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was out papering teslas on my dog walk, a practice that has got me looking closer at cars and noticing how ubiquitous the mega tall & blunt front grille has become. the hummer-ification of the US auto fleet is shit design for safety, aesthetic, and air resistance/mpg reasons
@seachanger
This has bothered me for years at this point. Decades.
Also: if you view the front of the car as a face, what emotion is it conveying? Once you start seeing it, it’s hard to stop.
My youngest would always comment on what the cars were feeling when he was little, and now I see it all the time too! … and there are few happy cars on the road anymore 
Back when I was a kid, I really really liked the Dodge/Chrysler Neon, because the front looked like it was smiling.
@JessTheUnstill @DavidM_yeg @seachanger
I had one of those things! My friend tried to give it to me for nothing, and I argued her up to $500 even though she said she felt bad about that. It had problem after problem. My rule was I’d only fix safety-related things, and only under a certain (fairly low) repair cost. It lasted for •years• that way: it was just barely holding together and always on the brink of undrivable…yet somehow it never quite died. Finally donated it for parts when the clutch had completely filled with engine oil.
It was by any standard a terrible car, yet it stuck with me for longer than it should have. And yeah, it looked happy doing it.
Yeah, when I got a little older I learned that they really weren't particularly good cars. But they still made me smile every time I saw one because it was small and cute in the era that the SUVs started taking over the roads.
@inthehands @DavidM_yeg @seachanger
@JessTheUnstill @inthehands @DavidM_yeg @seachanger My first car was a '69 Chevy Malibu with a manual shift on the steering column. My dad bought it for 500 dollars to forestall me buying a new motorcycle. I didn't care about cars or particularly want one. I walked or rode my bike most places. I parked it on the street in front of my apt. One day I went out the door and I noticed it wasn't there. I couldn't remember the last time I saw it. I was more upset losing books in the car than the car.
@JessTheUnstill @inthehands @DavidM_yeg @seachanger When Reagan got elected and SUVs and large penis extender pickup trucks began to appear everywhere, I saw them as two ton harbingers of our self inflicted doom. Wasn't wrong.