooler opens up and ejects a cold bottle of champagne with glasses
I'm kind of surprised there aren't more people taking pictures of their dashboards with 200K
p.s. if I haven't already mentioned it to you personally, I'd like to mention now impersonally that my favorite blog these days is Girls Are Pretty, from which I kind of took the "Happy ... Day" format. Yesterday's entry was even about cars!
Posted by mary at 10:16 AM | Comments (2)