When you're young and haven't driven much of anything yet, it makes sense to overcompensate by learning as many facts and figures as you can. Driving cars is expensive, but reading first drives, reviews, comparison tests, and anything else you can find on ad-supported sites is basically free. Even as an adult, it can be easy to get caught up in which car has the best specs for the money. But does that always matter?
To make the 7:20 morning flight to Memphis, you get up with the garbage men. On the morning in February that we flew south, it was zero degrees and snarling in Detroit. Driving to the airport in a darkness illuminated intermittently by flashbulb-like bursts of white powder whipping across the windshield, the radio coughed up two new items. First, remaining outdoors this morning for nine minutes would most likely cause the delicate, lacy membranes of your sinuses to freeze over, solid. Second, Lee Iacocca has moved to Palm Springs.
