The PT Cruiser is one of the more absurd abuses of US CAFE standards, it's technically classified as a truck to skirt around fuel economy regulations. Chrysler didn't have the balls to just lie about their fuel economy numbers like VW did at the time.
My parents had a beige Rabbit when I was growing up. It made me realize how ridiculous it was for people to want these giant SUVs for their one child. My parents drove two kids around in that tiny car with room for a chile sized cello and a violin.
Eventually we moved up to a Jetta which fit 4 teens, 3 violins and a cello plus music stands for my sister's musical quartet.
Yeah my parents had a last-gen Chevy Nova (The tiny one that was actually a Corolla) when I was a kid, they made it work just fine. I have a mk5 Rabbit today probably at least in small part because my mom had a mk1 in college. Though to be fair the mk5 is nearly twice as big as the mk1, and it's right around the time that everything was starting to get chiclet-shaped so it doesn't have the nice hard lines of mk4 and below.
A Kona. A bit bigger than the ioniq 5 but we got it in 2020 and the ioniq wasn't out yet. A dealer wanted us to trade in the Kona a few years later for the ioniq but we had already paid off the Kona so we had no incentive to trade a paid off 3 year old new car for a car payment.
The inside cabin felt way bigger in the ioniq because it was built from the ground up as an EV, while the Kona had the same layout as the gas model.
Without need to have space for the transmission there no need for that channel along the floor so the center console can be shaped differently and more floor space.
My buddy had a late 80s VW Fox which was pretty cool. He broke it doing a power slide around a corner and bent the front axle when the front left tire hit the median. There was no parts for it in the early 2000s
He killed a lot of cars in great way.
He had an 80s Mercedes Benz that he took for a rip around a gravel pit that people would play around with their 4x4s. He drove in literally into the ground. Cracked the oil pan then drove it out of the pit onto the street then called a tow truck.
The tow truck driver spent 30 mins with his dispatch notating all the damage before he would pick it up, my buddy wanted it dumped at the junkyard anyways.
A Renault is as solid as an average shit taken after overdosing on laxatives. The 1.9 diesels and probably newer diesel models are somewhat tolerable (as far as I know). But it may have been different at the time of Renault 5.
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my dream car will always be the electric grandeur concept hyundai made. This is the peak of automotive design
Now that is one sexy car!
I'd love to have one too! It's a shame it's only a concept car.
My dream car is in the meme: A Mk1 GTI
You're korean?
No? Are only korean people allowed to like korean cars?
Naw not at all, it's an obscure car so thought you were a fellow Korean, they're colloquially called 각그랜져, literally angled grandeurs
Ahhh makes sense, I was just confused by the way you said it. I just saw a photo of it online a few years ago and instantly loves the design
I saw a PT Cruiser once and immediately adopted the same opinion.
The PT Cruiser is one of the more absurd abuses of US CAFE standards, it's technically classified as a truck to skirt around fuel economy regulations. Chrysler didn't have the balls to just lie about their fuel economy numbers like VW did at the time.
Isn't that like half of cars nowadays?
Literally this is why the SUV exists. Truck wheelbase with car styling because Obama fucked up CAFE.
In the US these days I'm pretty sure it's the overwhelming majority. https://www.statista.com/statistics/204342/comparison-of-us-vehicle-production/
wow that's a lot more than i would have thought
Half feels way low. There are zero electric cars that aren't SUVs and are under $100k
Exactly, it's all SUVs
https://youtu.be/JPm4de6-eTg
The older Golf was much more iconic than the ones today. I would agree with him.
My parents had a beige Rabbit when I was growing up. It made me realize how ridiculous it was for people to want these giant SUVs for their one child. My parents drove two kids around in that tiny car with room for a chile sized cello and a violin.
Eventually we moved up to a Jetta which fit 4 teens, 3 violins and a cello plus music stands for my sister's musical quartet.
Yeah my parents had a last-gen Chevy Nova (The tiny one that was actually a Corolla) when I was a kid, they made it work just fine. I have a mk5 Rabbit today probably at least in small part because my mom had a mk1 in college. Though to be fair the mk5 is nearly twice as big as the mk1, and it's right around the time that everything was starting to get chiclet-shaped so it doesn't have the nice hard lines of mk4 and below.
I do love vintage hatchbacks. Favorite car type.
I had a Honda Fit for a decade. I did replace it with an electric car that is kinda a hatchback but really it is a crossover.
Sometimes I miss the go cart like handling but never paying for gas is an acceptable compromise.
Ioniq 5 / EV6?
A Kona. A bit bigger than the ioniq 5 but we got it in 2020 and the ioniq wasn't out yet. A dealer wanted us to trade in the Kona a few years later for the ioniq but we had already paid off the Kona so we had no incentive to trade a paid off 3 year old new car for a car payment.
Oh interesting I always though the Ioniq 5 was bigger. And yes good choice keeping the paid off car, EV depreciation is no joke these days.
The inside cabin felt way bigger in the ioniq because it was built from the ground up as an EV, while the Kona had the same layout as the gas model.
Without need to have space for the transmission there no need for that channel along the floor so the center console can be shaped differently and more floor space.
Not 100% sure I have the exact right cars, but it would seem the Ioniq 5 is actually bigger. More incentive to keep the Kona!
https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/hyundai-kona-2017-suv-electric-vs-hyundai-ioniq-5-2021-suv/
To be fair, the Rabbit/Golf is perhaps the perfect car
My buddy had a late 80s VW Fox which was pretty cool. He broke it doing a power slide around a corner and bent the front axle when the front left tire hit the median. There was no parts for it in the early 2000s
That’s a good death for that car. I remember taking my mk1 Jetta coupe sideways a lot in empty parking lots.
He killed a lot of cars in great way. He had an 80s Mercedes Benz that he took for a rip around a gravel pit that people would play around with their 4x4s. He drove in literally into the ground. Cracked the oil pan then drove it out of the pit onto the street then called a tow truck.
The tow truck driver spent 30 mins with his dispatch notating all the damage before he would pick it up, my buddy wanted it dumped at the junkyard anyways.
not lying. GOD i loved my old i-mark. ratched little rust bucket
just a boxy, wind resistant car from the 80s
wretched?
urbandictionary is your friend
As it turns out, Urban Dictionary basically says it's just a misspelling of wretched.
I stand corrected. Urban dictionary is not to be trusted
This is a truke, my current car is a renault 5 and its the best car ive ever owned.
The new Renault 5, or the old one? Not gonna lie, I like both.
Old, 1994 1.4.
Super solid vehicles. I suspect these and the diesel Toyota Hilux will likely be amongst the scant archaeological evidence of the anthropocene.
A Renault is as solid as an average shit taken after overdosing on laxatives. The 1.9 diesels and probably newer diesel models are somewhat tolerable (as far as I know). But it may have been different at the time of Renault 5.
This car looks like something you would drive in PUBG.
he's right you know
My kid just turned 16 and when we're driving together she points out cars she likes and they're all from before 2008.
I'm gonna buy her some giant Buick party barge.
No matter what your driving on earth someone has a rabbit that will blow your doors off