There is a small bit of motorway in the centre of town, where the road goes underneath four or five others, in a sweeping turn in a suddenly dark tunnel area, and every single time I drive through it, I sing some John Williams Star Wars, and pretend I am chasing down TIE fighters.
Sometimes I have to whisper it to myself because there are other people in the car and I don't want to look like a total idiot, and sometimes I blast it out at full throttle, but it's always there.
Da da! dad da! Da da daaa daaa daaa daaa!
The Mazda Axela might be light years away from a X-wing, but it's as close as I'll ever get. I remember when my Aunty Anne bought the first Japanese import car I'd ever seen in the early eighties, and it had so many glorious knobs and switches and buttons, it really felt like I could use it to fly off to the outer limits of the galaxy.
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