{"id":165701,"date":"2023-10-10T13:01:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T17:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=165701"},"modified":"2023-12-06T12:53:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T17:53:44","slug":"alpine-white-bmw-m4-convertible-fiona-red-leather-interior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/10\/10\/alpine-white-bmw-m4-convertible-fiona-red-leather-interior\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpine White BMW M4 Convertible, Fiona Red Leather Interior"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_165702\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-165702\" class=\"wp-image-165702 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-05-at-111900-am-1024x571.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-05-at-111900-am-1024x571.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-05-at-111900-am-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-05-at-111900-am-768x428.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-05-at-111900-am-1536x857.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/screenshot-2023-10-05-at-111900-am-2048x1142.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-165702\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BMW of Mountain View Geniuses, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tpzGwFR9KUo\">Tour the 2023 M4 Competition xDrive Convertible in Alpine White | 4K<\/a>.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>\u201cI want to wrap \/ my face tight with a silk scarf and spiral\u00a0 \u00a0 down \/\u00a0 \u00a0 a Cinque Terre highway in an Alfa Romeo,\u201d writes\u00a0Olivia Sokolowski in her poem \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/8008\/lover-of-cars-olivia-sokolowski\">Lover of Cars<\/a>,\u201d which appears in the new Fall issue of the <\/em>Review<em>. And who doesn&#8217;t, when you put it like that? In celebration of Sokolowski&#8217;s poem, we&#8217;ve commissioned writers to reflect briefly on cars they&#8217;ve loved, struggled with, coveted, and crushed on.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am not only a horrible driver but also a very confident one. I\u2019ve never owned a car. I shouldn\u2019t. Yet I\u2019ve got an unaccountable and unyielding desire for a vehicle I\u2019m not sure I\u2019ve ever even seen. I want\u2014have always wanted, with an impractical seriousness that astounds me\u2014an Alpine White BMW M4 two-seater convertible with a perforated Fiona Red leather interior.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t help myself. I want to get inside one so bad, and I want to ride it so slow, and I want to ride it fast, and I want to feel my feet thrill at being suspended only 120 mm above ground, at the threat of my toes being shredded into pavement. I want to park it and feel the brutal throb of my revving. I want to feel the car\u2019s restraint, for to drive it at all is to tame it\u2014it\u2019s to feel 503 horses latent in the softest touch of gas. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Other cars can go faster. But these other cars look like small men who have taken <a href=\"https:\/\/carbuzz.com\/cars\/bugatti\/chiron-super-sport-300\">too<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Devel_Sixteen#\/media\/File:Devel-sixteen.jpg\">much<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadandtrack.com\/news\/a40910573\/czinger-21c-v-max\/\">testosterone<\/a>. They do not come equipped with the M4\u2019s elegant and low-sloping front-fender curvature. They do not have the same sleek steel-plated jaw directing the eye to the upper cusp of each tire. They are too souped-up. They are vehicles with aerodynamics. My M4 <i>is<\/i> aerodynamism.<\/p>\n<p>As for the color scheme: why the white exterior and red interior? I don\u2019t know. Japan? Peru? Candy cane? Mint? Fresh! Elegance!<\/p>\n<p>While I dismiss other sports cars, I know that other vehicles\u2014standard, medium-speed ones\u2014have their appeal. They have their romance. I\u2019ve experienced such things\u2014I even went so far as to lose half my virginity in the back of a Jeep (a Wrangler befit with a busted passenger side door, a trunk full of old medical equipment, a sagging left-side tire, and a battery prone to failure, so prone in fact that one night it failed in the vacant parking lot of an Armenian church, which, incidentally, was when and where the partial deflowering took place, anyway). I could have developed hatchback attachments. Or gotten into salvaged cars\u2014my great-grandfather ran a used-car junkyard, through which my grandfather and later my father paraded, climbing over engines, retrofitting fenders.<\/p>\n<p>But all of that is behind me. Now I just want this one nice, perfect thing. No matter I\u2019ve never seen one, no matter I\u2019ll never afford one, no matter I should never drive one. I know you now, and maybe you know someone, who maybe possibly knows someone, who possibly knows or has heard of someone, who doesn\u2019t have to let me drive their beautiful specimen, but who at the very least can take me for a ride.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Sophie Madeline Dess\u2019s debut novel,<\/em> Dead Center<em>,<\/em><em>\u00a0will be published by Penguin Press in 2025. Her story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7953\/zalmanovs-sophie-madeline-dess\">Zalmanovs<\/a>\u201d appears in issue no. 242 of the<\/em> Review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOther cars can go faster. 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