Pennsylvania; either “Land of Four Seasons Total Landscaping” or “This Car Featured on Regular Car Reviews”.

1st. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Stellantis needs to cut *French* models to show they’re serious about any “Merger of Equals”. Make Citroen a small-car only brand and Peugeot entry-luxury leaning into its’ “French Mercedes” reputation of old, leaving the upper-B and C segments to Opel. They don’t need…

They flipped from Torch Red to Kinetic Blue Metallic.

I’d only have considered a Civic over the Fit I bought if I spent a lot more time on the interstate  than I do. It’s not like there’s any extra usable people space - it’s all eaten up by that gigantic console - or cargo space unless you upgrade even further to a Civic hatchback over the now pointless sedan. 

3rd: The logical deal would be for Ineos to sell the Grenadier tooling and IP to Hyundai and get out of the auto business. 

And a lot more Chevrolet-Buick-GMC-Cadillac ones. There’s really no reason for GM to have more than one sales channel anymore, it’s not like when they had five passenger-car divisions and a market share that topped 50% in a good year.

In a non-front-plate state the dealer will just stick a decal with their logo on that flat spot so instead of a blank rectangular sticking-out flat spot you’ll get a sticking-out flat spot with BIG BILL HELL’S AUTO GROUP CJDR-SUBARU-KIA on it. 

Hell, it would be a waste of tap water. 

There is going to be one. 

I see all of them all over Vermont, including a thirdgen Honda Fit from the inside. Yeah, a Civic wasn’t THAT much more but all the extra people space is eaten up by that ridicuhuge console, and all the extra cargo space by the Civic’s sedan-ness, and the base LX is CVT-only starting with ‘20, and by the time I’d gone…

California is one of the few states where the license plates and the number stay with the car, not the owner. 

Those Vermont plates fade badly though. Only in the number field, the upper and lower bands with “Vermont” and “Green Mountain State” on them don’t.

So they upgraded the battery-and-motor system, downgraded the upholstery and threw in a feature that in a sane world would make the car completely uninsurable. Got it. 

Silver just isn’t its’ color and neither is red. Looks great in aqua though.

Ah, 1977-78, GM’s Dawn of False Hope. The Chevette was not yet terribly outdated for being RWD, the big B- and C-bodies were markedly improved by their downsizing, and the A- (later G-) body was about to get the same treatment for ‘78.

On a related note, fake-wood paneling. I thought it was the stupidest ugly crap when I was a kid, now it has a certain “they don’t make ‘em like that anymore” appeal to it.

I was just thinking the only thing better(?) than this would be if the speedo and tach were Mel-Brooks-As-Hitlers. Also, someone really needs to get Brooks to say Jason’s line about his blood type being deli.

I would guess that’s a Santa Fe and a Kona N-Line under the tarps. 

And if you give me a choice I’ll take a model car over clothes.

And for that matter will there be any design “easter eggs” worked into them?