yea, but then i mean you gotta think of it this way, he sits in traffic every day hardly ever going out of first gear on a constant basis....if you almost 60 still driving a stick ans your like 6'3 it can get old after a while. he just wanted somethin automatic with room and a good sound system and apparently the HHR had all those characteristics. i was like WTF when he wanted to get one too. but i guess it will grow on me. my parents call it an ambulance. i call it the new age ghost buster mobile.