Shower regularly, wear clean clothes, and take a towel to wipe off the sweat. Remove towel when you get home. Clean your damn car. All of this will keep your car smelling new, and a lot less than $100 a pop.

It happens often enough, but you’d expect better from a large car manufacturer to do better, but the L-series is one of those cars that looked worse with a redesign. The original fascia was much better looking, and stayed with the Saturn design language. The redesign looks like a re-badging effort done with signature…

How were the meatballs and the cinnamon buns?

Purely from the standpoint of a parent, who would have to explain to his kids what the sticker says, and what the word “fuck” means, I would prefer to not be behind that truck. Ever.

Efficiency is not an American game. We have fat, lazy asses, they have skinny, smart asses.

Fresno, where the IQ is about 40 points below the state’s average, due to agrarian conservatism and worshiping low-culture stupidity for decades.

Few thoughts to take away from this article (some from the pictures0):

Central Valley gets a lot of it pollution from the Bay Area. It doesn’t help that farmers pretty much get away with spewing crap into the air, and that we allow gigantic dairies and poultry farms to exist. Add to the fact that it is a valley, and the heat makes it that much worse. However, the Bay Area is a major…

That’s ok. Harvest a C5 engine and transmission, and we got something.

Possible stick shift swap?

Good riddance. I’m sure Skinner is a very capable driver, but the character just doesn’t bring anything to the table. As an American, I’m not butt hurt about them making fun of fat, loud-mouthed Americans (because I don’t fall in those categories), but the punchlines just aren’t there.

And that’s ok. It can stay broken. Luckily the Internet is on the consumer’s side, if you know how to use it to your advantage. My last car purchasing experience was very pleasant. I firmed a price over the phone, because I did my research on how much my car went for...invoice, median, low and high, and I had a price…

Or “Spoiled Bowl of Poi.”

Call from Google Voice, because if you call from a cell phone, and it is unblocked, I can guarantee that they will call you back a bunch of times to try to get you to come in. I had to block a place once and lodged a complaint against the owner, because one of their sales people won’t stop calling me, even after I…

Save for the fake wood trim, the interior truly is a very nice place to be in, even in the rear seat. The wraparound design of the of the dashboard is just cool. And I’ve always been mesmerized by the Mark VIII’s taillight assembly.

The lights in the grille make no sense. It’s a gratuitous use of LED, just like most tasteless design cues these days. I’m not a fan of the big Ford block letters in the grille on the Raptor, either, but at least it’s in matte black.

It isn’t that you’re not manly enough, but you’re not blind enough for this truck. It’s fugly. It looks like someone’s incomplete rendering of a 3D object on Blender. The Raptor (minus the hideous graphics package) is plenty manly, and looks awesome. This...this is an eyesore.

Yup, and that’s a lazy-ass way of doing it too. You can gel the windshield, reduce the amount of backlighting, or use a different angle. Removing the windshield...even a kid can pick out that flaw.

Or when they shoot a driving scene from the windshield, and the visors, rear view mirror, and headrests are all removed. No one drives like that.

Putting thousands of dollars of equipment into a $3,500 car is your freedom, and no one should bitch about that. But, what I take issues with people who blast their stereo on the road is not all of us want to listen to your shitty music.