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Or at least what I find funny is you drove a Volvo for 10 years, yet think a Minivan is too middle class. That's hilarious.
For God's sake nothing screams middle class crunchy like a Volvo, unless it's riding a SUB.
You should have gone with the minivan with better gas mileage and swallowed your self image, At least that way your environmentalist creed would still be intact.