While the wife has a junked car
the husband has a brand-new, sports car.
The funny thing is that i know some couples like this one.
Sadly I have been hearing everyone I know
that has seen this film say exactly that - since 1983
.
I agree it's ridiculous but very true here
.
Thanks arturog for your subject post
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It is called a movie. Why do people make deals out of movies that are just movies?
No more IMDB boards for me!

Yep,a bunch of sexist pigs back then. Oinking it up.:)

On your second point you are correct.
On your first point, wellYeah the Pinto was a POS in the 80's. I was there. My sister had one. The pinto was considered to be one of the most dangerous cars ever produced. It killed and maimed hundreds of people. It had an exploding gas tank. There was a huge lawsuit.
I could have been at a barbecue!

Actually, maybe in the 80's, when this movie was made, that car wasn't such a piece of junk. Plus the fact that the husband drives such a flashy car is perhaps another way to show the viewer what a self centered scumbag he was..
"IMdB; where 14 year olds can act like jaded 40 year old critics'

t seems like if they could afford that Jaguar then they should have been able to afford a second car that wasn't a total piece of garbageunless they were just trying to live beyond their means..
I agree. I thought that too. Its fine to want to be conservative with money, but come ON! Buy the wife a car that's not a piece of crap!
Your son is riding around in it, for God's sake. Keep him safe at least.
"I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus."
"Didn't he discover America?"
"Penfold, shush."

It seems like if they could afford that Jaguar then they should have been able to afford a second car that wasn't a total piece of garbageunless they were just trying to live beyond their means..
"IMdB; where 14 year olds can act like jaded 40 year old critics'

It is pretty clear in the movie, she needed to take it into the mechanic to get it fixed. That's why he had the better car.

That was funny! That classic Jaguar was gorgeous!
"IMdB; where 14 year olds can act like jaded 40 year old critics'

I've seen this a hundred times. The father of a girl I went to school with made damn good money working for Goodyear. They lived in a little run down house, the girl and her sisters all had the same car handed down to them, and her moms car was a wore out '94 Tarus. But her dad had what was probably at the time, a $ 70,000 boat, a new truck, a a brand new Harley. It's lame as hell, but there are lots of people like that,

Well he had to take that car on his trip so Donna could take the Pinto in to get fixed. He can't teleport it from his hotel to the Camber's if he took it could he?
I did sixty in five minutes once

My aunt and uncle are like this. Uncle has a brand new Cadillac STV truck while his wife has dinky mid-90's Oldsmobile 88 Special.
I have El Sonoma del Torra de Fiero Syndrome. Be happy you don't.
Trust me.

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It seemed as though his car went from being a piece os s*** to being a really nice one.
The Jag was a piece of crap at the beginning.

and it has serious muffler problems too.
We're not soldiers and he's not the enemy. He's a pizza man.

Wasn't his sports car a 2 seater? So the Pinto was the "family" car. If the husband, wife and kid had to go anywhere together they'd have to travel in the clunky old pinto. Maybe he/they weren't being selfish, just "cheap". In respect to the "family" mobile.
"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep."

Maybe she was having the affair because he was a selfish @ss who had a new sports car while his wife and child had an old Pint.
No one is saying she should've had a sports car, but THAT? Damn.

Reliable car? It was a a Jaguar E-Type !

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Gosh, don't understand why everyone's so down on the Pinto. It's not like they have a bad reputation or anything(tongue in cheek).

He needed a reliable vehicle to get to and from work.
ROF,L. It wasn't a "reliable vehicle", it was an '80s Jaguar. The Pinto would have been a better bet.

Depends how you look at it. That could have been a late model Pinto. Ford made them up until 1980, only to be replaced by another piece of crap: Escort.
Pinto was Ford's answer to building a small 4 cylinder car with decent gas milage. It was a piece of crap from the start. While it was a decent family truckster at the time, it was a piece of crap nevertheless. Looking at her driving habits, it probably didn't have that many miles on it. Just a crap car with low miles.
"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep."

I was kind of chewing on this one, too.
Say, for instance,
if
in both book and movie,
if
the husband (played by Daniel Hugh Kelly) was initially getting some action on the side (say with some hotsie-totsie secretary), then I could kind of understand her cheating. But STILL, why would you cheat on that sexy, hunk of a husband?!
Not that I approve of cheating, though. Still not right.

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