that wing was stock! my (red) dodge neon had one, i think it was the “”””sport”””” package
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speaking of purple chryslers, i finally found a pic of the absurd stock paint/trim combo my first car had: deep purple and a weird coppery gold trim and hubcaps
(not pictured: the leaky roof and the transmission that required a daily fluid tribute 
)
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Damn if not for maintenance issues that’s a pretty sweet whip
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Hell yeah the LeBaron 'vert is a great Chrysler K platform car that may or may not have some Italian design in its heritage.
Also, deep purple cars with bronze wheels are so good!
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I really wonder where those extravaganza paintjobs went, and when silver and black became the default choices… most of the plastic-clad urban offroaders are hideous no matter which color, make or model you pick, and limiting the paintjobs to silver, grey, dark grey, blackish mica, black and dare you imagine it, white… where did we go so wrong?
It seems that US carmakers clung to fancy colors way longer than the rest of the world did, and you have to salute them for that
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I have two personal petty grievances that I use to judge people as someone who probably inherited a regional mattress store chain from their parent and have never worked an honest day’s work in their life:
Saying the middle 6 digits of an American Express card without a pause
Buying a black car in California, and paying for black plates just to match their black car.
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Just found out there are GT4 randomizers and I think I’ve found my video game retirement home
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When we bought our golf they asked what color we wanted and presented us with black, white, and silver and seemed very confused when we wanted to know if they had any actual colors. Uhh hmmm… we have a blue one in the back, I guess? We’d have to dig it out
My dad has long loved white cars which I think is the absolute worst option
What is the consumer opposition to any personality in cars??
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just go to a trashy aftermarket shop that’ll glam it up for you – that business still exists, just not within the dealership system
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Paint from the factory is much better than anything aftermarket unless you’re willing to spend ludicrous amounts
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just get one of those 3-in-one fix-a-scratch pens and go to town
paint from the factory killed yaphet kotto
(this is a do as I say, not as I do situation in my case, because I own a blue prius C, and blue prius Cs were unbelievably common here for several years in the mid-2010s, and my motorbike is the exact same color of blue)
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i think this also has to do with supply chain shortages or something
but yeah my parents were always like “don’t buy cars with crazy colors because you won’t be able to sell them” but lmao i keep my cars until i can’t any longer
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This was a phenomenon well before the pandemic
Maybe the root of the issue is that something as benign as blue is considered a crazy color? Same people painting their house various shades of beige because it is theoretically easier to sell
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hm, yeah idk then, weird. i do feel like when i’m on the highway i see a lot of cars that all look the same, and also most of them are ugly.
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tbh this is a big part of why I’m totally bemused by all the middle aged guys I know trying to get themselves excited for EVs – they’re all just so hideous and expensive taken on their own terms
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with some of the EVs i’ve seen they at least look bizarre or like a funkier Smartcar, so i kinda like them. i think it makes more sense to just get a kei car, though.
when you say EVs are expensive i assume you mean wrt repairs in NA?
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not even taking into account the repairs – though I do fondly remember when Car Talk was re-running old episodes after Tom died in the early 2010s and they’d be dispensing extremely out of date advice for jump-starting your Chevette or whatever because it was no longer applicable to what was on the roads, and I can’t imagine EVs are going to be particularly fun to take for off-brand maintenance – just the up-front costs are stupid. the average mass-market EV costs like 2.5x-3x what my hybrid cost, and there’s no way anyone is making that up in fuel economy
I really do not respect products that are not fundamentally mass-market, and so far everyone trying to persuade themselves that EVs are mass market appears to be in a weird early adopter self-gaslighting mindset. when it makes default financial sense for them to make like, an electric wrangler, then I’ll finally accept that’s changed.
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i only have one friend who is into them (but probably won’t get one) but i think they make sense as city cars, in theory. i don’t think they have mass appeal though, no.
who wants to own a car you can’t take on a road trip??? madness
you should have to apologize to eisenhower personally
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getting to parts of Queens can be annoying via public transit and we need our Asian groceries
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