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The most pointless car ever? (Page 5)
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Posting Junkie
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The Prius has a point. Not one that I like, but it has a point. Like most Toyotas, it exists to complete the car's transformation into an appliance.
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Originally Posted by ghporter 
It's not like California there-lots of mountains, hills, turns and twists.
This is about 50 miles/80km from where I live:
You can’t see it, but there is a two lane road that twists through the canyon in the middle of this photo:
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Highway 174 out of Colfax into Grass Valley is one heck of a ride. Lots of tight turns with an occasional straight away. It's just north east of Sacramento. My dad takes his Porsche on it whenever he gets the chance, he says it's one of the best little highways he's driven on. It's also nicely paved.
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SR152 between Watsonville and Gilroy is a nice road too. I could make a whole thread on great places to drive in California.
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Originally Posted by Oisín
The Ellert. First Danish car ever produced. And hopefully the last:
They used it as the stunt vehicle in Space Mutiny, as demonstrated in this compilation clip from MST3K (it's the last scene.) 
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
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Originally Posted by iMOTOR
SR152 between Watsonville and Gilroy is a nice road too. I could make a whole thread on great places to drive in California.
Yeap. And anything along the northern California coastline is amazing as well. Even if the road turned to dirt, the views would still be worth it.
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Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
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Originally Posted by olePigeon
They used it as the stunt vehicle in Space Mutiny, as demonstrated in this complication clip from MST3K (it's the last scene.)
Compilation?
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Yes, compilation. I'm trying out Chrome and auto-corrects typos as I type, so I don't always notice it's the wrong word.
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Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot
Why pointless?
Come on, it is a hippies car. Got it? 
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It's like having a mini-c@sh.
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He'd be even slightly more ironic if he'd chosen "lettuce" as a username.
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Ah. I dig.
It's an American thing.
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OK. New nomination for the most pointless car ever...
The specific car which brought SpectateSwamp back from the golf course.
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Been inclined to wander... off the beaten track.
That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
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Man. I love the VW microbus. One of my friends used to have one. Such a fun vehicle, and kinda fun to work on too. I'd like to have one.
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Hey lay off the VW. I grew up in a Red "Tin Top" Camper. Same as the regular without the pop-up top. Pops felt it was more aerodynamic looking. I'll never forget the memories of sleeping over the front seats on my canvas sheet. Listening to the wild animals prowling outside with the window slightly cracked. All the while knowing I was safe in the "Tin Top". 
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Originally Posted by Doofy
OK. New nomination for the most pointless car ever...
The specific car which brought SpectateSwamp back from the golf course.
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Originally Posted by glideslope
Hey lay off the VW. I grew up in a Red "Tin Top" Camper.
So, you missed page 4. It was not the VW Van as a whole. Actually, it was the VW Van as polizei car. Would you approve such an heresy? 
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Originally Posted by parsley
So, you missed page 4. It was not the VW Van as a whole. Actually, it was the VW Van as polizei car. Would you approve such an heresy?
Like I said, an American thing.
The VW van was a delivery and utility vehicle here for fifteen years before hippies even happened, and it was certainly a cultural icon here - but one that represent the Wirtschaftswunder, the economic upswing following the dire post-war years.
The post office, the police force, and any carpenter or plumber who could now afford a car drove Beetles or VW vans/pickups.
And in the mid-fifties, VW introduced the version with extra seats - the van that exploded onto the international stage during the hippie era over a decade later - that was a symbol for the newly affluent holiday-maker families in Germany.
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Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot
Originally Posted by parsley
So, you missed page 4. It was not the VW Van as a whole. Actually, it was the VW Van as polizei car. Would you approve such an heresy?
Like I said, an American thing.
The VW van was a delivery and utility vehicle here for fifteen years before hippies even happened, and it was certainly a cultural icon here - but one that represent the Wirtschaftswunder, the economic upswing following the dire post-war years.
The post office, the police force, and any carpenter or plumber who could now afford a car drove Beetles or VW vans/pickups.
And in the mid-fifties, VW introduced the version with extra seats - the van that exploded onto the international stage during the hippie era over a decade later - that was a symbol for the newly affluent holiday-maker families in Germany.
Actually, I said that they used BUGS as police cars, not vans.
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Originally Posted by ghporter
Actually, I said that they used BUGS as police cars, not vans.
Actually, I was referring to parsley posting a pic of a German police van, prompting me to ask why he felt that it was "pointless".
I've now understood, and tried to explain why that didn't occur to me (being German).
I think he meant "ironic", though, and not "pointless".
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Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot
Actually, I was referring to parsley posting a pic of a German police van, prompting me to ask why he felt that it was "pointless".
I've now understood, and tried to explain why that didn't occur to me (being German).
I think he meant "ironic", though, and not "pointless".
Ah. Ignore my comment then.
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Id like to add to the list, any car that Rob has had! ;-)
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Originally Posted by richwig83
Id like to add to the list, any car that Rob has had! ;-)
Tempting, but I'd disagree. For example, Rob has posted a lot about an Audi he really, really liked. He makes a lot of points about it that are solid and supported by something other than his personal preference-IIRC it was inexpensive for him to buy because it wasn't the mainstream Audi most people think of, and it performed well without a lot of fuss and upkeep.
A lot of the time, Rob states his personal preferences as "irrefutable fact," but sometimes there's some real, objective stuff in there too.
So far, I've never owned a "pointless" car. Sometimes the "point" was "getting back and forth to work without getting too wet," but no car or bike I've ever owned was totally pointless. Sub-optimal? YOU BETCHA!!! (I had a "on its last legs" Corolla for a summer, and I spent as much time making sure it didn't run out of oil as I did driving it...)
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Rob's had good cars. Calling the Civic or Accord pointless is, well, pointless. The SVX may have been a pointless car for Subaru though.
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Ohh guys... it was just a dig at him.... i couldn't care less what cars he's got/had!
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Ohai, mah humerz is teh broken.
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