Is you car aloof?

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I've never really anthropomorphised vehicles.
Always thought it strange that people would refer to vehicles using gender-specific pronouns and ascribe human qualities to them.

My vehicle is a second generation Chrylser minivan. It might not be the most practical option from a fuel efficiency perspective since I'm single (though I don't think 26 mpg highway is too bad), but on the plus side I have plenty of room for cargo when the benches are removed, I can plow through snowdrifts that cars get stuck in, and for the most part it's been very reliable with little maintenance required.

One of the things I like most about it is that the interior is roomy and doesn't have a shifter and console built into the floor between the front seats (unlike practically all newer cars).

finally somebody else besides me, that likes column shifters

For one, it makes much more sense to me.
Why build out from the dashboard (with cheap plastic that breaks easily) just to put in the shifter, one or two little compartments, and a couple of cup holders (which are often blocked by, or in the way of, the shifter)?

They're making vehicles with electronic shifters now. They could put them literally anywhere inside the vehicle.
Some Lincolns I've driven just have a series of buttons to the right of the steering wheel labeled P, R, N, D, and S.

To me it seems the quality of vehicles has gone down significantly just from the early nineties.
So many things seem designed to break so that you have to buy replacement part.

And don't get me started on the problems with all the systems they're adding to cars now (cross-traffic sensor, backup sensor, collision avoidance system, blind spot detection sensor, and the list goes on).

I wouldn't describe my car as aloof. It's exactly the same as lots of other cars out there, I like it that way.
It's practical, comfortable, easy to drive and park. What more could I ask for?

they're in their baroque stage now, the car makers and parts makers [and taxi fleets] know their time is limited, because self-driving cars are gonna wreck their business model within 20 years. our descendants will not generally own their own private vehicle, but will call one up on their smart watch or whatever smart deal they have 20 years in the future- and within minutes it will arrive wherever they are at, they will hop in and it will take them where they need to go- then after dropping them off will head straight to the next fella needing a ride. with [according to recent think-tanks studies] 90% fewer auto accidents there will be far less need for replacement parts and replacement cars.

Guess I better stay in shape then, because I'll be riding my bicycle a lot more.
No way I'm going to ride in a car that drives itself; not even if it has manual override.
That is literally my worst nightmare. Well, aside from being hunted by militaristic androids.

Out of curiosity though, do you know how that would work if someone wanted to travel from Alaska to Florida by land?

there will still be POVs being made but a lot fewer of them. so I believe one still will be able to travel from Alaska to florida by land but chances are they will have to have deep pockets, or do it on pedal power or on foot. the powers that be will by then be doing what it can to encourage the people to use the most efficient forms of transport, namely mass transit [planes, trains, buses] for areas outside of the cities, with self-driving rent-a-cars for city transport augmenting buses. of course this is all contingent on mankind not blowing himself up before then. I'm not holding my breath.

Yeah my car is so aloof, even I cannot see it...in other words I don't have one, but it would be cooler if people actually belived it was really just invisible.

My car is a heavy drinker. I am not. It only gets 19 mpg.

It's a rare version of a common car: Ford Explorers are common as dirt, but 99.9 percent of them seem to be the four door variety, and only one in a thousand seem to be the two door kind that I drive. So does that mean that I a am a rare variant of a common type of person? Or maybe...an unusual person with the common touch?Dunno.

if you don't mind, what year is the vehicle?

2001

Just tell 'em that "my car prefers to keep an extremely low profile!".

I guess I am not extreme enough in personality to anthropomorphize my parking decisions one way nor the other.

When I arrive at work (at various retail stores to count their inventory) my car is 'aloof' because I park away from the store so as to not interfere with the store's customer parking. When I get back home I try to get the closest spot to my apartment door as I can, which puts me in the thick of the crowd of parked cars belonging to other residents. So in the mourning my car is aloof, and in the evening my car is gregarious.

I think if I had an AMC Pacer, it would be very gregarious

Well, I named my car Carl. Get it. because the work "car" is in "Carl" and...I'll be quiet now.

But yeah. I named my Sebring Carl.

my car is named "car." I say to it, "car, don't fail me now!"