Slapping a Confederate stars & bars sticker on your Japanese Acura CL family sedan.
bahahaha.
I saw this while I was coming home from work. I was expecting to have a fairly unpleasant slog through a route of traffic that I knew that I would be facing regularly from now on, but I have to admit that seeing this amusing unity of conflicting automotive elements made the drive a little more tolerable, as I found myself laughing over this several times over throughout the crawl.
I couldn’t help but wonder if the driver was aware of the irony that he had a Japanese car, and put a symbol of, basically racism on it, or if the driver was just stupid, and didn’t realize that the car he was driving in and had his stars & bars on, was manufactured by some chink company.
A part of me thinks that it’s the former, and that the driver is somewhat aware of the irony, based on the fact that, aside from the Acura emblem, the car is devoid of the “Acura” nameplate that sits on the left side of the trunk, and the “CL” model marker that sits on the right. The emblem itself is salvaged, probably because the guy doesn’t want the two ugly holes that would be visible in its absence which would then make his car look ghetto.
Either way, nothing says ironic like flying your stars & bars on an import car. I hope some real rednecks give this guy some shit about it, but that would also require rednecks to be smart enough to understand the difference between domestic and import manufacturers in the first place. But it isn’t a pickup truck, so that might be the difference maker.
