There are exactly two flavors of Calvin and Hobbes comics, and they always come in one of two extremes: unapologetically silly, and depressingly existential. The raccoon story arc... well, that follows the latter.
Mine's an '04 Subaru Outback. May not look like much, but it's spacious enough to shove an entire recliner in the back, and it's capable enough on rough terrain to get me to the range (well, I say "range," but I really just mean a cliff base in the woods that people use as a shooting range and a dumping ground) and back.