The Rake Magazine

There is a term they bounce around the suburbs called "Grocery Getter." This usually refers to the egregious waste of fuel smallish women (primarily) expend on driving large SUVs to the grocery store.

But not all women drive monster trucks to market. Some actually drive sensible vehicles to far better places like the Organic Farmer's Market on Saturday mornings in Minneapolis. You may consider it fighting commonism before brunch. In fact, why not have Alex Hoag--Mill City Market "driver" so to speak--explain just how cool this place is. (With husband Chuck to add some context.)

Finally, allow me to share three vehicles that will make the drive to and from this market even better:

1) A nice little BMW X3

2) A more robust Mercedes R-350

3) The Mercedes E-class wagon. In AMG trim this is the the world's fastest grocery getter. Eats tires for lunch, too.

4&5) I am also very high on the latest Mazda CX-series particularly the CX-7 in a nice shade of really, really dark black.) And I've blogged about the 3-Series (in Mazdaspeed trim only), which is an innovative smaller car with room enough to store, if not quite swallow, a weeks worth of produce (organic food is usually smaller in size.)

I came up with a rule, of sorts, that I would refrain from talking about cars on Sunday. But heh, I am also a modernist (at times) and modernists don't follow every rule (even their own).

Modernism (and schmodernism) aside, here's another way of looking at it. What's a man to do when he spots a Maserati GranSport in the parking lot of a shopping mall? Well then you just have to break your own rules and bring it to your readers.

I trust you will agree.*

FILM NOTES: One of only two Maserati GT Gransports in Minneapolis (I keep calling it a Ferrari).