Car thread

[dodint]

Yeah, I have friends in weird places.

[Shyster]

What did I say earlier? It's a question of function over form. The Tesla S and Porsche are both clearly set up and marketed as sedans ('saloon cars') that just happen to have a hatch to get into the trunk. The other 5-door hatches we're talking about are all glorified station wagons.

I'm just not sure how a small difference between two cars renders one some sort of huge compromise. For example, if I choose to buy a BMW 328i xDrive wagon over a 328i xDrive sedan—two vehicles that have the same engine and transmission and are functionally identical from the rear doors forward—you would say I have made some sort of lesser choice. I look at that choice and think something like "Great, now I can fit in all my gun cases and target stands when I head to the range." The wagon is slightly slower (3/10 of a second 0–60)because it weighs an extra 185 lbs., but on the other hand the wagon is actually closer to a 50/50 weight ratio.

[tifosi77]

You've not made a lesser choice by opting for the wagon over the sedan, but that choice connotes certain aspects of your lifestyle. That's all.

[redwill]

You've not made a lesser choice by opting for the wagon over the sedan, but that choice connotes certain aspects of your lifestyle. That's all.

you're a mom in the 1980s.

Makes sense. Buy a BMW 328i xDrive wagon and you're a mom in the 1980s. Buy a BMW 328i xDrive sedan and you're ... not.

[dodint]

There is a consignment shop I go to, they have nice furniture pieces. Lately they've added a few cars out front, and the latest is a Volvo wagon. The only wagon I ever really looked at with any reverence.

[Factorial]

^

When I was a youngster we had this:



Aaah, vinyl seats.

[columbia]

You might as well just castrate yourself for admitting that.

[tifosi77]

Right?

[Factorial]

Other cars we had when I was growing up:

1965 Mercedes:



1970 Galaxie 500:



1972 Olds 98 (but it was 4 door):



1974 LTD:



1976? Rabbit (in school bus yellow):



1968? Dodge Coronet. Didn't have this long and remember the horn went off in the middle of night a few times:



1978 Chevette (the car I learned to drive manual).

The following doesn't do justice as the one we had was gold on top and then black on the bottom.



1979 Caprice Classic:



That's all I can remember. I think there was another Rabbit (brown?) in there.

[JS©]

we had this Monte Carlo



and a Dodge Monaco (although by the time I got to it, the car was more bondo, filler, and off-green paint)



and this Escort in the same awful powder blue color.

[columbia]

My reviews...

Mercedes: Purchased for $900; had a bad muffler and the doors rusted out.
Volvo: I poked a bunch of holes in the backseat with a screwdriver, when I was 3.
Galaxie 500: No memory of it.
Olds 98: That was thing was a beast.
LTD: Oldest brother wrecked the front end and it was never the same.
Rabbit: See how smooth it rides.
Coronet: No memory of it.
Chevette: No A/C; piece of ****.
Caprice: A pretty slick car; also popular with early 90s, West Coast rappers.

[Willie Kool]

That Coronet is sweet.

[Factorial]

My reviews...
Volvo: I poked a bunch of holes in the backseat with a screwdriver, when I was 3.

Totally forgot about that but now remember.

[Factorial]

That Coronet is sweet.

It wasn't pimped out like that one. Fairly bland. I don't think it had power steering.

[Factorial]

My reviews...

Mercedes: Purchased for $900; had a bad muffler and the doors rusted out.
Volvo: I poked a bunch of holes in the backseat with a screwdriver, when I was 3.
Galaxie 500: No memory of it.
Olds 98: That was thing was a beast.
LTD: Oldest brother wrecked the front end and it was never the same.
Rabbit: See how smooth it rides.
Coronet: No memory of it.
Chevette: No A/C; piece of ****.
Caprice: A pretty slick car; also popular with early 90s, West Coast rappers.

If I could have any of these in mint condition I'd pick the Olds with it's 455 engine. It sounded like a train when it idled.

[Willie Kool]

Learned to drive in - 77 Caprice Wagon



My first car - 78 Impala 4 door, a total beater. I think it was 5 different colors by the time I scrapped it.



My second car - 73 Nova Hatchback - just like the picture. It had new quarter panels and paint, a nice original interior and a very healthy non-original 350. Still miss that car.

[columbia]

My grandmother had a brown 74 Nova, with a 350.
Maybe tif can psychoanalyze that for us?

[Willie Kool]

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[redwill]

Other cars we had when I was growing up:

1972 Olds 98 (but it was 4 door):

2-door = "Wow, you're a sexy beast! A hard-hatted hard-working masculine sex machine with muscles and a huge bulge and can I please give you a hand job?"

4-door = "Get away from me you child-molesting lesbian in polyester pants."

[columbia]

That better explains the car washes with "hand waxing" signs.

[Willie Kool]

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[mac5155]

My demo derby buddy would kill for most of those cars.

[dodint]

2-door = "Wow, you're a sexy beast! A hard-hatted hard-working masculine sex machine with muscles and a huge bulge and can I please give you a hand job?"

I own two RWD coupes.

Spoiler:

[mac5155]

My pap had a 2 door 67 delta 88 convertible. Talk about bad assss

[dodint]

Yeah, well, my Dad had a Dodge Aspen for a while. And a Ford EXP as well as a Shelby Charger. And a Citation X11. Egads.



Ours wasn't that nice.

Was. Not. That. Nice.

Not.
Nice.