The Nissan Naugatuck?

The blog is going from once a week to once in a while. I'll explain later.

Meanwhile, it hit me how trucks and SUVs are named after rough and ready places, mostly out West in the mountains, so we can image ourselves as rugged individualists while stuck at a stop light headed for Home Depot.

But I think the car companies have used up all the cool places. Santa Fe, Tahoe, Denali, Outback, Sierra, Silverado, Telluride, Yukon, Durango, Santa Cruz, Ridgeline, Kona, Tundra, Wind River.

Okay, you caught me, I made up the last one. How did they miss Wind River?

There's even a Toyota Tacoma. I drive one. Last time I was in Tacoma, Washington it reeked from the many paper mills, so much so that the smell was cleverly nicknamed "The Tacoma Aroma." That was forty years ago, and I hear the mills are gone, place has been cleaned up and gentrified, a repurposed Northwest version of Brooklyn.

Bonus question: Wouldn't The Tacoma Aroma be a great name for the minor league baseball team?

But I think it's time for some representation of us rust belt Northeasterners. We buy most of those Subarus. Forget mountains. We've got abandoned factories and potholes deep enough to fly fish in. 

How about the Nissan Naugatuck? The Ford F-150 Pougheepsie Edition? The Chevy Bridgeport?  The Subaru Chicopee? And for driving rocky beaches? The Dodge Plymouth. You've got to be rugged to survive these places.

​I'm willing to sell my consulting services to the auto industry.

Now. About the blog. I've got to focus on finishing my JR Johnson novels. I have a trilogy that came to me, and I'm going to spend time on that. Will do a blog post when I have something to say.

Meanwhile, if you haven't seen Press The Button, please take a look:

www.amazon.com/dp/B0GR9HLFDK