2013 Cadillac ATS Long-Term Road Test

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2013 Cadillac ATS Long-Term Road Test

Summer in Los Angeles means blooming Jacaranda trees. They're beautiful, but can make a real mess of your car.

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canadaphant

Once again, people everywhere else in the country think 'That's the danger to your car? Sticky flowers?'

Hope you don't have to scrub any off, I'm sure they're a pain, but compared to pea gravel, salt, snow, etc? Yeah, you LA folks are soft :-)

dscain

Mine is my 300-yard-long gravel driveway. When it's dry (as it always is during the summer), it's impossible to keep any of my cars clean.

tatermctatums

My vehicles seem to be target practice for birds at both home and work. But they only seem to bother when they are clean. If they are covered with dust or road grime they don't waste their time.

quadricycle

Bugs!! Its hot and humid where I live, so some summer nights the air is just saturated with bugs, and all of them are attracted by the headlights. The car gets a bath every week, but the windshield and headlights get cleaned literally every other day...

hybris

Dust is the only serious thing that gets on my truck during the warm months since given my work schedule sometimes I don't drive my truck for several days.