
Used Cars & A Car Wash: Featuring the FJ Cruiser
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The FJ Cruiser, tangerine, a 2012 vintage, hunkered in the driveway, a squat, almost comical presence against the grey scrim of a Bremerton January. Not my driveway, precisely, but the one appended to the split-level I’ve temporarily colonized. The FJ, though, that’s mine. Acquired, a month back, from West Hills Autoplex, a name that resonates with a certain… optimism, a can-do Americanism that feels both quaint and vaguely cosmopolitan. They had a lot of cars, West Hills.