It’s Valentine’s Day, a time of love, flowers, chocolates, and jewelry. Perhaps you and your significant other plan on celebrating tonight at what will undoubtedly be a jam-packed restaurant. For now, you’re checking out this week’s installment of Car Connections because you also love cars. It’s time to get three words from the Random Word Generator and link them to automobiles—no matter how clunky and labored that process may be. This week’s words are reserve, burn, and arise. How would you associate these words with cars? Tell us in the Comments section below.
Here we go!
Reserve: This is easy: The current generation (WL) of the Jeep Grand Cherokee, which was introduced in the 2022 model year. Why? Because it taught me that there’s a point higher than the summit, at least when it comes to trim levels. The Summit was the most luxurious version of the WK2 Grand Cherokee, but its successor topped that with the Summit Reserve trim. The two-row 2025 Grand Cherokee Summit Reserve has Palermo leather seats with heating, ventilation, and massage in the first row, heating and ventilation in the second row, a 19-speaker McIntosh audio system, 10.25-inch touchscreen display for the front passenger, dual-pane panoramic sunroof, and more.
Burn: The original Dodge Viper RT/10 roadster has muscular curves, cool three-spoke wheels, and a massive 8.0-liter V10. In earlier models, the engine is connected to side pipes, which make one of the most iconic cars of the 1990s look even cooler. Unfortunately, the routing of the exhaust also pumps a lot of heat right under the door sills, which can burn you if you’re not careful while getting in or out of the car.
Arise: Hmmm . . . yeast causes bread to rise. Bread. Sandwich. You know what kind of looks like a sandwich? The two-tone paint jobs you see on certain old trucks, such as this 1986 Chevrolet C10. It appears to have Chevy’s Exterior Decor Package (Combination D), which consists of body side moldings, decal stripes, one color (brown) above the stripes and below the moldings, and another color (tan) in between. I see the brown as the bread and the tan as the filling. Anyone order a dry chicken sandwich on pumpernickel?
If today’s round of Car Connections has you wanting to add a Jeep, Dodge, or Chevrolet to your garage, visit ClassicCars.com and AutoHunter.com. And if you have any ideas for random words to use in a future installment of Car Connections, shoot them our way!
