Actually my father never drove an Oldsmobile. Any vehicle with the word “old” in it is inevitably doomed anyway. In a consumer-driven quest for all that is new and shinny and undiscovered, "old" just won't do. Perhaps “Wismobile” or “Distinguismobile” or even “Myleftturnsignalhasbeenonfor6blocksmobile”.
Anything but “old”.
It’s those who wants things new. They want to use new words like, “community” instead of “friends” (“friends” is so “90’s” anyway, right?). They want coffee shops with couches, not bar stools. They want iTunes not records. They want to grab intrinsic human desires and relabel them with some post-modernism in order to “newify” things to their liking.
Come to think of it, I’m starting to sound a little old myself.
... You kids get off my lawn!!
