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Nissan Quest Minivan: The Stripper-Friendly Family Car

If your husband suddenly wants a family-friendly minivan instead of that sports car, it's probably not because he's ready to settle down and start making babies.

It's because the 2011 Nissan Quest soccer mom minivan now comes with a GPS category that enables you to sniff out the nearest adult entertainment venue with just the simple touch of a button.

(I'm talking about strip clubs, people.)

Yes, the brand that prides itself on "family innovation" has put a strip club category in its GPS navigation system.

"Adult Entertainment" is at the top of the categories, followed by Amusement Places, Bowling, Bars & Clubs, Casinos ... wow, forget the limo for the bachelor party, just rent a minivan.

Call me crazy, but I really just don't find it necessary to include this in a GPS system. I mean, really, how often do you go to strip clubs that you would need this feature included in a navigation system? I would seriously hate to explain to a young child why those places are for adults and, no, we can't go there after the grocery store.

Are they trying to make the minivan cool? Trying to reach out to a new demographic (obviously men)? I have no doubt that the boys would love this feature, just judging by reading the comments on other articles, but I doubt, even with the ability to track down every strip club within a 200-mile radius, it's going to entice a single male 20-something to buy this thing. They could put a stripper pole in the middle of the darn thing -- it's still, at the end of the day, a minivan.

And this mobile porn can be yours at the low price of $27,750.

"Innovation for Family," indeed. Yeah, thanks to this feature it'll be a broken family.

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13 comments

  • Clubber
    14 years ago
    I checked my company supplied GPS a couple of months ago, and if I use the find feature with "spelling" it finds strip clubs. Not a lot of help, since I know them all already.
  • Prim0
    14 years ago
    At least the writer of the article wasn't passing any judgements! I didn't know that having an option to find "Adult Entertainment" would lead us to broken families. Once again, SC's are made out to be evil.
  • samsung1
    14 years ago
    I think there would be at least a half a dozen strip clubs I would have never found if it was not for my GPS. The only strip club I could not find using my GPS was Deja Vu Cincinnati
  • shadowcat
    14 years ago
    Well fuck. I had to go down to the garage and check my Garmin GPS. It did not find any. Maybe there is a distance requirement. Closest club is over 30 miles from my house.

    I also noticed that the "My location" on TUSCL does not show any clubs. Even when I panned out to about 50 miles.

    Can you believe that with all the road trips vincemichaels does, he does not have a GPS?
  • georgmicrodong
    14 years ago
    I know that Tom-Tom has user supplied downloadable content for their products, and one of the available one's a couple of years ago was a list of SC locations. Don't know extensive it was, as I've found TUSCL's address listings pretty accurate and most GPSs allow direct address input.
  • SometimeVoyager
    14 years ago
    I guess that's a great option if you are out running errands and have a sudden urge to find an adult entertainment establishment. Personally I pretty much know where I'm going before I set out, and if not I get the address from my Blackberry then use my Garmin for navigation.
  • Clubber
    14 years ago
    sc,

    You are correct, Vince does not use a GPS. He does, however use a Multi-Accessible Page unit, sometimes referred to as a MAP.
  • Clubber
    14 years ago
    sc,

    I have a Garmin and used the "spell" feature, so you have to at least know the club name.
  • minnow
    14 years ago
    ss1- Wouldn't the same nav system in the minivan be available in the GTR and 370Z models? For unfamiliar clubs, I just call the club and ask for directions from prominent place (airport, major highway intersection, etc).
  • samsung1
    14 years ago
    minnow, I don't know about the other models. That is a good idea to call and ask for directions from prominent place.
  • shadowcat
    14 years ago
    Clubber, yes that works. I was hoping that by spelling strip club, it would locate them for me.
  • Chief69
    14 years ago
    minnow, yes I had an infiniti and it had an Adult subcategory under Leisure. It had no trouble finding clubs.
  • samsung1
    14 years ago
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