The Chevy HHR

The Hopelessly Horrid Rental

If you ever have the opportunity to rent or drive one of these...don't.

Actually, I must retract my statement about the lights. There is an interior light. It's this wee little LED that casts a ghostly pallor over the gearshift, so you can at least change gears, if not eat, in the dark. Lovely. What will they think of next?

Let's take a stroll down to the engine room, shall we? Oh, wow! A big burly-looking plastic cover. Those bulges must make room for all the serious machinery under there, right?

Well, maybe not. I think the cover is there as a kind of fig leaf, just to keep the car from being embarassed by itself. :-)

Yes, this is a small windshield. So small, that when I stopped at traffic intersections, I couldn't see the signal lights.

The Chevy HHR. I drove it, so you don't have to.