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Pat Shurmer at home in Motown

It’s not because he got a great deal on it or because he likes the mileage it gets or its safety features. Instead, it’s about his own identity. It reminds him of where he comes from — Dearborn Heights, Michigan, just outside Detroit — and of how he was raised. In the past he’s been behind the wheels of GMs or Chryslers, too.

“I’ve always driven an American car,” the head coach of the Giants told Newsday. “The cars and manufacturing of cars, it was a big part of what we were as an area growing up, so I’ve always sort of embraced that.