I suppose the inverse of today’s Autopian ask is an easy one: New Car Smell is the best car smell. It’s also the only good smell that comes to mind, at least for me, amongst the many, many smells associated with cars – which are mostly not-good, and to varying degrees bad, awful, and/or gross.
OK, but what do you mean by car smells? Smells produced by cars? Well, sure, those odors are of course on the list. In fact, Matt, presumably mid The Morning Dump, instantly offered burnt clutch as the worst car smell. Indeed, there is no Burnt Clutch scented Little Trees Air Freshener for a reason. Brian (Silvestro, but you should be on a first-name basis by now) countered with “diff oil,” and “hot-ass brake dust,” not to be confused with “hot ass-brake dust,” which is a different thing that also smells bad.
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I would like to raise Matt and Brian with cherry-red catalytic converter under my Dodge Omni in college, the glowing box of hot stench that befouled my secretly-a-Talbot hatchback halfway through a date. It was a bit of a mood-killer TBH.
I would also count as car-smells any odors one is likely to encounter in a car, even if not car-generated. Obviously, “blown-out diaper” and “carsick puke” are way up there. But I’m also strangely grossed out by food smells; a big bag of In-N-Out smells delicious on the way home, but when I get into the car later and the smell of Double-Doubles and animal-style fries hits my nose anew, it makes me wanna hurl.
Your turn: What’s The Worst Car Smell?
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