Post cars nobody would have bought if they had more money
Alfa Arna.
Dodge Hornet
>>28918039>Alfa Romeo>Box Four>Collaboration between Nissan and Alfa Romeo>Built in Italy with parts shipped from JapanWhat the fuck?
Saturn SL1
Chevy Lumina
>>289180371986 Toyota corolla
>>28918053>RWD soul in a sea of FWD cuckboxes>unwanted
>>28918047people loved those and thought the coupe variants were very stylish.
>>28918041I didn't even know that was a thing. What Fiat is that rebranded from?
>>28918119It's an Alfa TonaleIt's also Savage By Design™
>>28918047Bought this on purpose. Twice.
>>28918037Every kia/hyundai
>>28918177I'm sorry you were/are poor.
>>28918041I know a woman that has one of these, one of two in town. Her husband has a Dodge RAM truck for his vehicle and also a 70s Challenger with collector plates sitting in the garage. She had a Dodge Dart 1.4L turbo she was proud of, which I was just like "haha, yea..." Then she started complaining about it constantly nickel and dimeing her over stupid things like seatbelt sensors at 50k miles. She eventually went back to the Dodge dealer and traded it in for a Hornet. I'm just waiting for a year from now where she starts complaining about the Hornet breaking. She also questioned why I didn't also buy a Hornet and got a Maverick instead. Her husband doesn't like the Maverick.
>>28918047I mean, the very first Saturns were actually pretty interesting cars with a totally different dealer experience. GM was trying to build good will with the Saturn brand, so they had a pretty good reputation after a few years, even if the cars were kind of junk. People would intentionally buy one over another car.
>>28918298>>28918037>>28918039>>28918047>>28918048The 90s really were a dark age for design
>>28918037They sold a lot of these shitboxes, fairly reliable, very ugly and 2nd hand they turned into a mobile home for meth heads
>>28918040gosh these were just putrid. they were bad when they launched, and then Dodge decided to peddle them onto poor people for another decade so it stuck around as a car you could buy for $300/mo for 72 months. and for some reason they had the smallest third row on the planet. these almost universally died before 120k miles, usually the transmission, but it was such a dogwater ass car that by that time it was totaled.
>>28918047nah, i’d love a saturn equivalent nowadays. small economical sedan with piecewise options that doesn’t rust? yeah sign me up
>>28918298while ugly, this is what you got if you were a Ford man at the time. the crown victoria was a much different car and almost everything else was in a different price tier. it’s not an aspirational car but it could be choice #1 for many.
>>28918343the people who bought these back then are the same retards buying byd's and mahindras nowonly difference that excels lasted 30+ years
>>28918392If they get more than 10 years out of those little dumpsters it'll be a miracle
>>28918047I loved my Saturn and it was my first choice, but I liked the 91-95 design more than the later model designs..
>>28918388They tried to sell it in my country alongside pic related, the Ford Falcon which was designed/built here. It was cheaper, had a V8 option and all models were RWD, so the Taurus was a total flop against it.
>>28918037These cocksuckers were actually pretty reliable. They had better AC than anything else in its class too
>>28918402The 90s were a substantially different time. Trucks were not nearly as popular in the beginning part of the decade. SUVs were taking off, but many weren’t willing to take that plunge. The step from a Taurus to an Explorer is a much larger leap in 1997 than 2026. There was still a mild stigma attached to owning German or Japanese. The Koreans were nonexistent or perceived as unreliable cheap shitboxes. People didn’t switch brands as often, or if they did, they remained within the same parent company. OEM’s tried better to make a car for every type of person. And people bought cars more often - there was still a negative perception of owning a 5+ year old car from how unreliable 70s and 80s cars were. So yeah, if you were a middle class guy, who only ever owned Fords (or worked for Ford), and your 1993 taurus got a little long in the tooth, you were probably replacing it with a 1998 Taurus. If you decide you want to move on from your 2020 Fusion, you’re probably looking at an Escape or moving to another brand entirely.
>>28918242>Her husband doesn't like the Maverick.There is seething that unibody trucks are Not A Real Truck (NART). It's got a pickup bed, drives like a car, and you can put stuff in the back. It's a shitty car truck, but people are happy with the shitty car truck.Me? I just use a hatchback with spring boosters. It looks downright heretical what I do to it.
>>28918392>only difference that excels lasted 30+ yearsTurns out buying old, busted Japanese tooling is still better than buying new Chinese and Indian hardware.
>>28919337Well India is and was using garbage from the UK Victorian Era and 1940's industrial cast-offs, China started out with 1950's USSR garbage and thrown into the hands of illiterate rice farmersThe poo's only stopped making these in about 2014-15 and they're like the 3rtd world, off-brand version of a late 50's Morris something or other
>>28919353>they're like the 3rtd world, off-brand version of a late 50's Morris something or otherThey literally are a licensed version of the Morris Oxford. Indian Engineering is usually a byword for complete garbage but the Ambassador acquired a reputation for being absolutely bulletproof, and could stay on the road for decades with regular maintenance.
>>28919364Having a 60 year continuous part supply will do that, plus they're about as simple as an ox-cartThey still make the Royal Enfield Bullet motorcycle practically much the same as they were last century and they've been in production in some form since the 1930's
>>28919335i don’t see why there’s so much seethe. until Ford makes a PHEV Ranger in the US the Maverick is the only real fuel efficient truck option for someone that doesn’t need to tow. The ICE ranger, colorado, Ridgeline, Gladiator, all get shit MPGs compared to the hybrid. And the santa cruz is ugly and a pos.It’s a pragmatic assessment of your situation and buying exactly the car for your needs, rather than buying something where you will waste 90% of its potential while you drive from A to B. Maybe the seethe is because it doesn’t justify others’ frivolous purchases.
>>28918402"who laughing now mudder fucker.."
