What is the deal with those stickers and fake emblems dealers slap on the cars they sell?
Ms. MacKinnon: Here in Southern California (home of our editorial offices), dealers mostly stick to (easily removable and totally unnecessary) license plate frames and fake license plates for advertising that you just bought your new ride at Honest Tony’s Autoporium-o-rama. But there are plenty of out-of-state cars cruising our mean streets so that I am quite familiar with this (IMO) strange and annoying practice of dealer branding, whether it’s a blocky sticker crudely stuck on the rear decklid (see above) or an almost believable metal trim piece spelling out the dealer’s name and placed next to the car’s factory badging. Sure, dealers should be allowed to advertise to the public. But the nerve of using adhesive on my precious new set of wheels to do so! Shocking. Mr. Romans: Yep, they’re tacky. But what can we really expect out of the country that invented Las Vegas, truck antlers and the 1974 Ford Mustang II? Really, we only have ourselves to blame. It seems plenty of people don’t m
