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<\/a><\/p>\nCars are all flawed in one way or another \u2013 but aren’t these more interesting than the accomplished alternatives?<\/p>\n
Just as I watched the last episode of Reacher and feared my television well was running dry, a new series of Bosch: Legacy arrived to make going to the gym less boring.<\/p>\n
So begins another series in which the star bounds around saving the day, breaking a few rules\/laws\/bones as necessary, and ultimately gets paid badly or not at all for their trouble.<\/p>\n
I wondered if it was just people like me who were drawn to this sort of story, but whether it\u2019s Buffy or Ludwig, Harry Potter or Stranger Things, plus about eleventy-dozen superhero films, the theme is the same.<\/p>\n
See also basically everything from The Littlest Hobo to James Bond. It\u2019s a massively popular genre. Fact is, loads of us like a central character who\u2019s not perfect but who knows what it takes to get\u00a0things done and, once it\u2019s all over, gets\u00a0hardly any recognition.<\/p>\n
Is this because it\u2019s how we see, or would like to see, ourselves? Does it reflect our own personalities, even if our struggles are against jobsworths, unfair parking fines and computers saying no, rather than criminal masterminds?\u00a0(I mean, same difference, right?)<\/p>\n
And if that\u2019s the case, I wonder whether that\u2019s why, as many of us do, I find myself drawn to a certain kind of car: something a bit quirky, made by an underdog, probably not the best car around but, for all its failings, something with charm. A car with noble intentions, if such a thing is possible.<\/p>\n
At the moment, I\u2019m going through a phase of being asked what good cars I\u2019ve driven recently. There have been a number of very respectable, very efficient and extremely effective ones.<\/p>\n
And when it comes to the moment of answering, I often can\u2019t remember a single one of them. I can, though, remember most of the miles I\u2019ve driven in, say, a Noble M600<\/a>, an Ineos Grenadier<\/a> or a Morgan<\/a>. Even a Citro\u00ebn Ami<\/a>. Or my own Audi\u00a0A2<\/a> or old Land Rover Defender<\/a>.<\/p>\n These cars are all flawed or compromised\u00a0in some way or another (within reason: they haven\u2019t murdered anyone for the greater good), but I find them more compelling than the squeaky clean, goody two-shoes, far more accomplished alternatives. Steve Cropley\u2019s new Jeep Wrangler<\/a>\u00a0is another case in point.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t just mean it\u2019s possible to like bad cars. It is, of course, but that\u2019s a different conversation that usually involves nostalgia. What I mean is that there\u2019s an attraction to the underappreciated, to a character that\u2019s trying\u00a0to do a good thing against difficult odds.<\/p>\n