The World of Mr. Newit

Local Boob Attains National Stage

Originally written in December 2007

So, I’ve written many letters to Autoweek complaining about all matter of idiocy and they have never published me. This time I put in a fucking pun and the not only publish me but I got the highlighted letter of the week with the accompanying car picture. Sigh.

And the letter:

Your criticism of the Yukon Hybrid’s plethora of badges proclaiming its “green” technology (“Welcome, Alien,” December 10, 2007) is correct but for the wrong reasons. Honda made a hybrid that looked like a car and it failed in the marketplace. Toyota made a hybrid that looked like a sick squash and it is a hit among the Chicken Little set. Unfortunately the importance of the hybrid technology is not its efficiency but its ability to act as a grand-scale, moral preening fashion accessory. However many badges one festoons on a Yukon you still will get a foul look from the guy in the Birkenstocks. The only fix is to make the vehicle look like another putrid gourd. It seems that is the only way to get the green.

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