IV opening talk

[Mark Kohut]

Clement Levy writes:
We read in this chapter many cars' makers and models' names (as before), but Doc soon cannot use his Dart. 

Pynchon knows cars, we know. Early, say V., with the famous Rachel O. scene
and the pervasive theme of animate vs inanimate, we can infer P might think
America's love affair with cars .....was part of the problem.

Do we think the same in IV? Is P's pervasive verbal presentation of cars
the same attitude as from the early part of his career?