Review of Motor City Masters

Disappointment is about the only way to describe this show. Starting with Jenn Jennings and her flamboyant hats. She's hardly someone that I would call an expert in car design, and the simple fact that she was an editor for Automobile Magazine doesn't carry any weight with me to qualify her as such. But the truck redesign to turn Silverado's into beach trucks was the final straw. For some unknown reason, she came out with this god awful idea that the trucks needed to have a paneling design element added to the sides. Jenn, why didn't you also demand vinyl roofs for the tops to match the grossly outdated fake wood we used to adorn the sides of our rolling boats with? So two trucks roll out, one green with a funky skeleton painted in blue attached to the sides which was described as a new take on paneling. Sorry guys, but calling something paneling doesn't make it so. The other truck comes out yellow with gray effects on it, plus a small section of paneling below the rear window on each side. The paneling was put there for no other reason that it had to be a design element on the truck. But it looked horrible, as I'm sure the whole truck would've had they actually followed Jennings requirement to put paneling on the truck to begin with. What did work though, was the surf board rack placed on the back with paneling going down both sides of the bed's cover. Also, the front of the truck looked great, with the front bumper raised into the bottom section of the Silverado's grill. So, after the judges pick the green truck as the winner (yeah, the one with no paneling at all), Jenn Jennings tells the designers of the yellow truck that they lost because they didn't put the paneling on the sides of the truck. EXCUSE ME???? Jenn, if you take those funky hats off for a second, your brain may have received enough air to realize that you just slammed a team for not putting enough paneling on the side of a truck, yet had voted the truck with zero paneling on it as the winner. Which is it Jenn? No wonder Automobile Magazine improved drastically after your departure. GM, next time, please pick qualified judges for your show, because Jenn Jennings just doesn't cut it.