Cars that I don't like. (trigger warning)

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[@PlutoTheSynth]

"cars i dont like" 51% history 37% cars he likes 12% cars he doesnt like

[@AB0BA_69]

Adds up to 100%. Checks out! 😂

[@nerdodragonnerdpl4167]

Oh no...tragedy...anyways

[@giuliano8031]

@@nerdodragonnerdpl4167 The Top Gear reference that made my day again, thank you stranger!

[@nerdodragonnerdpl4167]

​@@giuliano8031pleasure on my side Homie:D

[@zlette]

Beep boop!

[@rabidrabbitshuggers]

“It looks like it’s permanently wearing 80’s reading glasses” My god is that a perfect descriptor

[@jhondhoe8656]

Permanent Grandma

[@1985toyotacamry]

I feel called out that was my first car.

[@jakewestbrook3214]

you stole my profile picture...

[@23Mondeo]

What timestamp is it at?

[@maleq]

@@23Mondeo 1:35

[@caza3964]

Hey Wade and James, we are 95% certain my great-grandmother purchased your Morris 1100 car new in Sep 1966 then my mum drove it until about 20 years ago! We have more info if you are interested. It was an awesome episode and we are looking forward to seeing what you do with it, thanks for rebirthing the car! 🙂

[@lochlandenton9790]

James offered to buy my Morris 1300 about 15 years ago, left a note on my windscreen. He was driving his Fiat Nikki at the time and showed me his 1100 project that he was supercharging! He was a super nice guy!

[@DiamondKingStudios]

I’m liking commenting so the algorithm lifts up this comment.

[@Haniibooru]

Bump, they need to see this.

[@CrashSpyro98]

Bump!!

[@premierjohn4321]

Bump

[@YokiDokiPanic]

"Corporate spreadsheet car" You just managed to describe the feeling I haven't been able to describe perfectly. I like cars that look like they're designed by human brains, faults and all, than some stakeholder approved super car that was made to check boxes off a list of demands by empty suits who would never even drive the cars they sell.

[@RichieRouge206]

Agree 100%

[@alexsaffamerica]

And the rise of AI is not helping.

[@shraka]

I think this is a better update to the term "design by committee". It's not a problem of too many voices, but rather cars (or just things) designed by a soulless suit who doesn't care about anything but it's ROI, channelled through overly atomic and abstract and necessarily simplistic data sets. Corporate spreadsheet design.

[@JonnyFlash80]

Empty suits is a good description. They are the corporate line pullers that are responsible for so many mediocre products.

[@Snail_With_a_Shotgun]

Anyone who thought you wouldn't like the PT Cruiser or the Multipla wasn't paying attention, haha

[@DariusFlynt_2012]

I have beef with only the PT Cruiser. No matter how easy it is for them to die at a scrapyard, someone is still selling one to an unfortunate soul who knows nothing about cars, only for them to be stranded not 4 miles away from when they drove it.

[@kmorrison4433]

Bingo! That's exactly why I thought of that AMC model. Content related response. Here's another one, the Chevrolet Lumina minivan, aka the dust buster on wheels!

[@kmorrison4433]

I do secretly like AMC Eagle, especially the "sporty" 2 door. Suppose that the nearest thing North America got to a shooting brake!

[@themanguy2110]

@@kmorrison4433clearly you forgot about the 3rd gen corolla liftbacks

[@dglcomputers1498]

The Multipla is a car I "get", the 3+3 seat configuration is useful it's just not all that reliable or well built. Now the PT Cruiser is a car I really don't understand, badly made, cheap interior and a massive turning circle. My step-mum had a PT Cruiser cabrio around 2007 for a couple of years and it was terrible, a 2.4L but still slow and was not exactly fuel efficient, the 1.7L Diesel KIA 'ceed that replaced it did about double the MPG whilst being faster, better made and cheaper (although the cost difference didn't matter as it was a Motability car and none required any extra money).

[@thatchris1626]

God the "blob" is such a good description for the SUV infection spreading around. People just need to buy estate's holy shit

[@averagekerbalpilot322]

A lot of them, especially ones from the likes of Ferrari are basically tax write offs because they weigh over 2800kg and get used for the purposes of the business they are often bought through so they can be written off But yeah estates are way more practical

[@thatchris1626]

@@averagekerbalpilot322 I lament their existence because they all look so similar. I get that there's coping visual ques or designs of an era but holy shit these *blobs* are just slightly defined by the brand's slightly different trim or grill shapes and even then it's a stretch. In fact sitting here at my desk I can look out my window and see 3 none characteristic blobs

[@florabee9283]

I call the blobs- "crabs" because of how so many creatures in nature evolve into looking like crabs.

[@nickrustyson8124]

@@averagekerbalpilot322 Too bad they don't make estates anymore, thanks Germany fucking bastards

[@mr.bobcyndaquil4214]

I mean, I use more crass terms like crossover c*nts, but 'blob' is perfect for polite company.

[@cucumberwhale]

A local dude got a white mk4 supra round here to get chicks but only dudes chat him up about it.

[@nickrustyson8124]

Honestly there is nothing dumber than buying a sports car to get chicks, you're better off using a Old Deville because at least with that the interior is very comfortable, with a sports car you got no room and it feels like ass

[@PixyEm]

@@nickrustyson8124 Don't know why guys think that a "cool car" would get them girls, the average person really doesn't care about "zero sixty em-pee-gee hachi-roku"

[@toyotacorollaaltis8613]

@@PixyEmWell thats true in some cases like you go get an S-class Merc every gold digger gonna want you but something like a Supra where most people just say “what a kinda cool old Toyota” isn’t getting any women

[@bcj842]

That's kind of like a woman buying a Louis Vuitton bag to try to get guys.... A ridiculous idea.

[@yukikofujiwara2144]

Meanwhile, I'm over here looking past Supras going "Yo, is that a Volvo 240? THE Swedish meatball?!"

[@StarHunter28]

"I lusty for the justy- ITS ALSO CALLED THE TRENDY?!" Had me dying

[@TheLastCrankers]

Your sense of car styling is all backwards. I love it

[@TedJM]

at least the hideous cars look different to every other car on the road, yes they might be uggo af but at least theyre recognisable and funky looking

[@Apokathelosis]

Not completely - he hates SUV-Coupe abominations

[@jwalster9412]

​@@Apokathelosis brand: "what should we categorize our non sporty, non utilitarian, vehicle" Designer: "we should label it SUV.."

[@kayagorzan]

@@Apokathelosis I also somewhat stand by that sentiment

[@MacPhantom]

Sort of. That mercedes piece of wheels he has is unbelievably disgusting. At least he also despises those monstrosities like the GLC coupé. The rest of his fleet, especially the nuggets, are okay (Falcon) to absolutely fantastic (free car/Charade; Tony)!

[@JamieBainbridge]

This video has such "sitting on plastic chairs on a driveway on Friday night with your mates drinking and shooting the shit" vibes. Very comfy. You sailed past the Starfire motor, aka Misfire/Backfire. Literally a Holden Six with two cylinders cut off!

[@GarbageTime420]

Actually in the rough edit the tangent about it got so long winded that it was better to just ditch it. It deserves it's own video 👍

[@BloodEyePact]

Now what I want to see is unscripted, unedited, Dank and James just talking cars for an hour.

[@john_barnett]

@@GarbageTime420 dewit

[@zekenelsons2069]

@@BloodEyePact get these boys a podcast. I would listen to nothing else.

[@benanderson89]

As a Brit that likes old MG, modern MG is a mixed bag. Cars like the zero-star MG5 are rebadged Chinese crap that should never have an MG badge near them, but then cars like the MG4 XPower and Cyberster exist because the MG team in London (which is where they're headquartered and do all the interior designs and drive dynamics) fought for decades to get SAIC to let them build something worthy of the MG badge. Their first attempt was for MG's 90th anniversary; they turned the little MG3 (which is basically an old Rover Streetwise) into a hot hatch with an absurd wing, trick suspension and 210hp called the MG3 Trophy 90. Reception was good, coverage was good, customers seemed interested and SAIC turned it down. The only reason we have the MG4 and Cyberster is because when SAIC wanted to demo their new electric platform, MG designers in the UK BEGGED SAIC to make the concept car a big sports coupé with an MG badge on it. If SAIC had any sense they'd let MG be more autonomous like Geely did with Lotus and Volvo. Hopefully the Cyberster is a success so SAIC will let MG do more wild shenanigans.

[@davidemelia6296]

LOL. You Poms are the world champs at pumping out crap cars. If MG are doing Chinese re-badges, it would be a huge step up.

[@daniel.holbrook]

SUVs make me angry because it's firsthand proof at how competent big businesses have become at gaslighting the average unthinking consumer into believing they need something they otherwise wouldn't ever want, all the while having them think that it's their own decision to buy one instead of just the result of omnipresent programming and marketing

[@segarallychampionship702]

They don't even have more powerful engines. At least in the EU, you're really just buying a 20% heavier hatchback/sedan with a bigger footprint. A close relative of mine has a current-gen Kia Sorento and on the inside I swear it's only as big as an estate (like a VW Passat), even though it's a huge car. And until you get to the luxury-brand landships from BMW or MB, they all still have a tiny inline-4 in them. I miss the early 2000s - mid 2010s MPV craze. At least they had practical reasons to be big.

[@MazeFrame]

Lies, stinking lies, statistics, marketing. All those Bagger 288's on the stroads carting round one person because bicycles are the devils work!

[@hyperionphoenix6106]

Lovely BMW Z4 in your thumbnail there mate Update: Thoroughly enjoying the war I’ve started 😂

[@joempoem478]

You're not afraid of man's wrath, now are you?

[@J-M784]

@hyperionphoenix6106 It’s actually a Supra.

[@bluerazor7049]

HOw DaRe yOU!

[@hyperionphoenix6106]

@@J-M784 the joke is that apart from the styling, it's mechanically a Z4 😂

[@jwalster9412]

I thought that was a Toyota Z4. It clearly has a Toyota badge.

[@kingawsume]

I miss when light trucks were light trucks and not emmissions loopholes so that car companies could profit more off less R&D. Bring back wagons! Bring back eco-hatches!

[@SoundShinobiYuki]

My Dad played drums. He had a 1981 station wagon from roughly 2005 to his death in 2017. It was an absolute piece of SHIT by the end (the most memorable part was when the back bumper fell off and he just welded it back on in the driveway when we got home.... he was a mechanic, luckily). But he wouldn't get another car because he couldn't get station wagons for him drum kit any more! 😆

[@thehousecat93]

⁠even Subaru, the long time champion of the station wagon after the heyday of the Buicks etc, brought everything to the SUV standard. The Outback isn’t the tallest vehicle but it isn’t car height.

[@De19thKingJulion]

​@@SoundShinobiYukiWhat kind of station wagon? R.I.P. to your father

[@De19thKingJulion]

Bring back small utes!

[@fsendventd]

@@thehousecat93 I've seen newer Outbacks lowered and with the black plastic repainted body color and they look so much better, I have no idea why they don't just make them like that.

[@MarcelAgvanyan]

the fact google showed fake bugatti suv pictures yet that looked exactly like the blob lambos says a lot about where the automotive industry is going

[@theteenageengineer]

A lot of these brands are zombie brands, zombie meaning that the brand was dug up by some modern company just to use the name because it was something people trust

[@the404error7]

Never would I thought I'd hear Dankpods say "Bubble butt" yet here we are.

[@ScratchedDVDhelp]

lol, that really stuck out to me i was like "did he just say that?"

[@i.hate.swedish.ISRAELUBERALLES]

Dude just google megane Hatchbacks from 2000s they got a ass so thick i might even act up

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@i.hate.swedish.ISRAELUBERALLESthey even used the “I see you baby, shaking that ass” song in ads for it. Even in times of day when programmes weren’t allowed to say ass 😅 kinda funny.

[@i.hate.swedish.ISRAELUBERALLES]

@@kaitlyn__LMate if that car was a woman i would marry her like true rubenesque girth and voluptuousness is just absurd truly breathtaking

[@sgkingly8392]

Fun fact, in the 24 hours LeMons there is a $500 geo metro that's been converted to mid engine by a twin turbo modded ford Taurus SHO engine and the whole thing was made to look like a Porsche 935

[@thomasphillips885]

*LeMans

[@infaura7119]

​@@thomasphillips885its actually LeMons

[@AnAnonymousAuditor]

@@thomasphillips885 Yeah, as @infaura7119 said, there's an actual race called the "24 Hours of LeMons" in which people race for 24 hours in $500 cars.

[@musewolfman]

​​@@thomasphillips885do... do you really think someone would be able to qualify for LeMans in a $500 Geo Metro? Also, for the record, I think the best Lemons car is either the Dead Horse Beaters' Honda Odyssey powered mid-engine '65 Mustang or the sadly no longer with us 'Our Lady of Perpetual Downforce' Honda Civic with a literal airplane wing section bolted to the roof.

[@PlatinumNath]

Iirc that mid engined LeMons Metro even has turbos that are taken from an actual Radical racecar. But the turbos crapped themselves out

[@olympus__]

I find it hilarious that the Austin/Rover/MG Metro was outlived by the car it was supposed to replace! Mini: 1959-2000 Metro: 1980-1998!

[@keithhawkes2204]

After the line "...wheels fell off!!" I immediately got a helpful Corolla ad break. Well played, algorithm!

[@tiagobelo4965]

Fun fact about the multipla: due to Fiat group shenanigans its totally possible to swap a 2.4L diesel i5 (making around 200hp) into one, or even an alfa romeo busso V6 (in case you really want your multipla to be more of an opera lady)

[@PlatinumNath]

Abarth Multipla Imagine

[@freikinpoptarts]

a busso multipla would be the pinnacle of automotive blursed.

[@mattd6085]

Reminds of the the Renault Meganagoo someone in the UK has built. A Renault Kangoo with a Megane 225 engine in it

[@damanchur604]

or you can get an ulysse, not a meme legend like the multipla and it's bigger and heavier but it comes with a 200hp V6

[@dingusmann3003]

he lusty for the justy

[@pravkdey]

😩👉🚗

[@benosick8542]

As someone who learned to drive on a 1997 Saturn SL-1 I have such a fondness for extinct car brands. That little thing was a workhorse, it could handle a blizzard on a gravel road like nothing.

[@ErickC]

Did it have a horrendous clutch? I learned to drive on my best friend's SL-1, also a 1997 I think. Shifting into second was a nightmare, I never had so many pogo problems in any other car. It felt like the clutch was either all on or all off, nothing in between. Trusty old beast, but shifting it smoothly was a real challenge!

[@benosick8542]

@ErickC Mine was an automatic so it was less of an issue but yeah, especially towards the end of its life sometimes I would floor it while merging onto the highway and it simply wouldn't shift up. Still got 35mpg though.

[@schardina]

It's strange how good Saturns were in snow. Like you could just weirdly accurately anticipate when it would slide and just factor that in and it worked great somehow.

[@moohooman]

I now understand why so many people chose a falcon or commodore... because every other option was a god damn front wheel drive, 4 cylinder. Also, I have also been pointing out for the past 2 years, that everything is either turning into a blob car or going through what I call "corolla-fication" where in an attempt to make everything as aerodynamic as possible, you end up with two shapes: that weird hatchback SUV shape or a corolla.

[@p.t.00]

i love how every continent have different names just for ONE car and nobody understands nobody 😭

[@Lucmatins]

GM has most of the blame for this

[@948320z]

Marketing departments of the different branches had to stay relevant somehow. (Seriously, the time and money these people spent on coming up a bloody name is ridiculous. The "consulting firms" that charge hundreds of thousands of dollars for a shitty name has to be one of the most useless profession ever.)

[@AfferbeckBeats]

@@Lucmatins Japan seems to love doing it just within their own country to an extreme degree. Every weird little kei van thing has like five different manufacturers and a dozen different names.

[@segarallychampionship702]

@@948320z oh, so that's how Škoda came up with Inuit language names for the SUVs. All the previous names were either reused from like 1930-1950s cars or something similar sounding (usually some Latin sounding word)

[@riverjane1223]

The blob cars from every manufacturer isn't because people want them, it's to dodge US regulations because crossovers and SUVs are classified as light trucks. This allows them to have more relaxed emissions, efficiency, and safety standards than a smaller car. The US government not closing that loophole is an indictment of how toothless the regulators actually are, and how they prioritize lobbying dollars over people and the environment.

[@My_Old_YT_Account]

Which is funny as light trucks no longer exist because of those same rules

[@riverjane1223]

@@My_Old_YT_Account true, but "light truck" is a very broad category that includes pretty much anything that is under 8500lbs and isn't a regular car and not used for commercial use. Crossovers, SUVs, minivans, vans, as well as pickups big or small are all "light trucks" in the eyes of the EPA/CARB. Heck, the PT Cruiser is classified as a "light truck." All of them are subject to less strict safety and emissions standards for the vague reasoning of "utility", and the emissions standards decrease as the vehicle gets larger, leading to the huge, dangerous, inefficient vehicles that have covered the streets of the US for the past couple of decades.

[@mattBLACKpunk]

People sadly do still absolutely love them

[@segarallychampionship702]

Even non-US brands sell these. They're just heavier hatchbacks/wagons with the same engines in them

[@FekDindad-xy9vz]

Just to disappoint you. Labor have done a similar thing with Australias new fuel efficiency rules. Bigger cars will have laxer rules. Utes will be in a seperate category with even looser rules. It's a disgrace.

[@ThatStrangeCarGuy]

1:40 This kinda reminds me of the FSO Polonez. I love it!

[@cmdjl5755]

11:06 About Toyota trying to keep ICE engines, It's mainly because the Japanese Government is trying to push EVs while not having the required amount of output from the Japanese power grid. Hence why Toyota's been pushing the Hydrogen fuel cell train. I would argue that this is actually good cause in developing countries where power grids are commonly susceptible to failure. Cause in the case of a mass power failure, not only would you be unable to do most tasks that require electricity, you couldn't even get around and go to another city which has power. It's harder to storage electricity than petrol which means if you're going thru lets say a very isolated patch of land, it's practically impossible to go thru it, if it exceeds the range limit of that EV, while in the case of ICE engines all you need is just a can to storage either Petrol or Diesel. Simple, yet elegant.

[@ryllharu]

Toyota has been very carefully working on their hybrid models, very effectively. They're a very cautious company overall, and as of the end of last year, hedging their bets on the EV business model worked out. Most of their competitors over-invested in EV production, or announced huge cuts in their ICE lineup, and they're *all* backing off because customer demand simply is not there. Toyota has played around more with different transition technologies, and it's paid off for them.

[@bibasik7]

In conclusion: Wade loves ugg nuggs

[@mrjack08722]

Should just be the channel description honestly.

[@ilikecheese4518]

if you can find one in straya (i doubt it) i bet youd love a chevy SSR for those unaware, its a convertible truck. due to this it is both terrible as a convertible and terrible as a truck not to mention they are hideous right up wades alley

[@ardnys35]

lol it's so curvy smooth with vibrant colours it looks like a vegetable. you can make a whole grocery store with a fleet of em. purple one is eggplant, red and green are peppers and yellow is le banana

[@AH-64Delta]

thats the yellow one that hammond drove in the grand tour special a couple years back right?

[@mattjacomos2795]

I saw an SSR in Cairns, FNQ....

[@toaster9293]

​@@AH-64Deltayes, in Eurocrash

[@rmcBloody]

@@AH-64Deltathat’s the one a total Beauty in todays generic car pool

[@fiveletters]

I owned an 89 Justy for about a year! The hysterical: Surprisingly good ground clearance. Shift-on-the-fly 4WD! In a car so light me and a mate used to grab under each rear wheel arch, lift, and just turn it around as a dumb party trick/bar bet. Between the hardware and extreme light weight, it was an absolute riot off road. You could turn an abandoned construction road into a special rally stage whenever you wanted. The intensely unpleasant: Obviously if you strike a stationary object or someone in basically any other car and some heavier bicycles hits you - you're just getting minced into chunky marinara. My Honda Cub felt both safer and more stable at the same speeds. Most tragically, I think this was the absolute last carbureted car sold in the US. Because the only way to meet emissions spec with a carby that late in the game was to run three rats' nests worth of vacuum lines and linkages around. The carb is nearly a third the size of the engine, hard to find rebuild kits for (and this was 20 years ago), and an intense pain in the everything to diagnose and maintain.

Multiplas are so amazing. They're used by a line taxi service here, their whole fleet is factory methane fueled Multiplas - dirt cheap to run and takes five passengers, perfect for the use. They get crazy mileage every day and are surprisingly snappy and quick.

[@speedwaynutt]

Does anyone think we need a Shrek Green Car to give Donkey Van his own Shrek.

[@tnogaming6903]

Yes, specifically shrek green multipla

[@cloudy4872]

@@tnogaming6903next nugget should be a multipla with a shrek green wrap.

[@launchpending]

Something with fendor mirror 'ears' for that real Shrek style

[@ms_cartographer]

YES!

[@First-Name_Last-Name]

YOU'RE HIRED, YOU'RE FIRED.

[@Galantium]

Ugly cars have their own charm and usually an interesting story to tell but everything in the middle is just desolately boring. It's really a "unhappy families are unhappy in their own ways while happy families are all the same" situation

[@littlebubbles1256]

Fun Fact: In the USA, there was a 6 month waiting list to buy the P.T. Cruiser. People were pre-ordering the P.T. Cruiser before it was officially released to the dealership for purchase.

[@skeptic_lemon]

The Subaru Justy IS an Ignis! We have thousands of these over in Hungary, I see them every day! I was like "wait what's an Ignis doin" here?", I didn't think they were that lazy with the design. And I'm not even kidding, that Subaru is a 1:1 copy of our European Ignis, maybe the Subaru is a smidge longer.

[@DigitalJedi]

Wade would absolutely love a Justy. You engage 4WD with this giant button on the shifter and it just KA-THUNKs the transfer case as soon as it gets the chance. I have yet to meet one that runs exactly right and I have owned 4.

[@patrickmartin3322]

Fun fact about the i-MiEV that a surprising number of people don’t know, it’s an EV converted version of a mid engined RWD gasoline powered Kei car called the i Another i-MiEV fact is that could actually have Vehicle to Grid, so you could use one as a battery backup for your house if you want

[@DaciaSandero_1.5DCi]

M i d E n g i n e R W D E g g

[@Bean41]

I absolutely love the 90s Camrys and Accords because they’re just “car”. Nearly bought a 92 Accord if memory serves, loaded version with the auto seatbelts, unfortunately the dealer couldn’t sell it till he finished a fence. Ended up with a Crown Victoria Police Interceptor so can’t really complain.

[@LeBruskii]

I used to joke to my English teacher that the bZ4X was named that way because "bz" is the sound that everyone thinks of when they hear the word "electricity", the car has "4" wheels (or maybe because the car can come with AWD, but it's funnier to imagine Toyota just going "hmmm yes car have four wheel") (The thing can also come with FWD, so there's the drivetrain argument out of the window), and it's a crossover (hence the "X") Oh, and the fact that the wheels fall off, they hardly even deserve the "4" anymore 🤷‍♂️

[@Storemotor73]

bro talked about more cars that he liked than didn't like

[@bowl_of_soup6634]

That "Rebadged Daewoo" is so nostalgic to me. My dad drove one for years and handed it down to me as my first car. That lil ecotec engine ran like a workhorse until other parts of the car started dying around it.

[@meesguyy]

Love that the Metro has made it into one of your videos. Absolute nugget of a car that somehow lasted until 1997/98

[@sambarker7930]

LDV is closer to MG than you think. Started out as the British Leyland Sherpa van in the mid-70s, during restructuring in the early 80s the Freight Rover part of what was becoming Austin Rover was placed under the control of Land Rover. The same Sherpa van was now called the 200 series, and a larger 400 series was introduced. Leyland trucks was at some point grouped in with Freight Rover, and then in the late 80s was sold off to DAF trucks (the vans were now badged as Leyland DAFs). 4 years later DAF went bankrupt, and sold off Leyland DAF, only for the management at the factory to buy out the company (becoming at that point LDV (LDV I think officially means nothing, but technically means Leyland DAF Vans). They continued with the same vans, facelifting them and renaming the 200 as the Pilot and the 400 as the Convoy. These survived until 2006 before finally being killed off (over the years having various Ford and Peugeot diesels engines, as well as the Rover 3500 V8 for ambulances, but maintaining the same basic design of the van otherwise). In 2004 they launched the all new Maxus (which SAIC is still building today), but it wasn't really enough and the company collapsed in 2009, when it was sold to SAIC

[@gabrielfedeli5550]

As a friend once said: "Oh look a BMW X4, it combines the dissappiontments of an SUV and a Coupé"

[@Jamesaepp]

I love the feeling of back-seat internet surfing. The Australian point of view of staring at a thumbnail for a second until your crappy Internet connection *finally* downloads the full res. Woo boy.

[@jessebol]

The holden barina's you showed at 4:34 are also opels, they are called opel corsa and in the UK they were sold as the Vauxhall Nova I believe. They were sold with 8 valve ecotec engines that literally cannot break

[@tigersusyt]

Alternative title: looking at car photos for 17 minutes

[@notreal6966]

The big reason Toyota just reskinned a Z4 instead of developing a car fresh is because of the cost of government testing and certification. It's why America never saw the GR Yaris, it's why the ND Miata almost didn't happen. Setting aside the actual development costs to bring them into being, there are additional significant costs to have them tested and certified by the various governmental bodies just to be able to sell them. Do I wish Toyota could have built the nupra entirely in house? Yes, I do with all my heart, but nothing is allowed to be good and fun anymore, it's all mandated to be shit by the powers that be.

[@Dr.Spatula]

Anyone that complains about the Supra being a BMW are the same people that would never buy one. If Toyota developed it entirely in house it wouldn't be the 60k car it is. It would be at least double the price and no better. The B58 is currently the best straight six on the market by a far margin, until we know more about the Hurricane at least.

[@notreal6966]

If they didn't go to BMW they probably would have done something like use the 86/BRZ platform as a base or something similar, for the reason you suggested there's no way it would ever get a fresh, bespoke platform. As for the engine, I have extreme doubt that Stellantis can make a better inline 6 than the B58.

[@Dr.Spatula]

@@notreal6966 Unlikely, but not impossible is all I'm saying. Already speced to 405, 550, and 1,000hp and seemingly reliable in the Wagoneer. Saw someone suggest they were going to use the LC500 originally but that starts at 100k and has a v8. Imagine how butt hurt people would have been about that lol

[@SoI_Badguy]

Boo hoo Toyota is one of the biggest car companies on the planet. If dodge's half-dead corpse can engineer the new electric Charger thing, BMW can make a new Supra.

[@SoI_Badguy]

​@@Dr.Spatula By "the best" you mean "the only"?

[@the6ig6adwolf]

I wonder how many early 90s Camrys are still on the road? Those things run forever.

[@nickrustyson8124]

Not really, in my experience they're almost all gone, the 90s cars that I still see all the time are Silverados, F-Series, Rams, Camaros, and Mustangs

[@cruzin8056]

I gotta 94 V6 Coupe, nearly 200k miles, shes been through it lol

[@sokjeong-ho7033]

There's tons of them in Adelaide

[@jeffmcdonald101]

Yeah, I still see them around central coast. Indestructible. Check out the satirical article about the 90's camry recall, it's great.

[@cfothough]

I see TONS of them in western PA

[@thatweirdguyfromtheinterne9002]

we had a '90-something suzuki swift from Japan (made for Europe) it never broke, was efficient and even had ac. amazing car also looks like an absolute machine

[@jochenstacker7448]

I drive a 2012 Dacia Lodgy, it's a 4 cylinder, 8 valve, non-turbo with 83 horsepower. It has wind up windows all round and basically is four wheels and a steering wheel with zero extras. And it's made in Romania. Wade would love it.

[@Saavik256]

There is a charm about old boxy-looking cars. It's why I like the Zastava 101 and the Yugo Koral 45. :D They're absolute donkeys of cars but they have a certain charm to me.

[@a5leighton]

You had me at “stylish crease”

[@948320z]

"The Secret Life of Machines" taught me that the "stylish crease" is probably there to make it structurally stronger.

[@syedhassaanmujtababokhari6199]

This Shape Suzuki Cultus was produced till 2018 in Pakistan. They're fairly common and people have kept them in great condition. They can still be found with 20k to 30k kms on the clock

[@Kernfederate]

My aunt had a Geo Metro, 3 cylinder if I recall. She'd try driving that thing up the mountain roads in my area, but that thing just had zero torque and she'd stall out all the time. It couldn't pull a greasy string out of a cat's ass. Eventually it blew a head gasket and they basically could only sell it for pennies. What a glorious nugget it was, though.

[@SoundShinobiYuki]

In my town it was always those cheap things with fuckin’ steering wheel locks and overly expensive stereos in them too. 😂 Like, really? You think someone wants to STEAL that crappy little car that can’t even make a steep hill? My Dad’s barely-road-legal junkers that he kept running through sheer force of will and mechanic magic when I was growing up (and we went through a lot of them because well, see above. That’s why I like this channel, it’s such a nostalgia hit for me😅) would probably be worth more- and a better drive!- than a freaking Geo. 😂

[@TheBobes]

I remember when I first saw the Multipla facelift... I thought it's some sort of homemade mod at first. I don't think they sold them locally but some French dude brought one to a local event. Terrible eyesore. One cool thing I learned about Multipla tho - you can start the car, exit it and lock it - while it's still running and you have the key.... Why?

[@UberMan5000]

4:00 Subaru Justy! This was my first car. Little 3-cylinder runabout, five speeds, with a four wheel drive switch right on top of the gear lever. Absolutely mad car. We had to scrap it because the rear wheel fell off and we couldn't replace it, since it was a weird size. 😔

[@hxtpl]

I love this video so much for so many reasons, and your humor and knowledge in your craft is one of them xD

[@GingerWaste]

my family had a bright green multipla, if all of the plastics wouldn't have melted we would have kept it, the big windows, the spacious interior, it was a hallmark of my childhood

[@gammaray004]

I love how Fiat in the 1990s had both the huge car with the roll of fat under the windshield and the small car that was extremely blocky (Yes, the old Panda) within the same decade. They liked their funny designs, I'll give them that

[@G-Cole-01]

holden really went "i need you to order at least thirty more FWD four-cylinder designs"

[@blakespinelli6969]

>be Holden >make 16 different designs for various parts of the world >none of them gets any market share >suprisedpikachu.png

[@YeezusGhoul]

7:05 My old gramps had one of these. The only MG I've ever had the pleasure of riding in. Old af, seatbelts weren't installed but it was an car. Until he was too old, he tried his best to finish refurbishing it. Then he just sold it and started a new project, a Volvo Amazon. Damn, memories.

[@Ackira]

Feels so weird seeing all these cars and my brain going like « That’s a Mondeo ! That’s a Punto ! That’s a Suzuki Capuccino ! » and you saying something completely different, feels like I stepped into an alternate reality

[@Commanderraf]

In defense of the i-Miev, it was being designed before other electric vehicles, and it actually went on sale before the more famous Leaf in Japan. Besides, it is a blast driving it around in GT6.

[@kristoffer3000]

It was based on a shitbox Kei car. Absolutely dreadful thing in real life, drove one around for a few days when it was pretty much brand new and it was AWFUL.

[@BigPhant80]

I have a Rover 100/Metro and I can confirm it is an absolute nugget, hilariously badly built, unsafe, and underpowered and it’s great (when it works, which isn’t great considering it’s my daily). Those 2 vents on the bonnet aren’t for cooling, the one on the drivers side is blanked off and the one on the passenger side is the direct feed for the heater blower.

[@meesguyy]

I also second the nugget tier of the metros

[@lankyGigantic]

You going through these tiny little nuggets just made me remember my favourite British dinky little thing. Called the Rover Metro, but also known as an Austin Metro. It was supposed to replace the Mini but sold like half as much.

[@Ramonatho]

This has been one of my favorite videos in a while, but finding out that Mitsuoka made a version of the i-Mev made my day. Holy hell what a pointless exercise that I adore.

[@tobymyles9764]

4:51 hang on a minute that's a Vauxhall Corsa (at least in the UK) I'd recognise that rear end anywhere

[@aesthetic3355]

Opel Corsa everywhere else lmao

[@ysbx]

Mk2 corsa they made so many they are everywhere

[@bevy9598]

Funny how much Australia got from GM rebrands especially when holden can be thanked for the revival of the camaro with the 5th gen based on a holden developed platform

[@Poincianaa]

3:14 peep the Mazda 121 in the background too haha. the thing literally looks like they just took a subaru vivio and gave it some extra ass

[@D34DM4N47]

1:54 Car looks like someone took a limo and got rid of the fun part

[@bknysz45]

You would’ve loved what some French KZbinr have done to a multipla, a few years ago, they thought it would be a good idea to fit a corvette c7 motor in that thing ! They ve partnered up with a racing body-shop and the Japanese rocket-bunny makers, that thing makes over 1000HP , they call it the 1000TIPLA, look it up if you’re interested

[@DiamandiL]

Why didn't they call it the Milletipla?

[@kristoffer3000]

@@DiamandiL That's what they did

[@bknysz45]

@@DiamandiL 1000tipla in French is pronounced Milletipla ;)

[@lenajk2004]

as a chevy malibu owner i thank you for liking the style of my terrible FWD 4 cylinder thing

[@ethanwatkins7874]

I needed this. I need more of this. This is exactly what I did in middle and high school when I should have been studying, I went Wikipedia diving for whacky cars and this just brings me right back to those days

[@MuscleCarLover]

I'll never not chuckle when I see the Holden badge on the back of the Viva. It's like the size of it shows exactly how much Holden there really is in it

[@markwduns]

I had a Geo Metro for a little while at the end of my college days. $10 to fill the tank (25 years ago), then I got into a fender bender and my insurance company totaled the car.

[@nahuelluna7071]

-it´s ok everyone has different opinions -**loads shotgun**

[@Jazz4YourSoul]

I still have my 04 touring PT cruiser in near mint condition.. I still love her. She is now retired in her own little tent and she has an electric hook up to keep the battery trickle charged. I still take her out sometimes for small drives. (Uses the fuel so it don't get stale) She did go through two ECUs (One died, the other one was killed by a fluid leak) but other then that.. I feel like I can't part with this car because she got me through my driving test, high school and my very very short time with collage. (Thats how old she is and she's got low mileage on it)

[@SonicManEXE]

In the 80s, my dad went from his first car, a hand-me-down Oldsmobile, to a Supra (I think the second gen). He loved that thing. He’s been getting performant sedans ever since.

[@kmorrison4433]

Check the AMC lineup from the United States throughout the 80's - especially the 4wd Wagons... You will fall in love!

[@nickrustyson8124]

Why would you recommend 1980s AMC when it was at their most boring and rebadged, especially when compared to the 1970s when AMC was making the Pacer, Matado, Ambassador, Gremlin, the only notable thing AMC made in the 1980s was the Eagle and even then it's still very boring looking

[@PhoenicopterusR]

@@nickrustyson8124 I'm not a car person, but a Gremlin would turn me into one so fast. Such an iconic silhouette and an aesthetic that anyone could look at and go "yeah, that's a 70s car"

[@nickrustyson8124]

@@PhoenicopterusR Not only that despite all recent reviews of it by Pop Culture Listicles, the Gremlin was a really good car at it's time, also you could've got one with a V8 and it was a sleeper giving Mustang, Camaros, and Challengers a run for their money, only real top of the line big engines where faster than a Gremlin X

[@jaubuchon28]

The eagle was such a piece of shit and I want 3

[@GTSW1FT]

What about a 4wd toyota camry wagon?

[@panagiotispappas1001]

The one on the thumbnail looks like a squished mustard bottle on wheels

[@bibasik7]

Looks like a BMW to me

[@Goldenboi69akacunt]

umm it looks more like a morphed BMW M3 and BMW Z4

[@ileutur6863]

​@@bibasik7 by that logic every lamborghini afyer 2008 is actually an audi

[@tonyjenssen4157]

@@ileutur6863Well yeah, it kinda is. It’s evident that the Germans handle a lot of the technology and mechanics in the car, and let the Italians do the styling and the brochure, as well as making the seats uncomfortable.

[@user-jq1kq9hy1t]

Looks absolutely amazing to me! I fucking love the new supra... amazing car.

[@brodericki4281]

Haha I learnt to drive in a four on the floor white version of that exact model of Camira! My dad called it the red headed step child to the commo

[@liverpoodlian]

3:29 "Come on Ned move this thing!" "I CAN'T IT'S A GEO!!!!"

[@craychaysmusicdump8167]

Everytime I see a Multipla I can't stop thinking about Bailey the Beluga whale

[@rmcBloody]

Man the Aztec was my dream van

[@LorchVHS]

My son currently has the first Barina in red. We'll be putting 13" KE70 Carolla wheels on her. Her name is Savoia. She is great.

[@aaaaaaaaaassssssssdf]

that 92+ camry i'm biased to because i grew up in the back seat of one, and drove the same car when i was old enough for 150k miles before i got rear ended at a red light. the style was ahead of it's time. i -still- see them on the road today they were so well made.

[@ChristianStout]

I don't think the theory of "Toyota wants to keep ICEs due to maintenance revenue" holds water because Toyota's whole schtick is that they're almost maintenance-free. Camrys hardly even need oil changes. Plus, EVs don't last more than 10 years, so car companies get recuring revenue that way.

[@annjrue]

Toyota (in the US, at least) is starting to get real ballsy and out there, but for the longest time they’ve just been the most simple “an car” you can get, and I think by electrifying their lineup before they’re ready will price people out of buying a Toyota, and they’re fine with selling things like the Prius. EVs are real expensive to make. The problem with that logic is that everything else they make in the US is so damn expensive it’s pricing people out anyway.

[@ToastyMozart]

It's mostly because Toyota has been dragging their heels on battery production and are afraid the companies that haven't will start eating their lunch. They made their hybrid IVT and have been resting on their laurels ever since.

[@bairfamilyfarm1336]

Toyota’s US line isn’t close to maintenance free. I worked in a mechanic shop and the Prius always annoyed me. People brag about how reliable and trouble free they are, yet I’d see a lot of them come in for engine work and brakes repeatedly without many miles. I thought the hybrid system was supposed to make those 2 last longer. I’ve never seen one have transmission problems though. Prius and Ford Escape Hybrids seemed to have bulletproof transmissions.

[@SPAZTICCYTOPLASM]

It's simple marketing. Consider Subaru who toyota has a 20% stake in wants to go all electric. Toyota absolutely has the means to go all electric, they're the second largest car company in the world and electric sales to toyota mean nothing, when their main car is the corolla even when the model y did really well at 1.15million (mostly backorders) toyota sold 1.13 corolla's, followed by another 0.93million ravs. In the top 10 most sold cars in 2023, 4/10 are Toyotas and that's not going away a long time. It's simple marketing for when everyone is jumping on the electric bandwagon, to be the one brand that stands out. Toyota created the modern hybrid, every modern hybrid is basically down stream of Toyotas design. The BZ4X is just a Subaru Solterra. My opinion is we're either gonna see a massive fumble by toyota (which would surprise me), or we're gonna see a eureka moment like Lexus, when toyota launches it's electric brand or car or whatever. It can go both ways Toyota is a family owned company still which is amazing, Akio is the son of the founder of Toyota who was the son of the founder of Toyota industries.

[@kristoffer3000]

Toyotas are not maintenance free at all, they're just like any other car

[@thegardenofeatin5965]

There was an early Toyota Celica that looked like a 7/8 scale Ford Mustang that was a legitimately sexy car. Very 70's thing, 4 cylinder RWD but in a car its size it made sense. The last thing I saw badged as a Celica was a slightly sporty little front wheel drive 4 cylinder right before Toyota cut all their genitals off and produced nothing but sexless, funless, adequate self-propelled conveyance devices for a decade.

[@CeiliasMira]

Most likely a TA22 or TA28 Celica GT 1st gen. They made liftbacks, fastbacks and coupe body styles. Pretty nice cars Celicas, everything other than the new ones which look shit.

[@RIlianP]

4:46 My first car was one of these, but it was the European Opel Corsa, silver metallic, 1.0 engine, from 2000. Had a car crash with it on the highway with around 140 km/h, managed to destroy 4 concrete pillars of the fence there, the car was mangled on the left side something fierce, made it out without a scratch. later patched it up, then my dad drove if for years after.

[@zadtheinhaler]

The Barina/Metro was also sold in Canada as the Pontiac Firefly, and they were fun to drive...as long as you revved the piss out of it.

[@GTSW1FT]

And thats what makes them fun, REVING THEM LIKE YOU HATE IT

[@zadtheinhaler]

@@GTSW1FT Oh yeah, I drove that thing like I was cosplaying MIchele Mouton at Pike's Peak.

[@kodekopelli]

If I had a nickel for every time I heard about British Leyland today after never seeing them before, I'd have three nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened thrice.

[@Croz89]

Trust me, it's better you remain ignorant!

[@AveragePootis]

Oh man, i was just watching The Car upgrade video

[@nicolarulli7733]

Yep, the Subaru Justy III (every justy gen was just a wildly different design) was just a rebranded Suzuki Ignis but with a cuter face. It's pretty functional, medium-small boxy car with a bunch of space inside for loading things - though the hatch in the back kinda restricts the size of what you can fit through. I have one and I love it, except it's got subpar braking and poor AC. And the first gear is apparently weirdly springy. And it's way too small to comfortably sleep inside of when coming back from gigs.

[@Dat-Mudkip]

Coming from someone who's driven a couple of PT Cruisers, they are a love/hate kind of car. On the one hand, I always enjoyed the looks of the car. I have no idea why, but there's something I've always liked about the way they looked. But they are a strange breed. Going under the hood to check fluid levels genuinely shocked me. I don't know how a 2.0 liter I4 was crammed in there, but the designers somehow found a way. (There's also 2.2 liter I4s out there that includes a turbo. I have no idea how they would find space for that!) The driving experience was... interesting. 4 speed automatic transmission was crap. Turning radius was terrible (considering how big the vehicle was). Car somehow weighed over 3000 lbs (1400 kg). Everything would squeak and rattle as you went faster, and I feel like trying to reach 100 miles an hour would see the thing shake itself to bits. The car was also EXTREMELY LOUD when in motion because there wasn't any noise cancelation between the engine and the cabin. You could supposedly fit three people in the backseat, but unless you chopped their legs off I'm not sure how they thought that was possible. The ride wasn't great, but that might be because the person I borrowed them from probably never replaced the shocks, which were well worn out by that point. On the bright side the front seats felt surprisingly roomy, and both the variants I drove had heated seats. Overall, I quite liked the PT for some reason, though both my mother and brother despised it. Oh, and a bonus fact: Apparently the vehicle was originally designed by Plymouth. Chrysler proceeded to take over the project (and killed Plymouth outright) in 2000. Chrysler proceeded to slap their own badge on the car and changed nothing else.

[@NoName-oh6pc]

MG/Rover made some serious nug's.

[@Beefnhammer]

90's Camry slander will not stand!

[@jocking3b510]

That "Holden Barina" is/was called the Opel Corsa in Europe. It's one of the best and most reliable small category cars ever made.

[@michaelcolberg8221]

The first gen Justy is awesome! Had lots of fun snow drifting mine..