So, if Ca3799 starts a major trend with polka dotting cars, would that not ultimately defeat the original purpose?
I did cross my mind…
Wow- I was surprised that so many folks were nice about it. Maybe the people who don’t care for it are just being well behaved today. I took a tiny beating on Imgur- “clown car” and “When a Prius just isn’t embarrassing enough.”
LOL!
I don’t care. I like it and so does the kid.
Obviously Dopers have better taste than those dweebs
The dots are removable. After everyone else does it the OP can just take them off 
I did a google search for polka dot cars and came up with some images of other colors than white that seems pretty decent for lighter colored polka dots.
And start yet another trend - solid color cars!
I was coming in to the thread to tell you how ridiculous this is and how much I hate it. But I don’t hate it. I like it. It would make me smile if I saw it on the road. Damn you, CA3799.
For 10 or 15 years I’ve fantasized about zebra stripes on my pickup, ala the old Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom (Daktari?). Can’t really get into being recognized everywhere though.
If the stickers are left on long enough, it will be a solid color car with shiny circles.
Like champagne bubbles!
I saw those comments when I looked at the picture you linked. I believe comments like “when a Prius just isn’t embarrassing enough” come from gentlemen extremely concerned with their image with the women-folk, and they believe that nothing sends to the women-folk the clear message that “I have an enormous penis” like a pickup with a 6.4 liter Hemi with dual exhausts going into tin can mufflers, so that merely starting the vehicle is an event heard around the neighborhood and sets off seismic detectors ten miles away.
It is presumed that women instinctively know that the owner of such an obnoxiously loud vehicle must be endowed with massive genitals, although I suspect that most real women would know that the owner of such a vehicle must have been shortchanged at birth with a very small brain. But to these folks, some of whom seem to have commented on your picture, the Prius is just nowhere in the penis-size competition.
I believe most women who see men who drive those oversized pickup trucks must be, um, compensating for something. And given how aggressively they typically drive, one would tend to assume that they are either very fond of methamphetamine or they do indeed have an excess of testosterone the they cannot seem to get into proper balance.
The idea of a polka-dotted car made me shudder just to think about it…but somehow, against all odds, you’ve pulled it off. It looks fabulous!
Those people are jerks. I was all snarked up and ready to go based on the thread title but seeing the car changed my mind immediately, and you can see similar responses in the thread. It really does look good.
I absolutely love it and the thought that you’re so dedicated to your child to pull it off. Good on you! And of course, now I’m jealous that I have no polka dots. Perhaps on my electric blue car I should get some daisies. 
Another vote for “I didn’t think I’d like it, but really I do!”. Way cool.
I have long considered (but never got around to it), putting a large other-colored dot on each of the fenders of my car, positioned in such places that they will be easily visible from some distance in crowded parking lots. One of these days, I’ll get a round tuit (or several), and I can stick that on my car.
LOVE IT!
I always had a fantasy to buy an old Volkswagon, paint it shiny red, put big black spots on the sides/back, and drive me a ladybug 
Dr. Killpatient! Dr. Killpatient!
(is that too obscure?)