I'm thinking that is a good category right there: function over form. Efficiency and getting the job done over trivial aesthetics. Which traditionally would be considered manly.

Free oil from Iraq, what a concept.  100 years of free oil.  Here's the thing, oil in the ground is free.  Be it in Iraq, Texas, the Gulf of Mexico, or where ever.  The cost is from getting it out of the ground and into a barrel.  Then is the cost of transporting the barrel from the place it was found to the place it is refined.  Refinement also adds to the cost.  More transportation, a bit of speculation and price gouging and you are paying nearly 3 bucks for a gallon of gasoline.  I'm not sure it would be possible for us to get any free oil from Iraq or any place else.  While the oil is in the ground it is free, once it gets into the barrel it ain't. I suppose if one had the rights to the oil in the ground without payment for it a slight reduction in the price of the final price of a gallon of gasoline could be realized, but I seriously doubt it.  This is not about take all their  oil away from them, that is too simple.  This is about having the crude oil to profit from.  This vastly important commodity is profited from in unimaginagle ways, just think about Enron for a while and you'll see what I mean.  People think it is about controlling a commodity.  What this really is about is controlling a cash flow.  Even if the US had all the oil in the world within its borders, the price of gasoline would still be the same as it is today, quite possibly higher.

"I would make it impossible for the covetous and avaricious to utterly impoverish the poor. The rich can take care of themselves."
^@^

chevy chase driving around with his dead grandmother strapped to the roof in a rain storm?

I can see that Phil.

Shaggin Wagon

is neuter an option. sorry. I have a problem with assessing gender to a machine. is it girly? no. I wouldn't say that kit is girly. though kit did possess some feminine qualities. like complaining when michael put him through the paces. kit always hated the turbo jump. not too "manly." but to hell with that. "manly" in that scenario is just plan stupid. michael was stupid, because he would yell something like yippee cawhee! before turbo jumping and getting his ass kicked by the forces, not to mention some possible whiplash.

television is responsible for a great amount of social and personal degeneration.

I met my source in a federal building underground garage, after spraying black paint on the surveillance cameras. He/she after viewing this footage states that this is an example of a manly car. As for the driver, well, he is not manly.