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...today's style-conscious young American. That customer lives at the end of a bumpy, uphill road--as shown by the early response to Honda's Element. A boxy, SUV-like vehicle launched last year, the Element is what Honda calls a "dorm room on wheels." It was designed to appeal to young drivers who want to pile in gear and friends; TV ads show sexy college-age kids taking it to the beach and partying beside it. It's an alluring image--especially, it turns out, if your hair's thinning, you're hankering to recapture the feel...
...must smell this one!" exclaims maitre fromager and affineur Daphne Zepos, inhaling deeply from a pungent wheel of Tomme au Marc cheese. "It smells like a walk in the forest in October...
Prime example: 2 Fast 2 Furious, sequel to the 2001 hit. It puts the viewer behind the wheel of souped-up cars like a Nissan Skyline and a Yenko Camaro, both juiced with NOS--a nitrous oxide injection system--that instantly multiplies their speed as if they're toddlers on sugar. These cars seem to double as aircraft. When goosed by an ace driver, the Skyline vaults across a yawning drawbridge, and the Yenko flies across the water to crash-land on the upper deck of the bad guy's yacht. 2F2F has a bit of plot about...
...real, directors also want stars to do some of their own stunt work. A few old icons did. Steve McQueen, a true car nut, often took the wheel in Bullitt and Le Mans. But most actors have taken more lessons at the Pasadena Playhouse than at the Richard Petty Driving Experience. On the Hollywood Homicide shoot, Hartnett fouled up a chase by crashing into a fake police car. Mos Def, a Brooklyn native who co-stars in The Italian Job, didn't even have a driver's license. Mark Wahlberg, the film's lead, threw up five minutes into driving...
...obsessions. (The only genuinely sexual moment in 2F2F is when two new cars are unveiled for Walker and Tyrese. Their eyes bug out as if Britney and Halle had just stripped for them.) Car-movie heroes are slaves of auto eroticism, guys playing with their stick shifts. Behind the wheel, man is again the primal hunter, pursuing the woolly mammoth 50 yards ahead, fulfilling his destiny...