Saucy new pizzamobile delivers pies around Snohomish County

Saucy new pizzamobile delivers pies around Snohomish County

You know that pizza smell that lingers in your car for days after you get a carry-out?

Well, now imagine toting around 80 pies.

That’s what this pizzamobile can do — and it even has a warming oven.

What’s up with that?

It’s Domino’s new delivery ride, a saucy Spark by Chevrolet.

If this car was a pizza, it would be a personal-pan size with all the toppings.

There is only one seat, for the driver. The front passenger space is configured so the salads, wings and big bottles of pop can ride shotgun.

A sign on the back says “Warming Oven Aboard.”

The oven sits behind the driver, and is accessible from the outside. Talk about steamy back seat action.

The national pizza chain with the red-and-blue logo recently rolled out about 100 custom Sparks in select markets across the country.

There are four cars in Western Washington, with one that makes deliveries in Snohomish County.

“It is mainly used for single runs,” said Justin Ford, franchise owner of 21 Domino’s stores, including those in Everett, Snohomish, Monroe, Lake Stevens and Arlington. He said a tricked-out Chevy costs about $20,000.

“Stores take turns using it. It’s an incentive.”

From there, it trickles down to the humble pizza pilots who otherwise must use their own cars.

“Lead drivers and our better drivers get to take it,” said Joe Hausinger, supervisor at the Domino’s at 7601 Evergreen Way in Everett.

“For deliveries, it’s a lot of fun and you get a lot of awesome looks. You pull up at a stoplight and everybody around you is looking at the car checking it out. Little kids wave.”

An air-freshener shaped like a pizza slice hangs from the rear-view mirror. It’s scented like vanilla, not pepperoni.

“A bunch of them came with the car,” Hausinger said.

A lot of tossing and turning went into making this car that cheesy pundits have called a “cheese lover’s Batmobile” or the “Oscar Mayer Weinermobile of pizza.”

The design and production of the car took more than three years and entailed a contest for the ultimate delivery vehicle. The challenge got 385 entries from designers around the world.

The rig gets 39 miles per gallon. The gas tank latch says “Unleaded fuel only: No pizza sauce.”

Drivers do not carry more than $20.

Nor do they make pizzas on the spot.

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