Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for May 01, 2024

He’s in love with the engine and not the car?

Transverse mounted V8 FWD with a round air cleaner?

1980’s-ish GM E body? (Eldo, Riv, Toro…)

Oh hey it’s ralphie! Been a while. But I respect that Cantu and Castellnos have kept most of their supporting cast around (Minus former love intrests for Baldo. That’s a track record their not great with)

Start the Freddie Mercury song “I’m in love with my car!” Always loved that one.

“And he hungers in his secret dreams / for the harsh embrace of cruel machines / but his lover is not what she seems / and she will not leave a note.”

Transverse mount? Radical mod, bruh.

Hey, you put a lot of effort into something, you tend to develop an emotional attachment to it.

Baldo’s future

Other than Baldo, I don’t recall ever seeing the other two in this strip

I was in love with my first car, my second car, my suv and our class B RV (think Chevy van not what you see in movies). I hate our current car (which is the same manufacturer as all of the above except my first car) and so does husband. It should have been recalled but the manufacturer refuses and says nothing is wrong – it only needs a quart of oil about every month and we had to have an “oil collection can” installed to keep the engine from being further fouled.