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7 year old C2S with 25k on it.
I've only seen pictures, but it is bright yellow.
His other one is red, so I told him he needs to get a black one to complete the German flag theme.
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If you click on the picture of the rear end, you can see that he has a 356 registry license plate surround. I'd think those guys would roast him, if it was a fake.
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From browsing around the internet, it appears that plenty of 356 era Porsche owners modify their cars to look like more expensive models, though.
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I own a '15 (first-gen) Cruze which my younger daughter drives, too. It feels heavier, doors thicker, etc., than my '17, but I prefer everything else about the '17. The '15 to me is tight in the back seat; the '17 is surprisingly large. The interior finish (chrome trim and cloth on the instrument panel) wins hands-down too IMHO. The '17 has stop-start and the '15 does not, but I don't mind the stop-start feature.
My buddy asked me why my '17 had both digital MPH readouts and a large, round analog speedometer. I replied that you can turn off the digital, but I like it, and without the analog, you'd have a big blank space there, which I detest in cars--ones that have all gauges in the center, or top of the instrument panel, and have nothing, or almost nothing, in front of the driver...yuck! Reminds me of a Willys Jeep, LOL.
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Duh, I see now, after I commented about the 'dustbuster' vans, that the original conversation was about the Venture and its ilk.
Those, I can speak of with some authority, as I had two new Ventures and an Uplander.
Our first Venture was our favorite--navy blue, camel cloth of a handsome pattern. Rode smoothly and was quiet. It was a lease so in '02 we bought a new Venture in kind-of a khaki color. Traded that on the new '05 Uplander. I thought the Uplander looked much-nicer than other vans, although the rear-end view was obviously-Venture. They stiffened up the body structure I'd read, due to the not-great crash tests of the Venture. It resulted in notably harder ride IMHO. All three of mine were reliable--total mileage about 191K between the three--36K on the first; 60K on the next, and about 95K on the last. I really can't remember anything out-of-pocket on any of them.
We made a mistake in not getting the center captain's chairs in the Uplander. There were two small almost jump seats there, with no armrests. Go around a corner and the only thing keeping you in your seat was the shoulder and lap belts.
We went upstairs to a second floor balcony the length of the house and he handed out full auto rifles to the three of us to shoot at floating jugs in the canal. No police ever showed up. I asked what he did and he said real estate.
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With the passing of time, I would say the Cube looks far-worse, and the Juke, maybe not as bad but the proportions of the Juke leave me asking, "Huh?".
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Speaking of early test drives, I remember when I was a student and the PT Cruiser hit the street and became a big fad for a short time. A friend of mine was interested in it, we saw the first one at the local dealer, and they let us take it for a test drive, alone. People pointed and looked at it, and I think someone even asked something about it. Funny how it became so ordinary so fast.
But then, along comes the Aztek. Its grille has what I call the "1961 DeSoto effect", where the upper part of the grille theme has nothing whatsoever to do with the lower. The high beltline and cowl, owing to its minivan origins, just didn't give the overall style a very good flow. And, it looked like different parts of the rig were designed by different committees, who were not in communication with each other. And when they brought all those parts together, they just made them fit the best they could.
And, since then, it seems like many vehicle designs have gone for a similar theme...clumsy, awkward proportioning, style features that just don't flow well, exaggerated lines, creases, etc, and so on.
One thing I'll say for cars of the late 50's, such as a '58 Oldsmobile, for instance...it's more of what I'd call "kitchen sink" syndrome. As in, they throw everything at it, but the kitchen sink, and just go with what sticks. But, the basic body, proportioning, etc was at least nice. You could clean up a '58 Oldsmobile and make it look nicer by simply stripping off some of the excess. But, you can't do that with an Aztek. Or, most modern vehicles.
I blame Toyolex for modern design messes - it seems they ran with the overdone theme, and as designers/stylists seem to be copycats, everyone else got on board with the way to make appliance cars appear less boring.
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However While many color combinations of Aztek don't look good to my eye, I like most of the Azteks with a blending color all over, e.g., the dark red. And there are other cars such as the Juke and Element, that grate on my eye.
Some folks don't like the Rendezvous while I liked it better than the Aztek then. We drove our son and belongs using the room in a friend's Rendezvous to OSU to move into the tower dorm when he was a freshmen. A reasonably large amount of room.
I'm relieved to see some examples of folks' opinions of poor design being posted and they are a mix of cars.
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The Ciera/Celebrity etc wagons weren't bad looking, along with period Cavalier and rebadge wagons. On a GM theme, I think these wagons are an underappreciated forgotten design that was pretty slick:
I think maybe 75% of full sized Chrysler sales in the fuselage era were green. My grandpa had a green on green with a green vinyl top Newport 4 door HT.
I see Celebrity and equivalent wagons around here on the road. Some in worse shape than others, but some are amazingly good. I suspect they lived in someone's garage as a second vehicle so they have low mileage and were protected from the elements and salt.
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Agreed about the disjointed styling revolution. I feel more and more that way about today's vehicles, a time when elegant-looking designs such as Tesla, Ford (many, not all), and the "new" Continental stick out like a sore thumb within the sea of blistered, struck-with-the-ugly-stick offerings. When designs such as VW's offerings, which are just so pleasing on the eyes, are called "boring."
Hopefully there will always be a place for true masters of design, as I will always be within the market of those eager to appreciate them (and, at times, perhaps even buy).
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I think Ford was called the wagon master back in those days for good reason. But I do agree that the GM A car wagons were very cleanly styled.
From the Truman library comes this pic, in honor of V-E Day. HST was a Mopar man and kept the date of Germany surrender on his personal license plate. This is his '72 Chrysler Newport Royal
We could use some Truman's today who put country over party.
Chevy might have suffered a bit here, because GM had Pontiac, Olds, and Buick wagons to fill the more luxury-oriented crowd, whereas Ford just had Mercury. I think once GM started downsizing though, the Chevy wagons got more nicely trimmed.
Edit: By 1976, the last year a mastodon-class Chevy went up against a mastodon-Ford, Chevy was taking the lead in wagons...about 72K full-sized Chevy wagons, compared to 63K Fords. By 1979, when the Fords were downsized and again on equal footing with the downsized Chevies, Chevy was swamping them...around 120K+ Impala/Caprice wagons, compared to around 58K LTD/Country Squires. But, the Panther in general didn't sell all that well, at first. That was an era where it seemed GM could do no wrong, and the public was caught up in the euphoria of how wonderful the downsized cars were. Of course, they didn't have time yet for the under-sized THM200 trannies to start failing in mass quantities yet, or the Buick 231s and Pontiac 301s self-destructing prematurely, and the tigher emissions controls of '79 to start acting up, quite yet...
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Lovely day today too, only saw one oldie out, and it was also unusual. Green and white 57 Ford convertible, non-retractable (soft top). I seen to recall it having normal US market side trim, but it had an odd grille with a dip in the middle like a Canadian market Meteor.
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2009 BMW 335i, 2003 Corvette cnv. (RIP 2001 Jaguar XK8 cnv and 1985 MB 380SE [the best of the lot])