Out of Your Element!
Member the Honda Element? I miss the Honda Element.
On the one hand, I wish Honda would bring back the Element. It was such a funky vehicle. Part SUV, Part Cargo Van. Chunky mid-2000s car design that somehow evoked Hummer and Dodge Grand Caravan with just a hint of Jeep Wrangler before the.... Jeepening.
It had personality, you know? Not like the copy-paste SUVs of our time. Just look at it.
But on the other hand, I know if they brought it back, the dillweeds from Marketing would ruin it.
They would entirely forego their original market:
College softball players having a raucous birthday party at the bowling alley
Your dad, who work in land surveying
Alice from Accounts Payable (for some reason)
An entire nation of frumpy 20-something dudes who are taking a break from watching Family Guy reruns on Adult Swim to go get some Taco Bell at 2AM.
... and also Martians than observe kashrut ;-)
Instead, they would focus all their energies to appealing to the most annoying human beings on the planet: Jeeple.
You know... Jeeple?
The Marketing schmucks did it to the Ford Bronco, and they'll do it again. You can barely tell them apart!
And like, I get it, there's only so many ways a car can be shaped, but don't tell me that Ford wasn't trying to go after jeeple (or worse, wannabe-jeeple) money.
Do you really want to see them massacre the Element? No way. I'd rather it remain a fun little oddity of the past than watch it become an emotional support vehicle in the present.
