Ford snorts, giving Nux a dark look. "If my precious darling were here, you think I'd be squattin' around in this hovel with the likes of you? Fuck no. I'd be cruising at ninety miles a fuckin' hour. I'd be moving so fast you wouldn't hear me until I was gone. Silent and fuckin' deadly."

He shakes his head. "A man without his car. It ain't right. Like taking a baby away from its mum."