DAN NEIL: LUTHERAN-OBSESSED

Dan Neil, the Los Angeles Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning automobile critic, gets off a nice dig at us Lutherans in today’s review of the Volvo C70 convertible:

To the point, then: There is something inexpressibly illicit about a convertible Volvo, a Nordic brand that has spent much of its history buttoned up to the chin, literally and figuratively (the sleek, be-finned Frua/Ghia-designed P1800 of the 1960s being the exception that proves the rule). Just consider the ideography of the company badge, the grille with the left-to-right slash across it, so much like the forbidding red circle-and-slash symbol. How Lutheran can you get?

This mark the second time in recent months Neil has skewered Lutherans in a car review. (See details here.) Bad form, Daniel. Surely you know that in North Carolina we’re known as “the wet Christians”? I mean, you have to know that.