Wash me

Published 8:58 pm Monday, April 27, 2009

Since you’ll probably have to drive your current car for a long time to come, experts say you might as well keep it looking sharp.

Washing and waxing cars is not our idea of weekend fun, but look at it this way: You can stretch your beer budget with all the loose change you’ll fish out from under the seats.

Nationalizing the means of production: The government would own a majority of General Motors under a restructuring plan for the deeply troubled automaker.

If we own GM, does that mean we can order it to stop building the Cadillac Escalade?

Pontiac dies ugly: The Pontiac obituaries invariably will mention the GTO, the Trans Am, and maybe the Firebird that did those J-turns with James Garner behind the wheel on “The Rockford Files.”

But no Pontiac retrospective is complete without citing the Aztek, a car that was described on National Public Radio’s “Car Talk” thusly: “It looks the way Montezuma’s revenge feels.”