• Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • TurboWafflz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    45·
    3 days ago

    my dream car will always be the electric grandeur concept hyundai made. This is the peak of automotive design

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  • Mycatiskai@lemmy.caEnglish
    26·
    3 days ago

    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.

      • Mycatiskai@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        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

          • Mycatiskai@lemmy.caEnglish
            2·
            20 hours ago

            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.

    • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
      8·
      3 days ago

      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.

      • Mycatiskai@lemmy.caEnglish
        5·
        3 days ago

        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.

          • Mycatiskai@lemmy.caEnglish
            2·
            3 days ago

            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.

        • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zoneMEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          Super solid vehicles. I suspect these and the diesel Toyota Hilux will likely be amongst the scant archaeological evidence of the anthropocene.

          • JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            1·
            1 day ago

            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.