What auto styling genius thought this was a good idea?

[jmohme]

I was driving back from College Station today and coming at me was a chevy that looked like it had sucked a garbage bag over the grill. I thought "this guys going to be overheating in a mile or two"

It turns out that the car was a Chevy EV and is supposed to look like this.

 

[Gunboat1]

Gotta virtue signal whenever possible, in libland.

[Maser]

You clearly don't live in a redneck area because you would've known that garbage bags are only for fixing blown out windows.  Not radiators. 

[railfancwb]

8 minutes ago, Maser said:

You clearly don't live in a redneck area because you would've known that garbage bags are only for fixing blown out windows.  Not radiators. 

When you replace a dead thermostat with nothing the plastic bag or cardboard or… lets the heat inside the cabin be kinda regulated. 

[ChuteTheMall]

Probably the same design team that did the Pontiac Aztek

[LostinTexas]

What auto styling genius thought this was a good idea?

I can't tell you how many times I've asked the same question over the years.

There is always the one that questions, "Who in their right mind let them to "that" to a ______?"

[Huaco Kid]

Garbage bags are for covering the grill of your chevy van, at -20°, so the heater might blow a little warm air.

[Batesmotel]

I’ve covered part of the radiator with canvas on a few vehicle in real cold weather. Not needed on new vehicles so much. 

[Huaco Kid]

The obligatory cut-open cardboard box, held on with bungee cords, allows the windshield to defrost enough to see out.

[jmohme]

Well, it is a General Motors product, so I guess the real problem is that the garbage bag was not big enough to fit the entire car. 

[Huaco Kid]

If you've ever worked on a VW Bug,  the first thing you do is take off all the heater ductwork, and put it in a cardboard box, where it goes under the porch, to rust into perpetuity. 

My friend kept sleeping bags in his car, for each passenger to survive,

The front passenger had to continually reach over with a Bic lighter,  to defrost the windshield enough to see out.

[Pogey Bait]

On 12/3/2022 at 12:42 AM, Huaco Kid said:

If you've ever worked on a VW Bug,  the first thing you do is take off all the heater ductwork, and put it in a cardboard box, where it goes under the porch, to rust into perpetuity. 

My friend kept sleeping bags in his car, for each passenger to survive,

The front passenger had to continually reach over with a Bic lighter,  to defrost the windshield enough to see out.

Had a 1965 Bug.  What I remember is the heat ducts in the back seat would roast your legs while the rest of your body froze.  Oh and the fact that with the gas tank mounted in front of the driver with sheet metal so thin you could almost see through it- between the front seats and the bumper- it was a literal death trap.  

[kerbie18]

On 12/5/2022 at 8:07 PM, Pogey Bait said:

Had a 1965 Bug.  What I remember is the heat ducts in the back seat would roast your legs while the rest of your body froze.  Oh and the fact that with the gas tank mounted in front of the driver with sheet metal so thin you could almost see through it- between the front seats and the bumper- it was a literal death trap.  

You would think this would be a given at this point 

[kerbie18]

And I would pay top dollar for a 1965 bug!

[Pogey Bait]

As an Ambulance EMT in the early 1970's I was on a run where a lady driving a VW Bug  with 2 small children in the back seat ran into the rear of a stalled car over the crest of a hill on a highway leading into town.  All 3 were DRT, and the vehicle burned when the gas tank imploded.  

[janice6]

SIL stayed with us while her husband was TAD elsewhere.  Bad Minnesota Winter day High of -10 strong wind.  Her car wouldn't start so she borrowed my wife's VW.  She came home that day complaining of much pain in her breasts.  She told my wife that she drove all the way to work while scraping the frost off the inside of the windshield with a CC. While also holding her forearms under her boobs 'cause the shaking from the clods of ice on the roads were hurting her.

Take away from this:  The VW started.