What is the coolest "dad" car?
Well, there comes a time in every man's life to accomodate some little ones. What minimum four seat car makes you the coolest dad in the neighborhood?
Here are some starters:
Acura TL
Audi S4
BMW 5-Series
Cadillac Escalade
Infiniti FX
Mazda RX-8
Porsche 911
Porsche Cayenne
Range Rover Sport
Recognize this is super duper subjective but would like to hear people's opinion!
Here are some starters:
Acura TL
Audi S4
BMW 5-Series
Cadillac Escalade
Infiniti FX
Mazda RX-8
Porsche 911
Porsche Cayenne
Range Rover Sport
Recognize this is super duper subjective but would like to hear people's opinion!
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Sports cars under $35k are the coolest; anything over is a midlife crisis car. So: RX-8, Evo, G35 coupe, GTO, etc.
Some SUVs are cool, like the Murano/FX, or the XTerra/FJ Cruiser/Wrangler (I guess Hummers too, if I were a kid). The latter bunch have to have mud stains and scratches, and a winch.
Among luxury cars, and besides the G35 coupe, I'd say the A3/S3... maybe the TL and CTS for their aggressive look. More so when they were new. And if you look scary yourself, then an old black Mercedes Benz boxy sedan is just perfect.
Rocky
1950 Ford V-8 coupe
1955 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight Starfire convertible
1965 Pontiac GTO convertible
I recall him looking at a new Acura Legend back in the day, but he was putting my sister through college at the time. Mom would've killed him.
Until they are teenagers and will blame you for the hole in the Ozone layer personally,the middle east problems and the poor officiating in the Super Bowl.
If so how about a 2007 GMC Sierra Denali or Cadillac EXT ????
I know alot of Dad's depending on where he lives and his age do like Diesel Trucks. I'd tell that kind of Dad to wait for the new 07' Chevy or GMC HD 3/4 Ton since they will both be monsterous with Diesel Torque. 450 hp and over 800 lbs. of Torque are the figures I'm hearing. :shades: I'd also Buy dad as a present a good programmer from Banks, Edge, etc to push those number way up.
Rocky
That said, he likes my Maxima more than mom's Explorer for some reason. He gets behind the Max's wheel and goes "VROOM VROOM". There's a Nissan ad in there somewhere. :P
I mean, enthusiasts. (So you're cool here.)
Oh, you meant something different? Nevermind..............
However, no matter how much they enjoy riding in the back of the 911 with the top down, it never would have happened if I hadn't first funded their 529 accounts. And, if all I had left over after that was enough to buy a $20 basketball to play with them, I'd have no regrets. Cool is fleeting. Good is forever.
It's got looks, thrust, room for the dog and that way cool sunroof.
Functional, roomy, but no minivan or SUV. With the addition of some performance mufflers to bring out the rumble of the V8, you'd have a car that the kids would want you to pick them up from school with...
Maybe if their last name was Gotti.
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Mercedes E55 AMG Wagon
Volvo S60R
Neither looks like much of a cool car, unless you really know what you are looking for. Niether is all that ostentatious. Both have sub six-second 0-60 times. Family cars that leave your average high-schooler's modded frakencar in the dust.
Get next to one of her buddies at a stop light, rev your engine at them, drop the hammer and wave to them in the rear view mirror.
Both are a little pricy though.
Failing that, a 911 will always be cool.
So your kids' friends' dads will think you're cool...
Bob
A cayenne would be my choice....(Obvious to those who know me)...since it can go to snow country and offroad and go fast..
A suburban to bring all the kids and friends to places/ trips....
A minivan for everyday duty...? Not really cool...but practical.....
Mustand would be nice....
or a 1992 Ferrari Mondial covertible...( 4 seater) ..cool dad....but lots of maintenance..(goes for about $30,000 nowadays.
Rocky
As for SUVs/Trucks, at least from my area of the world, what's cool about having the same vehicle as 1/2 the other fathers? "Wow, Jimmy, your Dad's red Dodge pickup is so cool compared to the other 33 red Dodge pickups in the parking lot!" :P
OK..except the the ultra rich who do not drive...and have chaueffers.
The 911S Cabriolet offers 110% of the preformance of the base Corvette, with the kids in the back seat. Cool for dad and way cool for the kids.
My hand shook a little when I wrote that check, but I felt like it was a far less "selfish" purchase than a Boxster S would have been that could only hold my wife or one of my two daughters, but not all three of them at the same time. I had already done that with a Honda S2000 and it wasn't that "cool". But now, as my youngest says, we have a fun "family car".
P.S. 911 aside, I cannot forget my modest roots and offer that, in my opinion, it's a lot "cooler" to fund a 529 account than buy a Porsche. If I could have only done one, it would have been an easy choice.
YOu know me...I am speaking objectively. Well...we would run into the same problem with the boxster as we would the corvette...that is "not enough seats for the kids..."
so your point is well taken.... seating for 4 is always good... My 928 did well in this regard. That is one reason we sold the boxster S.....
good for you to fund BOTH !! You must have lots of fun driving... I bet you probably sometimes take the long way home..eh ?
Rocky
Yikes! You actually stuff kids into those seats? How tiny are they?!
The seats or my kids? :surprise:
Actually, our 8 year old is about 4'2" and our 11 year old is about 4'10". They each have roughly 3+ inches of legroom to spare behind me and my wife respectively. We should be good for another 2-3+ years, maybe more if we stop feeding them all three meals.
Reminds me of a funny story with my old S2000. I took it in for service once and overheard a rather large couple complaining to the sales manager that there must be a problem with their new S2000's suspension, as it was "bottoming out" during a trip to the shore in which they packed the trunk full of beer and soda. Get the picture? I took the sales manager aside and asked him to estimate their combined weight. I guessed 450, he guessed 475. I then showed him in my owner's manual that the total combined passenger and cargo capacity on the S2000 is 400 lbs. I didn't stick around to watch him break that news.
What a POS
Rocky
maybe it was designed for smaller people ?
xwesx: "there's nothing considerate to the children about having a coupe"
Sorry to single you two out (except habitat - that statement of yours is the absolute top most uncool statement ever made by man); but this thread just reeks of people having no clue about cool at all! Wise decisions are NOT COOL. Comfortable and convenient are NOT COOL. If you have to be a car nerd to respect a certain car, it's NOT COOL.
Basically if you have to explain it, it's NOT COOL.
In a high school parking lot there are two kinds of cool: ostentatious cars (bling, lowrider, or sport), and hoopties (the really, really bad ones). Anything you own because "it's a good idea" fails. But... stuff 7 of your friends into your Camry and yes, for that night your Camry is cool. From some of your ideas of cool, it sounds like you're trying to pick up other kids' car nerd dads :sick: .
Thank you for your enlightenment. For some reason, your definition of "cool" shows up as "obnoxious" in my dictionary. In my in my kids' abridged grade school version, it's simply "loser". :sick:
Maybe I should get together with some other nerd dads and vote to burn whatever dictionary your definition of cool came from. On the other hand, where would the next generation of manual labor workers come from if there weren't "cool" guys like you that dumped on 529 accounts as being un-cool? So I guess for the selfish betterment of our own economic status, we should live and let live.
I was just trying to think about it from the perspective of a 14 year old kid waiting to be picked up at school. The kid doesn't care about 529 accounts. He doesn't care about direct injection or torque distribution either, but he does know cool when he sees it.
I think our disagreement lies in wondering who determines a dad's coolness. I don't have kids and moved out of home very recently, so when I hear "dad" I think in the third person, from a kid's perspective. And hey, coolness is determined by kids; grown-ups just capitalize on it.
But I'm not giving up on the claim that if you have to explain it, it's not cool. Coolness is instinctive. It's primordial. It's brainless, which is why nerds will always be uncool even if they run all civilization. I bet there are lots of things that both of us agree are stupid (on MTV, for example), but they're still cool and we're not. And that's just how it is.
*shrugs* I already shot my credibility though. I confessed to being outside the norm even as a teenager. :sick:
:P
'Cool' dad cars, for the not fabulously wealthy (after all, haven't 911s been 'cool' for forty years now?): Acura TSX, Honda Accord coupe maybe, Scion xB in some circles, perhaps a Chrysler 300 or Dodge Charger (mom rented one, called it the 'bat cave', but I digress; oh, and sans bling, please--nothing worse than seeing someone over 40 rollin' on chrome dubs).
There is nothing worse than seeing anyone driving such ridiculousness. Well, except perhaps those inconsiderate arses that have the bass turned up so loud that it rattles everything within 1/4 mile. :mad: But, often times, these people are one in the same.
Rocky
Cool Dad cars consist of any sporty convertible, Pontiac Solstice, anything BMW that is not old lady.
and of course, there is always the Chevy Avalanch, Ford F150 or GMC Sierra/Chevy Silverado that are typical dad trucks, that most teans see as cool