Tank Full Of Ugly – Opinions From E. Curtis Johnson [VIDEO]

Growing up in a small town, we teenagers would drag the main street in town, which was five blocks long, because we were desperate for dates and desperate for anything to do. Some kids had cool cars of their own, but most just drove their parents car. As a teenager from the 1970’s, I understand why someone just paid $488,000 for the 1977 Pontiac Trans Am that Bert Reynolds drove in, “Smokey and the Bandit.”  CNBC reports that according to a carinsurance.com survey, the Chevrolet Spark EV is the “…ugliest car of 2014…” and that 41% of us would sacrifice a car’s looks for fuel efficiency. Pardon me for waxing nostalgic, but I remember when ugly referred to the price of a tank of gas and not to the style of the car. The America I grew up in designed beautiful gas-guzzlers. Why can’t we design stylish fuel efficiency? Why does alternative energy automatically translate to unattractive transportation? I’m E. Curtis Johnson. Does the 41% who would intentionally choose an ugly car mean we’ve grown up or we’re still desperate?