“The girl in the passenger seat said she had never before been in “a car like this,” meaning, apparently, a sedan. Richard felt far beyond merely old.”

— Neal Stephenson , book Reamde

Thanksgiving (prologue)
Reamde (2011), Part I: Nine Dragons

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