Double Take

Cars that require a double take are my favorite. The one's no one would suspect are anything special. It's like being in a clique in high school, or the member of an ultra secretive society. We get it, but almost more importantly is the fact that others don't.  Like it or not, driving a car is like walking around, holding a giant sign. These signs usually say slightly different things to different people, but the message is usually pretty clear. That's why Lexus and Toyota are separate brands. However sometimes these signs are written in code, cleverly disguised to look like something else. "I drive a beater from the early 90's" the sign may read, but what it actually says is "I love cars enough to seek out the best fox body Mustang ever built." Most of us can't read the sign at just a glance, but sometimes there's enough there to do a double take and every now and then the second reading says "hello, you're one of us."