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05-10-2009, 01:55 PM
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/jalopnik/2009/05/Vanden_Plas_Hoarding.jpgYou know how your friends all laugh at you because you can't bring yourself to get rid of that rattly-ass, decades-old junker you love so deeply? You're just a slave to your hormones, buddy!
That's what Times Of London writer Anjana Ahuja tells us, quoting Professor Paul Zak of Claremont Graduate University; it's all about the oxytocin, also known as the "trust hormone." It turns out that one's attachment to an inanimate object- say, an early-60s Vanden Plas Princess 1300 (http://www.aronline.co.uk/index.htm?vandenindexf.htm), for example- can trigger a release of oxytocin… and, next thing you know, you can't bring yourself to get rid of a car that breaks down approximately once every two months. Ms. Ahuja, however, triumphed over her body chemistry and ditched her Vanden Plas (http://jalopnik.com/tag/vanden-plas/) for… no, we can't say it. It's just too painful. One of these things (http://jalopnik.com/121064/ugly-champ-dissent-le-blog-auto-on-the-virtues-of-the-multipla).
So let's get this straight: you get rid of a seriously cool example of classic British coachbuilding- to which you've given an affectionate name and everything- and you replace it with a Fiat Multipla? The horror! We think Ms. Ahuja needs to start mainlining oxytocin and stockpiling Humber Sceptres!
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So let's get this straight: you get rid of a seriously cool example of classic British coachbuilding- to which you've given an affectionate name and everything- and you replace it with a Fiat Multipla? The horror! We think Ms. Ahuja needs to start mainlining oxytocin and stockpiling Humber Sceptres!
[Times Of London] (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/article6180634.ece)
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