America's Most Over-Rated!

[lovecraft68]

Beemers.

BMWs aren't doing too well with Consumer Reports either.

The car I never got was the SAAB. Things are just butt-ugly.

 

[TxRad]

That reminds me of that old joke.

"What's the difference between a BMW and a porcupine?"

"The pricks are on the outside of the porcupine!"

I guess you can substitute any car, but anywhere I've heard it, its been beamers.

The joke in Houston is about the Lexus and Escalade drivers. Does the lobotomy come with the car or do you have to pay extra.

Some of the worse case drivers in the world. 80 mph in a 60 and nearly causing a wreck to gain one spot in line.

 

[lovecraft68]

The joke in Houston is about the Lexus and Escalade drivers. Does the lobotomy come with the car or do you have to pay extra.

Some of the worse case drivers in the world. 80 mph in a 60 and nearly causing a wreck to gain one spot in line.

You know I have come to equate the Cadillac Escalade as the ultimate D-bag ride.

Really? A Cadillac SUV? What's their idea of off roading, hitting the curb when they park?

The only thing that screams ego stroker/penis extension more than that is the yuppies who own the huge pick up trucks just to own one.

 

[TxRad]

The car I never got was the SAAB. Things are just butt-ugly.

Try driving one on ice and snow and you'll get it rather quickly. Looks aren't everything.

 

[sr71plt]

The car I never got was the SAAB. Things are just butt-ugly.

I feel the same way about the current Element and Cube.

I never could figure out the appeal of a Studebaker either.

 

[TxRad]

I feel the same way about the current Element and Cube.

I never could figure out the appeal of a Studebaker either.

The only Studebaker's that ever appealed to me were the Hawks and later, the Avanta. The Hawks had the aerodynamics of the day and the Avanata sat more land speed records with a 6 cylinder than any other car around in stock form. A little prep work on an Avanta and you had a world class road machine.

 

[lovecraft68]

I feel the same way about the current Element and Cube.

I never could figure out the appeal of a Studebaker either.

I'm a 60's/70's muscle car fan, the only "luxury car that ever realy appealed to me was the Jaguar and even then I liked the sport versions better.

I think everyone should drive a smart car. It would damn funny to see thousands of them on the road at the same time.

 

[TxRad]

I'm a 60's/70's muscle car fan, the only "luxury car that ever realy appealed to me was the Jaguar and even then I liked the sport versions better.

I think everyone should drive a smart car. It would damn funny to see thousands of them on the road at the same time.

Back in the day when I used to fish Bass Tournaments, I always wore a t-shirt that said: The horsepower of the outboard should not exceed the IQ of the operator. Today the same say should apply to automobiles.

 

[oggbashan]

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I think everyone should drive a smart car. It would damn funny to see thousands of them on the road at the same time.

Recently I went to an old car meet in Kent. They had dozens of three-wheeled Reliants from the 1940s to the 1990s, and a clutch of bright orange Bond Bugs.

The parade around the central arena (= recently levelled field) showed how bouncy lightweight three-wheeled cars can be on anything but a perfect road surface.

 

[sr71plt]

I'm a 60's/70's muscle car fan, the only "luxury car that ever realy appealed to me was the Jaguar and even then I liked the sport versions better.

I think everyone should drive a smart car. It would damn funny to see thousands of them on the road at the same time.

Then you'd probably like my son-in-law's Bricklins. He has two of them on the road and a third one in paper bags.

 

[TxRad]

Recently I went to an old car meet in Kent. They had dozens of three-wheeled Reliants from the 1940s to the 1990s, and a clutch of bright orange Bond Bugs.

The parade around the central arena (= recently levelled field) showed how bouncy lightweight three-wheeled cars can be on anything but a perfect road surface.

If memory serves, some of the older three wheeled cars either had no shocks or very poor ones. The newer stuff I'm not familiar with.

 

[lovecraft68]

Then you'd probably like my son-in-law's Bricklins. He has two of them on the road and a third one in paper bags.

Paper bags. That's what the 68 barracuda I bought a couple of years ago came in. Thing wasn't much more than a shell and some blasphemer had pulled the 340 and put in a straight 6 250.

I had to rescue it. Well, that was what I told the wife anyway. Maybe some day I'll finish restoring it so she'll stop yelling at me about wasted money.

 

[TxRad]

Paper bags. That's what the 68 barracuda I bought a couple of years ago came in. Thing wasn't much more than a shell and some blasphemer had pulled the 340 and put in a straight 6 250.

I had to rescue it. Well, that was what I told the wife anyway. Maybe some day I'll finish restoring it so she'll stop yelling at me about wasted money.

How about a bone white 70 Challenger with a 340 six pack, 4 speed, and 3:70 gears. It's an RT without the graphics at the moment. I found a set of the gray and black RT graphics that are supposed to go on the red cars but I like them. The original RT graphics for this car were silver and gray.

I bought the car new. About 18 months later, a guy approached me about buying it for an up and coming movie, only he didn't like the graphics. In the end, they bought the car for only a few dollars less than what I paid for it and then gave it back to me at the end of shooting.

The movie became a cult icon of sorts but never much of a box office hit. It was one of the first car movies shot at actual speed and not sped up film.

 

[TE999]

The car I never got was the SAAB. Things are just butt-ugly.

SAAB's are no longer being built. The brand has been passed around from one manufacturer to another like a hot brick and has finally died.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

No surprise. Now that nearly all cars are front wheel drive, SAAB's key feature was no longer unique . . . and they still looked funny!

 

[sr71plt]

Hmmm. I'm pretty sure that the number of all-wheel-drive cars on the road is increasing, not decreasing. So, as for the suggestion that nearly all cars are front-wheel-drive . . .

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Okay, front or all wheel drive. Happy, now? That does not change my point, however. SAAB was great on ice and snow. Now everything is much better on ice and snow. End of need for SAAB, end of SAAB.

 

[sr71plt]

I think the real reason Saab didn't make it in the U.S. market was that they were ugly--and an expensive ugly. The talkers about cars are interested in stats and what's under the hood. That's not most American car buyers, though.

 

[lovecraft68]

I think the real reason Saab didn't make it in the U.S. market was that they were ugly--and an expensive ugly. The talkers about cars are interested in stats and what's under the hood. That's not most American car buyers, though.

Correct. Push comes to shove it was a lot of money for an unattractive car. Yes looks aren't everything, but for the money....

If you were that interested in safety you could get a Volvo cheaper and the Saab was one of the few cars that was uglier than a Volvo.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

Living in a house vs apartment

Now can we stop talking about fucking cars?

Other than gas mileage, power, and color, no one should have to give a fuck about them.

 

[lovecraft68]

Living in a house vs apartment

Now can we stop talking about fucking cars?

Other than gas mileage, power, and color, no one should have to give a fuck about them.

Living in a house is over rated?

So you would like to spend your life living in the equivalent of a dorm? People right next door, pain in the ass neighbors? No real privacy? Bullshit rules.

Nope, not over rated at all.

 

[sr71plt]

As long as my wife is around, I want to live in a house (she takes care of nearly everything). If I'm on my own, I want an apartment--preferably with a handiman on call.

And not wanting to talk about cars is Un-American. (And probably un-Someothercountries too.)

 

[Boxlicker101]

Correct. Push comes to shove it was a lot of money for an unattractive car. Yes looks aren't everything, but for the money....

If you were that interested in safety you could get a Volvo cheaper and the Saab was one of the few cars that was uglier than a Volvo.

Most auto manufacturers have designers who try to make the product as attractive as possible. I think AMC used to have an uglification department. How else to explain Ramblers and Gremlins and Pacers, which looked like pregnant guppies?

 

[lovecraft68]

Most auto manufacturers have designers who try to make the product as attractive as possible. I think AMC used to have an uglification department. How else to explain Ramblers and Gremlins and Pacers, which looked like pregnant guppies?

And AMC made the first car I ever owned. A 1974 AMC Matador! Thing looked like a giant Camaro, but not cool at all.

They had a decent looking car in the Hornet though and there was another AMC that was actually pretty cool, but the name is eluding me.

 

[TxRad]

And AMC made the first car I ever owned. A 1974 AMC Matador! Thing looked like a giant Camaro, but not cool at all.

They had a decent looking car in the Hornet though and there was another AMC that was actually pretty cool, but the name is eluding me.

Believe it or not the Matador won a couple of NASCAR race with Bobby Alison driving and some TransAm races back in the 70's against the cameros, mustangs and Barracudas.

The Hudson Hornet was one of the fastest cars in it's day and won a good number of the early NASCAR races. Hudson became Rambler and Rambler stated they were more interested in the human race than in Racing. Rambler became AMC and they produced some exceptionally fast cars for a small company.

The AMC that was cool was the Avanta. I got the pleasure of driving one for a year. It was part of a nationwide test. It had a big 6 cylinder in it and would scream.