It's just you. The Rover SD1 is a thing of incredible loveliness; if more cars looked like that, I'd be a happy man.
Well. Happier.
Occasionally, when I was thinking about cars.
Which isn't often at all, actually.
― grimly fiendish, Friday, 5 December 2008 19:48 (fifteen years ago) link
"He thought of cars.."
― The Most Photographed Barn on the Internet (Pillbox), Friday, 5 December 2008 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link
The Rover SD1 is a thing of incredible loveliness; if more cars looked like that, I'd be a happy man.
So would I, except when it's the Prius (#1 on my list of "cars that will look incredibly dated in five years")
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 5 December 2008 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I was behind a Prius the other night; I actually found myself thinking: "That's quite a nice-looking car."
Mind you, it was dark and incredibly foggy.
― grimly fiendish, Friday, 5 December 2008 20:05 (fifteen years ago) link
I have ridden in so many of these cars. One dude I knew in high school actually had two Renault Alliances before he got a Dodge Aspen. Another friend's Colt caught on fire in front of a Chinese restaurant.
But the Prowler - I had forgotten that one. The company I worked for in 1997 did Plymouth's website and I spent a couple days cutting a photo of that car into a nested-table javascript-rollover monstrosity. So horrible:
http://web.archive.org/web/19980113130008/www.plymouthcars.com/nav/fs_master.html?contentPage=/prowler/
― a better command of the mummy language (joygoat), Friday, 5 December 2008 20:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Is it just me, or do most of the coupe/fastback four-door sedans all look like different spin-offs of early-80s Rovers?
did rover start that style? ain't no rovers in the US (aside from the "sterling")...we first saw this design with the chevy citation:http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/chevrolet-citation-3.jpgtypcal of GMs of the era (1975-present), it found new and innovative ways to fall apart.
― Lawrence the Looter, Friday, 5 December 2008 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
^ My first car, a 1981 model, various shades of blue.
― a better command of the mummy language (joygoat), Friday, 5 December 2008 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Aren't you just asking for trouble by driving a vehicle called a "Citation?" BTW, my sister used to drive one, & for years she had to start it by opening the hood and doing something involving a ballpoint pen.
― The Most Photographed Barn on the Internet (Pillbox), Friday, 5 December 2008 20:23 (fifteen years ago) link
This was the car my family had when I was a kid (age 0-9 or so). I remembered it being a behemoth of a car, but I saw one in a parking lot the other day and it didn't really seem so huge at all.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Oldsmobile-Cutlass-Sedan.jpg/800px-Oldsmobile-Cutlass-Sedan.jpg
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 5 December 2008 20:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I remember reading an article in Automobile magazine a long time ago that was about finding the cheapest car in, like, Philadelphia. They ended up buying a Citation off a used car lot for about a 100 bucks. A few blocks off the lot, the thing threw a rod and the engine was destroyed.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 5 December 2008 20:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Next generation Prius (2010). An improvement?
http://www.motorauthority.com/content/images/2/0/2010_toyota_prius_leak_001-1015.jpg
― Super Cub, Friday, 5 December 2008 20:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Looks as smug as the people who drive it.
― snoball, Friday, 5 December 2008 20:36 (fifteen years ago) link
It looks like what Voltron's head would look like if all the little component vehicles of Voltron grouped to form a giant robot bird of prey.
― The Most Photographed Barn on the Internet (Pillbox), Friday, 5 December 2008 20:37 (fifteen years ago) link
LOL
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 5 December 2008 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link
"So in sane right-side up land the Panamera and the Eclat are good looking?"
Yes. Also the GLK looks good because it is small, for what it's worth. The first-generation Subaru Forester was an ugly-ass small SUV. A very good car, but ugly.
Rover tried to sell cars in the US before the Sterling. They did not have much success.
― Three Word Username, Friday, 5 December 2008 20:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, is there any reason Toyota had to make the Prius as ugly as they made it?
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, December 6, 2008 5:08 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
A hybrid prototypey car probably needed to have a hybrid prototypey design. Hybrid cars were so new and omg fascinating then that to scream 'LOOK AT ME I AM INTERESTING AND WEIRD' would have been advantageous.
― Brunswicki and Footescray (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 5 December 2008 22:31 (fifteen years ago) link
while i would happily take a prius if someone were to give me one, had i the $$$, i would definitely go the honda civic hybrid route. prius is kinda fugly.
― my inbox so hot (will), Friday, 5 December 2008 22:37 (fifteen years ago) link
"So in sane right-side up land the Panamera and the Eclat are good looking?"Yes. Also the GLK looks good because it is small, for what it's worth.
Yes. Also the GLK looks good because it is small, for what it's worth.
Got it. I just have to consistently take the opposite of what you like then.
Mercedes GLK = boring-ass dreadful. Does the world really need a Mercedes version of a BMW X3 / Grand Cherokee? ATTENTION M-B stop building me-too cars that no one wants and get to producing the conceptFascination
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/09/mb_conceptfasc_450.jpg
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 6 December 2008 00:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought the horribleness of the Prius was because of the need to make it super aerodymanic.
― brownie, Saturday, 6 December 2008 00:17 (fifteen years ago) link
xp Looks like a rounder Magnum to me...
http://www.autobytel.com/images/2006/Dodge/Magnum_SRT8/Lyons/400/2006_Dodge_magnum_front1_lr.jpg
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 6 December 2008 00:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't even imagine the cost for a new set of tires for half of these cars.
― brownie, Saturday, 6 December 2008 00:20 (fifteen years ago) link
It doesn't drop off in the back as radically as the Magnum does. It's also a two-door, so it's not quite as long.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3008/3073051950_3f4cac4a7c.jpg
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 6 December 2008 00:21 (fifteen years ago) link
that Caprice is awesome
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Saturday, 6 December 2008 00:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I currently drive a 2003 Malibu but my favorite of all the cars I've driven was the 1995 chevy lumina- good in the snow and drove nice (took forever to warm up tho)
http://www.governmentauctions.org/uploaded_images/lumina-741796.jpg
― brownie, Saturday, 6 December 2008 00:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Just saw a tv commercial for this: the Kia "Soul"
http://www.cars-bikes.info/d/1747-2/kia-soul-001.jpg
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 7 December 2008 03:52 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost-
That's why I'm glad that we have a first-generation Prius, because they just look like slightly generic cars, no "geewhiz I'm a hybrid" attention seeking design. The newer ones do have way nicer interiors though, it must be said.
― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Sunday, 7 December 2008 05:02 (fifteen years ago) link
(xpost) that Kia looks like a prop from "Demolition Man"
― snoball, Sunday, 7 December 2008 11:56 (fifteen years ago) link
hyundai coupehttp://media.motortopia.com/files/7852/vehicle/46c091c4412af/Rollin_Medium.jpg
― Carol Vorderman's Bukkake Sudoku (gnarly sceptre), Monday, 8 December 2008 17:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, the famed Amerikanische Wirtschaft and its ugly Automobile
I love each and every single one of those
― warmsherry, Monday, 8 December 2008 18:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I see Saturn! The car! Everywhere we are!
http://www.auto123.com/ArtImages/93569/2009-Saturn-Vue-Hybrid-i008.jpg
― warmsherry, Monday, 8 December 2008 18:03 (fifteen years ago) link
HOLY SHIT, YOU GUYS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfguWbuzVmY
1957 AURORA
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 21 September 2012 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
what in the hell...
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 September 2012 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
that grille is...does it double as a snow plow? Is that an extra seat for a small child? christ on a cracker that is freaky
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 September 2012 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
side note: I passed a Kia Soul on the freeway today and have decided that Kia's design aesthetic is 'make all our cars look like they are inflatable'
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 September 2012 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
back on the Aurora
It looks like a real-life animated car
"HEY HOW YA DOIN GUYZ"
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 September 2012 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(1957_automobile)
The most innovative safety feature, which has not been incorporated into other cars, was the ability to swivel the seats to face rearwards should a collision seem imminent.[1]
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 September 2012 22:45 (eleven years ago) link
Haha!
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 21 September 2012 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
I was just gonna say that car would immediately look better if they just flipped it around. but the swivel seats confirm that somebody was a bit confused.
― wk, Friday, 21 September 2012 22:53 (eleven years ago) link
The weird bugout windshield is the thing that gets me, even more than the scoop bumper on the front. Also, SIX headlights.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 21 September 2012 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
appaz the bugout windshield was so ppl didn't bang their heads in an acident -- and the scoop bumper is made of foam
totally a safety car
hence it's ugliness, lol (ie cf Volvo)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 September 2012 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.ballerride.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/the-homer-car-simpsons-powell-motors.bmp
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 21 September 2012 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
CRAZY VACLAV'S PLACE OF AUTOMOBILES 'She'll go 3000 hectares on a single tank of kerosene'
'Put it in H!'
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 September 2012 23:21 (eleven years ago) link
oh wait, different car
but still, my favorite Simpsons moment
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 September 2012 23:22 (eleven years ago) link
"What country is this car from?" "It...no longer exists."
Love that scene. Every time I give my friend a ride (who shares my Simpsons obsession), when we get in the car he says, "Put it in H!" And when we get out he says, "Remember: were in the Itchy lot."
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 21 September 2012 23:26 (eleven years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Microdot_1976.jpg
― thomasintrouble, Friday, 21 September 2012 23:28 (eleven years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Toyota_Van_%2780s.jpg
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 21 September 2012 23:36 (eleven years ago) link
http://cdn-static.cnet.co.uk/i/product_media/40000978/image7/440x330-rear34.jpg
It seems to be a thing these days to give cars fat arses with sticky-out lights, and this Lexus is the worst. Also the wheels don't seem to fit the size of the car, but I'm not sure if they're too big or too small, they just look wrong.
― Stewart D or Raheem? (useless chamber), Friday, 21 September 2012 23:43 (eleven years ago) link
Imagine being the person who thought this would look good
http://www.topgear.com/uk/assets/cms/9623644b-7676-42f4-a463-cacef65296f9/Large%20Image.jpg?p=110117_04:14
and then having to carry on seeing your handiwork in the wild and being all 'yep, I did well that day'.
― Stewart D or Raheem? (useless chamber), Friday, 21 September 2012 23:48 (eleven years ago) link
Wouldn't it have been easier to just take a picture of someone taking a dump on an 1800ES? Because designing and manufacturing a shitty "homage" is a really inefficient way of achieving the same result.http://de.allcardb.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/3-volvo-c301.jpg
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 21 September 2012 23:51 (eleven years ago) link
^^I think the first recent re-occurance of tail-lights needlessly sticking out from the body.
I quite like the C30 but also I think what is the point?
I saw the most disgusting bodykit on a Mercedes CLS recently but thankfully I can't find anything on GIS that's remotely like it.
― Stewart D or Raheem? (useless chamber), Friday, 21 September 2012 23:57 (eleven years ago) link