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Powershift posted:in 30 years ya'll are gonna be confused old men when your grand childen covet the Taurus X, or the first gen prius. Hummer H2s, jellybean Taruses, first gen Excursions
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KakerMix posted:Hummer H2s, jellybean Taruses, first gen Excursions "Grampa, why didn't you buy a Cadillac ELR when there were $20k discounts on them? they're work $4 million dollars now!"
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May 16, 2018 23:18
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KakerMix posted:Hummer H2s, jellybean Taruses, first gen Excursions Them jellybeans can be blamed on the 90s
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May 16, 2018 23:43
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H2s are already becoming cool because of how utterly balls to the wall insanely retarded they are If I wanted a giant SUV that drank like a depressed Irish Catholic I'd totally get an H2 over a bitchmade Escalade. GM should kill Cadillac and bring Hummer back.
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May 16, 2018 23:51
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Regarding thr cars of 10 to fiteen years ago, one thing that fascinates me but which I'm not really qualified to speak about is the depiction of "old" cars in media. Like, it seems like "old car" still means a late 60s early 70s muscle car, or at least it's lingered longer than it should have. Like, way after young people were owning and hot roding these cars, they're still being used in movies in what are now anachronistic positions. Some of it is because they're iconic, some of it because the movie makers are old's, but some of it is I don't know what. Like, where's the movie where a poo poo teenager is wrenching on the last gen of the old camaro, or whatever? (Nowhere because no one gives a poo poo about 90s pony cars).
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May 17, 2018 00:01
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boomers are still well in control of modern media, and to them "20 year car" will always be something from the 60s. There are obvioulsy rare exceptions. https://www.imcdb.org/m1276104.html
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May 17, 2018 00:06
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Jack B Nimble posted:(Nowhere because no one gives a poo poo about 90s pony cars). The Mustang was a turd but the fourth gen f-body owned and still owns.
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May 17, 2018 00:29
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Wheeee posted:The Mustang was a turd but the fourth gen f-body owned and still owns. good drivetrain but the rest of the car was ugly and bad
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May 17, 2018 00:44
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Just watch a TV auction. The entire thing is one big boomer circle jerk. This is of course because they've hoarded all the wealth and are desperately trying to regain their youth
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May 17, 2018 01:01
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BraveUlysses posted:good drivetrain but the rest of the car was ugly and bad The final couple years looked good and the WS6 Trans Am in black looks wicked. They also handle extremely well, at least on smooth pavement because lol live axle. They were still a GM product tho so there's probably like, ten, still kicking around in which all the electronics work.
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May 17, 2018 01:07
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If I had money, I'd open a car museum for cars from the 70s, 80s, and 90s that nobody ever preserved. I would call it the Malaiseum
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May 17, 2018 01:27
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In 1960, there were 73 million registered vehicles on the road. In 2016 there were 263 million. With almost 4x the number of vehicles on the road, there's just not going to be the same mystique around "classic" vehicles. There are too many of them.
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May 17, 2018 01:37
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bull3964 posted:In 1960, there were 73 million registered vehicles on the road. In 2016 there were 263 million. I don't think you are fully appreciating the majesty of the Nissan Murano Crosscabriolet.
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May 17, 2018 01:45
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bull3964 posted:In 1960, there were 73 million registered vehicles on the road. In 2016 there were 263 million. Yeah, but most of them were filler. Ford sold 1.4 million 65-66 mustangs they haven't sold that many in the US from 05-present combined. Once you take out the appliance cars nobody will ever care about, there's probably fewer worth owning from 2016 than there is from 1960.
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May 17, 2018 01:58
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Twerk from Home posted:I don't think you are fully appreciating the majesty of the Nissan Murano Crosscabriolet. The last cool car Nissan made. I still love it.
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bull3964 posted:In 1960, there were 73 million registered vehicles on the road. In 2016 there were 263 million. Yeah, but popular models sold a lot individually. The 66 Chevelle for example, because I happen to have the numbers, produced something crazy like 471,000, almost all of which were domestic. Of course, most rusted to oblivion. I assume there was much less competition and choice, modern cars don't seem to turn numbers like that, do they?
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FuturePastNow posted:If I had money, I'd open a car museum for cars from the 70s, 80s, and 90s that nobody ever preserved. You might be interested in the Lane motor museum: https://www.lanemotormuseum.org/
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BitBasher posted:Yeah, but popular models sold a lot individually. The 66 Chevelle for example, because I happen to have the numbers, produced something crazy like 471,000, almost all of which were domestic. Of course, most rusted to oblivion. Ford sold almost 900k F-150s alone last year, with 2 other trucks selling over 500k, and that's only in the US. Several cars sold over 300k units as well.
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Minnesota Mixup posted:Ford sold almost 900k F-150s alone last year, with 2 other trucks selling over 500k, and that's only in the US. Several cars sold over 300k units as well. Wow, I stand corrected.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:You might be interested in the Lane motor museum: https://www.lanemotormuseum.org/ Not one picture of the giant wtf military floating transport on the homepage. That place is awesome sauce.
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May 17, 2018 03:21
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Twerk from Home posted:I don't think you are fully appreciating the majesty of the Nissan Murano Crosscabriolet. One of the few things made in the past few years that is so, so very bad it kinda wraps back around to being awesome. In a terrible way. Being rare helps.
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May 17, 2018 03:26
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Like the Aztek, the Caliber was another car that was too far ahead of its time...
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May 17, 2018 04:05
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I don't care what anyone thinks, I want a 5.0L mustang in the worst way. It would own to have two variants of the same engine in two vehicles. My truck sounds fuckin great and my car sounds like poo poo.
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BloodBag posted:I don't care what anyone thinks, I want a 5.0L mustang in the worst way. It would own to have two variants of the same engine in two vehicles. My truck sounds fuckin great and my car sounds like poo poo. Doooo it. Car is stupid fun. 
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May 18, 2018 16:53
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I want one too. 
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I like the mustang, it looks great, but from a handling perspective the camaro blows it away. I wish GM would make a car with the camaro's guts, but which isn't hideous to look at and see out of.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:I like the mustang, it looks great, but from a handling perspective the camaro blows it away. I wish GM would make a car with the camaro's guts, but which isn't hideous to look at and see out of.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:I like the mustang, it looks great, but from a handling perspective the camaro blows it away. I wish GM would make a car with the camaro's guts, but which isn't hideous to look at and see out of. The last time I drove a Camaro SS, it felt like it was trying to kill me in every corner. If that is BETTER handling than the Stang, I don't want to go anywhere near that thing.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:I like the mustang, it looks great, but from a handling perspective the camaro blows it away. I wish GM would make a car with the camaro's guts, but which isn't hideous to look at and see out of. It also has an almost entirely useless trunk which hurts the ability to use it as an only car, and if it's going to be an extra vehicle for funsies then gently caress it get an MX-5 or a used Cayman or something really pure. It's actually impressive how much GM miscalculated and hosed up with that platform, as seen in the demise of the rather unloved ATS. That shade of blue posted above is gorgeous too, Ford really has some of the best paint colours among mainstream manufacturers.
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In the real world the Mustang is a way more livable car than the Camaro in almost every way. Who cares about some faster lap times when driven at 10/10 when you can't see out of the drat thing or put more than a backpack in the trunk. The Mustang GT is still a loving fast car that handles well in normal circumstances and looks good doing it.quote:if it's going to be an extra vehicle for funsies then gently caress it get an MX-5 or a used Cayman or something really pure. Precisely.
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Wheeee posted:It's actually impressive how much GM miscalculated and hosed up with that platform, as seen in the demise of the rather unloved ATS. Rear leg room and some interior details are what killed the ATS. The legroom is lulz tiny in the standard wheelbase ATS sedan, which is why the coupe is sticking around and the sedan is dying. The rest of the world should have gotten the LWB Chinese market ATS-L, but no.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:I like the mustang, it looks great, but from a handling perspective the camaro blows it away. I wish GM would make a car with the camaro's guts, but which isn't hideous to look at and see out of. 
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The lack of cooled seats took the ATS off my potential list. I know it's a picky thing, but it's pretty much a necessity for me.
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May 18, 2018 19:57
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Not that one! A different one, that they didn’t make!
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Wistful of Dollars posted:The lack of cooled seats took the ATS off my potential list. I know it's a picky thing, but it's pretty much a necessity for me. Same. That and the piano black plastic capacitive touch center stack. Ugh.
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Wistful of Dollars posted:The lack of cooled seats took the ATS off my potential list. I know it's a picky thing, but it's pretty much a necessity for me.
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May 18, 2018 20:13
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YOLOsubmarine posted:Not that one! A different one, that they didn’t make!
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YOLOsubmarine posted:Not that one! A different one, that they didn’t make! That one is too boring looking. Is it an Impala or Malibu???????
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heffray posted:Cooled seats are probably the most surprising favorite feature about my SS (the LS3 and magical magnetic ride shocks were not surprises). Cloth seats are fine, but I don't think I'd do leather again without active cooling. Same. Never had them before and I got them in my truck. I thought I wouldn't care, but a black truck in Texas heat, those things own bones. fknlo posted:That one is too boring looking. Is it an Impala or Malibu??????? My buddy with the 700hp one gets that question all the time "is that the new malibu?"
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