Yep. I think we’ve all run into some form of textured plastic trim like this. Looks bad quickly and it’s a pain to clean as well. I truly don’t understand the thinking. If car makers insist on using it, they could at least limit it to small areas. Big chunks of it like this just needlessly screw things up. I love…

Yeah -- I wasn’t limiting it to the hatch. Sedan has dents instead of honeycombs. Just as weird.

I’d swear the last one I was behind had paint there. Looked like it was just dented on each side. Maybe they were color matched?

I like the paint job. And the nose is not too bad. The fake honeycomb bits front and rear are still killing me though.

Welcome to Florida! I think you’ll fit in great here. I noticed you were thrown a little by some of our place names, so let me know if you need a pronunciation guide or a list of the better Thai restaurants.

Looks like an acrylic bathtub.

Well they ran out of replacement motors for the whole of North America at one point, if that tells you anything.

Neutral – The only smart reason to pay attention to brand is because it denotes a car that has something real that you value — like BMW driving dynamics or Mercedes durability (???) or Tesla electric thrust or something like that. If it’s just a badge to show people you have a certain amount of money or because you…

The creases are bad, although I get what they’re trying to do. The acres of fake honeycomb venting at front and rear are more offensive I think.

It is a little busy, in the front. Then it continues to get more busy on the sides, until reaching a screaming crescendo of busy at the rear.

Should have worn the bullet necklace for maximum credibility.

This crap again? The hand / heart thing is for the Pledge, not the anthem, jingoistic conforma-dorks. And the Pledge is stupid.

THIS. Why would a real firearm, much less a loaded one, be used in a civilian training class like this?

Our household’s pet theory as well. Makes almost no sense, but still more sense than anything else.

Good job — I haven’t seen this information spelled out anywhere as well as on Jalopnik. Signed up my wife’s 2011 Sportwagen TDI. 80,000 miles, BlueBook trade-in somewhere around $7k; VW says they’ll pay about $19,000 for turning it in if it’s not over 85k on Nov. 1.

Unfortunately, the “pointing-guns-at-people-because-they-look-suspicious-to-you” and the “you don’t let ‘criminals get away’” part of American gun culture are the prominent, relevant parts.

It’s “POM-pa-NO” Florida. Like the fish.

As a Floridian, I can’t help but roll my eyes at the silly Florida Man confirmation bias routine. It’s the third most populous state with excellent open records laws, so the police blotters are more easily picked up than in other places.

Except the rights balancing formula works out a bit differently weighing the free exchange of ideas vs. carrying lethal weapons around.

People sitting in their car on the street doesn’t create some kind of right to hold them at gunpoint.