The Matrix is, in my experience, an "assertive female" car. These mystical creatures (the females, not the Matrixes) hate nothing more than to be characterized or generalized, so each of these drivers believe that their Matrix is the universe's sole "ironic" strong female Matrix.

Stay with me.

Strong females, while more capable than regular females in some ways, (drink beer at the bar, can take their own trash out) do not have superfemale driving skills.

If you were to tell one of them this, you would likely get a lecture about equality, or your phone number deleted, but it's true.

Anyways, the ability to parallel park is inversely proportional to the number of Ani DiFranco records you have --- everyone knows that. This makes strong women, men who wear tight jeans, and university professors under 45 terrible at parallel parking. All of these people drive Matrixes.

I'm glad we had this conversation

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I had no idea Toyota owners as a group were such badasses.

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No love for the mil-spec poser these days.

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Especially given that, in spite of their explanation, their methodology is obviously crap (i.e., the grouping of H2s and H3s but the distinction between Scion and Chevy models, etc.).

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H2 could be a personality thing, or possibly a "I parked on the curb because I can't judge the size of my vehicle through these gunslot windows" issue. Or a combination.

Merc is probably an entitlement thing. Note both of them are the monster 6.2 V8 models. Compared to them, paying a ticket is nothing.

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So I assume that it's tickets given per registered vehicle. But then, it would just be a measure of which vehicles are more likely to be in urban areas.

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Also, why did they split the AMG CLK/CLS and not the Hummer H2 and H3? That seems a bit fishy to me.

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