possible cup holder record

[Mike Arman]

Cup holders . . .


My 08 CLK 350 has two, one where it can be seen (just forward of the center console), and another 
one hidden under the sliding tambour door in the center console. Eating or drinking in it is to risk 
imminent death, so the cup holders don't get used. Finish your meal and your drink, and then we'll 
get in the car. Hey, they tell us not to drink and drive, right?


Dear Bride's 2015 Urabus Forester has about 300 . . . and they are all full of half-empty wax paper 
cups and napkins from every fast-food joint in the known universe. The car is a combination rolling 
snack bar and trash dumpster. I swear you can hear it sloshing when you brake or turn. Nobody who 
rides in it EVER picks up after themselves, the car now has ants (!) and I hear complaints that 
she's been bitten (again). I'm almost to the point where I won't ride in it. (Other than that, it is 
actually a pretty good car.)


I kind of like the Honda mommy-van that has rubber mats, a built-in vacuum cleaner, and you can just 
hose it out when it gets utterly intolerable. I hear next year it comes with a factory-installed 
trash-masher.


Car manufacturers love cup holders. All they have to do is change the mold on some piece of crappy 
plastic interior trim and voila, here's ANOTHER cup holder to boast about in the marketing 
materials. No engineering problems, no hit on fuel mileage, and so far, no known NTSB/DOT recalls on 
the cup holders (yet). Takata doesn't make cup holders, do they?


Dudes, the future is cup holders. Not self driving cars, not all wheel drive, not electric cars, not 
flying cars, but cup holders. He whose car has the most cup holders wins. Argh.


Best Regards,

Mike Arman
(whose 90V8Q might - just might - be about to be sold . . . )

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