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The answer is always 944

For a car that was originally penned 62 years ago and was last built 43 years ago, I think the VW Karmann Ghia has held up very well.

This here is a 20-year-old design.

Classic lines. Too bad the rest of these GM Saabs don’t hold up as well as their lines...

“Reborn Electric Thing” is a great name for a crappy cover band that would play Tuesday nights throughout the summer at Six Flags.

Oh man oh man oh man.

Mercedes 450 SL. Absolutely timeless, and I want one so goddamn bad.

With hatchbacks coming back so hard, I’d wager most people wouldn’t realize this design was conceptualized in 1993.. Though the viggen bumper is newer, basically this was unchanged since 1994. I’d say this is one of the best aging designs out there.

Look at this big ass brown wagon, look at it because it checks all the right boxes for you, and this is what YOU will buy.

People in general, including older established riders, are not riding anymore because of the head in the clouds, fingers on the phone cagers who make riding a terrifying, near-death experience.

Yeah, let’s blame it on those pesky millenials! Let’s not blame it on a range of motorcycles where the lightest weighs as much as the Death Star, the cheapest is still fucking expensive, the most powerful couldn’t pull the dick off a chocolate mouse, the most sporty has the dynamic prowess of a bag of shot badgers and…

Good.

(and take your irritating exhaust pipes with you on the way out of the USDM)

I think the Metro gets the stepped line bc it’s suppose to be city blocks/turns.

When my grandchildren ask me what the 90s were like is it okay if I show them this photo?

Weird, I don’t know how I missed you at the dealership, I just got back from that same year. This was my girlfriend’s Geo Storm that she actually did purchase in Towson in 1990. It wasn’t a fast car, but it was great-looking and a lot of fun. I miss it.

A couple of things make it not totally stupid. Small size and low weight for its power, as you mentioned. That’s actually kind of a big deal for a hybrid. Also, many of the issues inherent in rotaries are reduced when you only need them to spin at a fixed rpm while attached to a generator.

There is someone who drives an LX470 to my office every day, alone, and parks it over the line with the wheels turned. It’s offensive in just every way: too big and thirsty for one person, a prestige brand version of a car that is already firmly in the luxury price range, and parked obnoxiously.

How is it that Toyota and Nissan and Lexus and Infiniti’s design directions are somehow getting more and more baroque and overdone and cluttered and crazy, and somehow Daihatsu is quietly out there designing lovely things like this?