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JiI
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Sponsored by Gerber and Grey Goose....nice. |
Have too much Grey Goose and then you'll need the Gerber 9 months later... But what else would you expect coming from someone who would actually ride in it?
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iVolkswagen
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| VWAdam wrote: | | Now they build the same overpriced, overdone shitpiles as everyone else. Their damn cars even look like everything else now. |
Spot on. I mean..really??
They turned this
Into this??
Which is manufactured by CHRYSLER???
The only watercooled car i want is the Volkswagen GTi
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Patty B.
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| AND---made a commercial suggesting old hippies could spot the new version and feel happy again---WHAT???????????? |
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That pop top camper looks like shit. It ruins a perfectly good bus. Curtains? WTF?
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VWAdam
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My point proven. 
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LeviMan2001
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ok you guys want to talk car companies and how'd they go from... to...
how about motorcycles...
How the F*@^ do you go from...
To...
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| abgwin wrote: | | Fusillade wrote: |
I assume that is right hand drive. Does the large back opening move to the other side for left hand drive vehicles? |
Yes, this is a JDM right hand drive version. The LHD version moves the wraparound glass to the other side. Must have cost a fortune to produce stampings for both versions.
I've seen quite a few myself, both here in OK and in NYC. They may not be everyone's cup o tea, but they certainly look better than the Versa, and light years better than any Scion. |
I saw one of these ugly bastards on the interstate here in VA on thursday evening... but it had the wrap around glass on the left(as pictured) but was a LHD...
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johnnypan
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[quote="KTPhil"] | myzamboni wrote: | | thegoodfight7211 wrote: | I would LOVE to know how Subaru went from this:
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somone pulled their head out of their ass and made a swan from a duck |
I can't figure out how they got to either of those from THIS:
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Subaru "stole" vw's engine design,just like toyota "stole" the gm six cylinder and Komatsu "stole"the cummins design...the japanese took proven designs and IMO actually made them better...gotta hand it to them.. |
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Endicott jb
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The Japanese have been stealing ideas and improving them. How else would they get 295+ hp out of the same engine that is in a vanagon?
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jamiles1000
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My List of Ungly Cars:
1. 80's Toyotas
1. 90's oldsmoblies
3. Cars that AMC built when they were going bankrupt
4. Toyota Pruis-on a whiole new level of Ugly
6. Ford Escort
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jamiles1000
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Other things I don't like: speeling Ugly wrong.
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iVolkswagen
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| jamiles1000 wrote: | | Other things I don't like: speeling Ugly wrong. |
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wbrown45
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| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 9:22 pm Post subject: Big screen dropped on top on and old Altima? |
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| ubercrap wrote: | | a.wilson wrote: | | Patty B. wrote: | I tried ( for like 10 seconds) but I can't like it!!
| Lidpainter wrote: | I didn't read all 10 pages but this needs to be on the list. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Nissan Cube.
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I seen one of those in person the other day, and yeah, ..they are indeed, that gaudy! The person driving it acted like they must have been too embarrassed to be seen in it because they were flying up the highway like no ones business. |
Same experience- wasn't on I-85 South just below Atlanta was it? |
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wbrown45
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That "Cube" looks like someone dropped a big screen on top on an old Altima (coming from someone who drives a Thing!)
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Ken J
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| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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| wbrown45 wrote: | | That "Cube" looks like someone dropped a big screen on top on an old Altima (coming from someone who drives a Thing!) |
I kind of like it.
Consistently ugly: Any Saab.
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MIsandshark
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back to the aztech.....one of my customers calls his an ANGRY DUMPSTER
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34FraserNash
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[quote="johnnypan"] | KTPhil wrote: | | myzamboni wrote: | | thegoodfight7211 wrote: | I would LOVE to know how Subaru went from this:
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somone pulled their head out of their ass and made a swan from a duck |
I can't figure out how they got to either of those from THIS:
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Subaru "stole" vw's engine design,just like toyota "stole" the gm six cylinder and Komatsu "stole"the cummins design...the japanese took proven designs and IMO actually made them better...gotta hand it to them.. |
I agree that Toyota and Komatsu improved the Chevy straight-six and Cummins engines, but the Subaru Boxer engine is not, I repeat, is not based on a VW design. It was derived from the 1950s Goliath Hansa flat-four, which was made by the Borgward company of Germany. It's said that a 1970s Subaru flat-four is almost completely interchangeable with a Goliath Hansa engine, parts-wise. The Subaru FF-1 itself (their first conventional car) was also heavily based on the Goliath Hansa design IIRC, particularly in the chassis and suspension.
Now back to regular programming... 
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Marv [UK]
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From the country that gave us the design classic, the aircooled fiat 500
We had their lowest ebb a few years ago. Not many of you will have seen one over there, but from true fugliness, I give you, the
Fiat Multipla
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Fish
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Saw one of these in person yesterday. It just made my list of Ugly. The new Mini Coupe.
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Malokin Martin
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I wonder if the Aztec is actually a well made car. Sure, they're ugly as sin, but will there be some weird "in" phase in 10 years where all the survivors become cool? I mean it seems like the type II was hated on for years before they became the Barrett-Jackson type car today.
Imagine: "and next up, lot 56...." |
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