OT: Talkin' Cars Tuesday - Most Forgettable Car? (Owned or Not)
So I was reading on Jalopnik this morning and I saw a great thread about the most forgettable cars in recent memory. What say you MGoBlog? Whether you owned it or not, has there even been a car that you plain forgot existed or a car you owned that you wish didn't exist? To get us started, my dad had a 2001 Chevy Prizm for a couple years. It felt like being in a rental car every day. Thankfully it is rarely seen and most of them have gone to the crusher I think.
Entirely anonymous rides.
Because you've driven every Infiniti or Hyundai lately to be able to comment on the handling? On Infiniti, I would've agreed with you up to the early 2000s, and Hyundai up to around 2010, but cars of recent vintage have been quite good. I think the recent Hyundais have been quite stylish and handle decently well, while Infiniti went the more sporty route a while ago.
I would say that Chrysler and Toyota, to an extent, fit your crticisms.
That is like, your opinion ! My opinion is that I would not drive a infiniti or hyundai unless it was free, including gas. Even then maybe not.
Havn't been able to post after you since the concert in Crisler---How'd you like 2chainz and Lil Yachty. I thought it was excellent. Mind you I could be MGrowOld's younger brother and it was my first Rap Concert.
Totally agree. My parents had an '82 escort. It was a horrible pinkish-red color and leaked oil everywhere. A real beauty.
I try to forget about the Pontiac Aztek, but it's so ugly, it's burned into my mind.
The show created a weird niche demand for Aztek's, especially in that hideous color that Walter White's was before he (spoiler alert) sold it for 50 bucks and bought a Chrysler 300 SRT8
the complete opposite of forgettable for all the wrong reasons.
The Subaru B9 Tribeca, on the other hand, is one of those cars where you're like, "Oh yeah, that thing was a thing anywhere from 3-9 years ago..."
April 26th, 2017 at 12:40 AM ^
...talked off at a bar a year ago by a retired guy who wrote for Car and Driver, Road and Track etc who giave me a very studied verbal beatdown for the dismissive comment I made about the Aztek concept after seeing it at the Detroit Autoshow around 1999... I left that conversation thinking that I must be misunderstanding something fundamental about what makes a good car.
I love Breaking Bad, but I hate seeing this ugly car in the show!
First car. Had those giant bench seats and no cup holder, speedometer went up to 80.
See, there's the problem - you should have made sure you got the model with the 191 cu in. V6 in it. The speedometer in that model went to - I think - 110 or 120, but really you didn't want to test that POS much past 80 or so. I guess it really works out the same then.
looked like a dust buster.
He took out a deer.... a delivery truck tried to take him out.... and another delivery truck managed to punch a perfect 6" circular hole in the fiberglass. I hated that van but man it lasted forever.
I always thought it looked like a dustbuster..
That's the Cadillac of minvans!
I actually always really loved how those looked. Pretty ballsy design, actually. The ugly stepsister to those vans was the Ford Aerostar, which looked similar but with boxier corners, a stubbier snout, and itty bitty wheels. They looked like an offensive lineman with size 4 shoes.
1994 Pontiac Trans Port, in our family from 1994-2004. Somehow, Purple Heart was willing to take it as a donation when we mercifully replaced it with a new Grand Prix.
Stupid, stupid purchase.
Isn't Ford bringing back the Bronco in 2018?
2019 for the Ranger, I believe; according to the announcement Ford made at the NAIAS in January.
It was my mom's car when I was really, really little.
Totally remember sitting in the back of that thing with my brother (we were 6-ish & 4-ish at the time). In July. In Chicago. In little kid suits. Without air conditioning. In brutal traffic. Headed to the Sears Portrait Studio to get our pictures taken.
Ah, memories.
I compounded the problem by later buying a Windstar when my wife and I started having children. It was a lovely two-tone of Ready For Retirement Gold and Metallic Pea.
This is more regrettable than forgettable. 1982 Reliant K Car Station Wagon complete with the woody side panels. My parents gifted it to me upon college graduation. Fortunately, I was already engaged, otherwise, I would have been out of the dating game. Still created problems as my fiance and I would fight over who "had" to drive it to work. Lost those battles.
The one and only car I ever had that I despised from the very second I learned it was mine.
Picked up one just like the pic in 1987. Had to have it towed to the scrapyard in 1990.
April 25th, 2017 at 10:32 PM ^
AMC was the importer of the Renault Alliance. They were pretty much the most pathetic automotive OEM in history.
April 25th, 2017 at 11:32 PM ^
...on that car and that was only because she was learning to drive a stick. And poorly I might add.
Although I didn't own it, my buddy did, I got laid in the back of one of these...in a cornfield...the day of HS graduation.
"I'm gettin' laid in this baby!"
- No one ever
Yep, I owned one. As to the other question, "nope."
Chrysler Concorde. Thing had some balls to it but the gold color and old generation vibes (no offense MGrowOld) made it the most forgettable car that I have called my own. Im sure 20 years from now I will remember that and forget about my current car a Nissan Altima...
So nevermind, Nissan Altima
The Volkswagen Cabriolet. I had one back in the late 80's. It was basically a convertible rabbit. Not only was it a lackluster drive, but during the one winter I had it, as it sat parked in the snow, the snow melted up into the floor of the car. I have no idea how. So the floor of my car constantly had an half inch of water. When it was really cold, it would freeze solid, then in the spring, it thawed and got serious mildew. What a lemon.