“This world is an awful big machine.” —Woody Guthrie, 1943
“This iQ is an awful small machine.” —Car and Driver, 2012
Manufacturers are so jittery about peddling micro subcompacts that they’ve resorted to intellectual flattery. A thinking person would surely have purchased a TH!NK, at least before Ford lost faith in its Norwegian electric-car experiment and expelled it from class. If you’re the brainy sort, you’d naturally opt for a Smart Fortwo, recently suspended by Roger Penske and sent off to see the stern principal, Mr. Daimler. And now comes the Mensa bunch, whose IQs would surely route them to an iQ, at least if this latest Scion can find a class that will accept its grades. For the nonce, the iQ is standing in the A-segment hall, late for class, occasionally tapping timorously on the homeroom door.
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