The adventures of Joey and Denny, which begin with the description of a drive-by shooting that tears up Denny's living room (and one of his young sons), embrace car chases, gun fights, torture, mutilation, a mean pimp, a victimized whore, a psycho killer and illicit sex, both naughty and nice.
"With over 200,000 Zipcar members now in London, we are already seeing Londoners embracing car sharing rather than car owning in growing numbers.
The digitally distracted consumer, meantime, may be happy to embrace cars that can drive themselves, freeing the driver to concentrate on Facebook, Twitter or whatever social media may be prevalent when self-driving technologies mature in a decade or so.
So the immediate question is this: Will enough Americans embrace cars sized and powered for a basic function -- navigating congested urban traffic with one or two people on board -- without insisting on capabilities they will seldom if ever use, like cross-country range and trailer-towing capacity?
Judging by the results of Saturday's event, it's an idea that is likely to find many supporters, but whose specific scheme is likely to be an evolving process of in terms of how the city tries embrace car-free solutions.
Besides the cost benefits, consumers who have embraced the car seem to enjoy being pioneers without the hefty premium that typically comes with being an early adopter.
He enthusiastically embraced the car company bailout that had been so unpopular when he had first done it.
Buyers and lessees of the purely electric hatchback have high expectations, Mr. Palmer said, and he conceded that Nissan was "pretty lousy" at communicating with the early adopters who so enthusiastically embraced the cars.
And most governments would prefer to be less dependent on imported oil: no country has embraced electric cars with more enthusiasm than Israel.Power steeringEncouraging take-up means shifting the overall cost of ownership to favour cleaner cars over ones powered by fossil fuels.
Car nuts, or enthusiasts over-attentive to raw numbers, may fault the new Miata's specs, and may not embrace a car that offers less motor muscle than its predecessor.
