Portholes have returned. And it's not a good thing.

Many years ago, Buick added what were called "portholes" to the front fenders of their vehicles. The more portholes your Buick had, the more "prestigious" your model of car was. The portholes went away for awhile, but were recently reintroduced by Buick. See the photo below of the Buick Lucerne to see what I mean.



(photo from Buick, annotations by me)

Now it seems the latest stupid car modification rage is fake portholes on your car. Like the free-spinning wheel covers and the fake Mercedes Benz hood ornaments on everything, we now have....portholes. On everything. I've seen them on a Chrysler LHX, a Honda Accord, and even on a Chevy 1500 pickup truck!

Pulllleeeeze. Why do people think that these things make their cars look cool? It's just stupid.