Cars you "should" like but don't.

CianRyan

You know the ones, the cult classics and the hero cars. Everyone loves them, whether they're into cars or not. Everyone but you and hen you see them and everyone getting excited about then you just zone out.

For me it's got to be the Delorean. It's slow, ugly and clunky.
I it wasn't for Back To The Future no one would care about them (say the bitterness in me), I just can not bring myself to like them. They bore me half way to death.
To a lesser extent, Minis, in any configuration, by any if their builders. I just don't like them. Squished little rattle boxes, and I love small cars!

The VW Beatle gets an honorary mention, their ugliness is only intensified when they're resprayed in mega bright "old school" coolers and cambered to death.
I think it's more the scene I hate than the original car though.

So what do you hate and why?





PS. This is intended as a bit if fun, I don't mean to insult anyone or their cars, we all have different tastes and that's what make this a great forum.

bop1977

All Ferrari's. Just don't get it.

Alfas, same thing, don't care about them.

Cookie_Monster

e-type jag. it's not the best looking car ever, or even close.

W.Shakes-Beer

Golfs and 3 Series BMWs....I dont see why people fawn all over them, especially on here. Can of worms opened, maybe. But I don't get it.

They're dull and I'm tired looking at them at this stage.

Victor Meldrew

Agree on Delorean. It was just a pile of flaws and comprimises. There is a resson no-one has copied stainless steel as a finish.

Drove a 348 and was shocked at how cr@p it was.. arrogantly crap.

And the proportions of tbe e-type are just wrong.

The mini is class though... what BMW did is just a sin though.

martyc5674

W.Shakes-Beer wrote: »

Golfs and 3 Series BMWs....I dont see why people fawn all over them, especially on here. Can of worms opened, maybe. But I don't get it.

They're dull and I'm tired looking at them at this stage.

I'm with you!!
Add to that passats A4's Octavia's.
Just plain dull to me.
Marty.

KERSPLAT!

martyc5674 wrote: »

I'm with you!!
Add to that passats A4's Octavia's.
Just plain dull to me.
Marty.

Whats your take on the Dolorean Marty? :pac:

jacksie66

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Professey Chin

Alfas. Genuinely never understood the big deal behind them

Quazzie

It's got to be Alfas for me. All except the 159 are ugly in the extreme in my opinion.

Another I don't get are old Jap cars. For the majority they are rattly tin cars with poor plastics that make them feel cheap and unsafe. It's something that I've never understood the appeal of.

djimi

Porsche. I can appreciate that they are cool cars but for some reason they never did much for me.

martyc5674

Princess Petulia Pissy Pants wrote: »

Whats your take on the Dolorean Marty? :pac:

Haven't seen one!!
I'd prob like it simply cos it's different but can't really say.

Seweryn

BMW E60. Just can't get it. The previous geretion E39 was lovely, the last one is not as bad either. But the E60 interior and exterior is just not for me, but so many people like it . Add the small, unreliable Diesel to the equation and it gets even worse...

Mandzhalas

Toyota Avensis.big fat dull cow
And Toyotas generally.reliable does not mean car is great.

CJhaughey

New Scirocco, having owned a Mk2 Storm the new one looks like a squashed truncated polo.

SleeperService

CJhaughey wrote: »

New Scirocco, having owned a Mk2 Storm the new one looks like a squashed truncated polo.

Like at least two design teams did different parts without ever communicating with each other! If Hyundai released that as the veloster Paddy Posh would be falling around laughing at it, put a vw badge on it and he'd give up his claim to land with road frontage for one.

On the other hand, they got the new new beetle right this time (the first new beetle was vomit in standard trim and silver paint).

Cienciano

VW beetles for me. Sound like a sewing maching.

bop1977 wrote: »

All Ferrari's. Just don't get it.

:eek:
That's a fairly broad statement! Even the classics?

Cookie_Monster

Mandzhalas wrote: »

Toyota Avensis.big fat dull cow
And Toyotas generally.reliable does not mean car is great.

i think most people think that in fairness. The Avensis is just a white good like a fridge, once it works most people don't care about it.

Sobanek

Audi A4. Genuinely overrated.
Mk1 Audi TT. People love them, but to me, they're a hairdresser's car!!

colm_mcm

Hairdressers often buy nice cars (TTs, MX5 etc)
I like the mk1 TT but not the Mk2

Supergurrier

Audi R8

Just doesn't strike me as a supercar

Can't imagine lusting after one even if I had a bajjillion euros

For Forks Sake

I like some Alfas, but the way people go on about the Brera you'd think it was the second coming of christ. I think it's a mess. The proportions are all wrong and that rear pillar makes it look like a van.

Cienciano

Supergurrier wrote: »

Audi R8

Just doesn't strike me as a supercar

Can't imagine lusting after one even if I had a bajjillion euros

To me its a not quite a supercar, but a serious car you can use day to day. I'd have one

Henry Ford III

Cienciano wrote: »

To me its a not quite a supercar, but a serious car you can use day to day. I'd have one

They are every inch a supercar. A relative has a v10, I've driven it, and it's awesome.

Supergurrier

Henry Ford III wrote: »

They are every inch a supercar. A relative has a v10, I've driven it, and it's awesome.

I'm not doubting its technical ability. I'm just saying it leaves me feeling about cold abit like the McLaren mp4-12 great cars just abit well clinical.

Would love a ferreri f12 berlinetta for example or an old blacked out ls2 69 camaro

Zcott

All Bentleys.

B00056718

Nissan Quasquai.
Didn't like it even before I drove it. After driving one for couple of days - I wouldn't pay any amount of money for it.
Even Juke seems to be a little more enjoyable.

Also the new Mondeo. Couple of guys in work bought them and I was talking to another guy who is about to buy it and thought it was the best car out there.
I wouldn't pay 30k for it even if I had the money. Don't think they're even worth half of that.

power pants

jacksie66 wrote: »

Glanzas or twin cams

Dirty smelly knack boxes in my eyes..

Levin gets an honourable mention...

completely agree about the glanzas /twin cams- detest them

alfas as well but for the 159

Old diesel

Seweryn wrote: »

BMW E60. Just can't get it. The previous geretion E39 was lovely, the last one is not as bad either. But the E60 interior and exterior is just not for me, but so many people like it . Add the small, unreliable Diesel to the equation and it gets even worse...

Oh god yes - completely agree with the above - E39 was lovely - why they didn't keep going with E39 style allround awesomeness with the E60 I don't know.

Mr.David

All modern Bentleys
The new McLarens
Lamborghini Gallardo

Stevieg2009

The golf for me really don't get it about them just a big box if u ask me,but I am an alfa man I'm afraid

Mandzhalas

Smart car

CianRyan

I forgot Bentlys! The new ones do nothing for me, as powerful as they are they're just so boring and dull looking.
I agree with the E Type too, I like some iterations of it but for the most part it's fairly ugly.
Alfa Brera is hideous, I've been quite out spoken about that.

FTO's are a weird one for me, they look great from the front, awkward from the back but they're the wrong wheel drive for the body shape and none of the engines really do it for me.
It annoys me because I really want to like them, I just can't.

The Datsun 280ZX got too big and bulky.
The 240Z was a little super car killer, then as the Z evolved it got fat and luxurious, just not what it's about.

logie101

I just don't get any Asian car. They just build copies of European or American cars.

Comhrá

VW Golf mK 7.

I think they designed out what bit of style and poise the previous Mk VI had. New one looks too long, too flat, too flabby - looks a bit squashed - and rear light clusters are now ugly.

Side view shape looks just a little out of proportion to me.

IMHO the Mark VI was the best overall Golf looks-wise.

HandsomeDan

Hondas.

Owners feel compelled to tell everyone how their car/****box starts every morning.

Zcott

tippman1 wrote: »

VW Golf mK 7.

I think they designed out what bit of style and poise the previous Mk VI had. New one looks too long, too flat, too flabby - looks a bit squashed - and rear light clusters are now ugly.

Side view shape looks just a little out of proportion to me.

IMHO the Mark VI was the best overall Golf looks-wise.

I actually prefer the look of the MkV but the VI is more like the IV, so it's as if the starting point for the MkVII was the MkIV.

00833827

logie101 wrote: »

I just don't get any Asian car. They just build copies of European or American cars.

think the idea of the thread was cars that should be desirable but u don't find them as such. a Kia was never supposed to be desirable, just functional.

CianRyan

00833827 wrote: »

think the idea of the thread was cars that should be desirable but u don't find them as such. a Kia was never supposed to be desirable, just functional.

Exactly, not just writing off while continents. The idea is to give out about specific cars that are held on a pedestal.

johndaman66

CianRyan wrote: »

For me it's got to be the Delorean. It's slow, ugly and clunky.
I it wasn't for Back To The Future no one would care about them (say the bitterness in me), I just can not bring myself to like them. They bore me half way to death.

I think you might be somewhat missing the point of the Delorean and the story behind it though. Yeah I think we'd nearly all agree that its and ugly square shaped car to look at nowdays. Even parked next to many early 80's cars it most likely still looks ugly nowdays. But at the time it was most likely a design that was pretty break through and evolutionary back then I'm guessing.

Its not that though. Its most likely the fascinating story behind the car that entrals people. How it promised so much and dramatically failed to deliver in the end. How so much was invested in it at a time Northern Ireland probably couldn't afford that or afford to loose all after investing. It offered many Northern Ireland families promise at what must have being a bleak time up there, the troubles, hunger strikes, oppression....The promise of jobs and new industry and a more positive outlook. Then for it all to tumble and its founder arrested for drug trafficking and the demise.

Won't dwell on the story too much as its a motoring forum and the more I talk the more I move away from the point in hand. The car itself was plagued by gremlins and poor reliability, not particularly exciting to look at nowdays even in a retro cool sort of way, but the story behind it, thats pretty awesome...to me anyway.

CianRyan wrote: »

To a lesser extent, Minis, in any configuration, by any if their builders. I just don't like them. Squished little rattle boxes, and I love small cars!

Again I think your missing the point somewhat here too. For what it was the original mini was a fantastic car. Stupidly small and just a no no if your anything over 6 foot tall I'd imagine. But at least part of the original philosophy behind it was to allow people, particularly younger people get on the road in and bring more affordable motoring to the masses....something that it did very very well at the time I believe.

It was never designed to be a performance car or a fun track car I believe but it can do that too in the right format, such as the GT. Still not out and out fast but cracking fun I believe, go-cart like qualities. But that wasn't really what the mini was about, or at least that wasn't in Alec Issigonis mandate originally. Not particularly safe either by modern standards I'm sure, in fact most likely insanely unsafe. But back in the late 50's early 60's I'd guess its safety was more than adequate for the roads then.

As for the new mini. I'd hardly piss on it if it were on fire. A complete posers car and far removed from the original concept of the mini. If you want to get on the road now you get an oul fiesta or micra, don't think a mini would be in your eyeline anyways.

Toyotafanboi

Pretty much every VAG car in Ireland to date. with the exception of very few i just don't see what people find so orgasmic about them. bland bland bland, like eating a cream cracker topped with rice cakes that's the mk7 golf.

same situation with any BMW with say, a smaller than 2.0 engine, why plump for a "luxury" brand car and go for the weediest engine possible.

had a friend in work just last night tell me about his 2005 316d that he just bought. delighted for himself having traded down from a lovely looking, well spec'd 2008 bravo t-jet. felt really bad for him but sure he has a BMW key fob now and he's delighted.

AugustusMinimus

Just about every post Bangle BMW. Most of the new cars are a styling mess.

colm_mcm

316d didn't come out till 09. Must be badged down

Toyotafanboi

colm_mcm wrote: »

316d didn't come out till 09. Must be badged down

i was thinking that. it could have been 318 he said to be fair, it was diesel and started with a "31". anyway, it was late and once he said BMW the monkey in my head went on his tea break . he wouldn't be the sort to rebadge a car for sleeper purposes.

Old diesel

power pants wrote: »

completely agree about the glanzas /twin cams- detest them

alfas as well but for the 159

Problem with Twin Cams isn't the cars - its some of the idiots whove got involved with them at various times - like the sort of clowns that do donouts on public roads when they are still open :eek:.

And go to Killarney on Rally weekend - and pretend they are in the rally :mad:

The cars themselves are pretty cool imo

Jesus.

Never got the VW Golf thing to be honest. Never liked 'em

pajor

With the possible exceptions of the S500 and W202, pretty much every Mercedes.

biko

All modern cars. They tend to look alike somehow (gross over exaggeration)
I like old cars, with distinct features, shapes and quirks.
But that's probably just me..

djimi

Old diesel wrote: »

Problem with Twin Cams isn't the cars - its some of the idiots whove got involved with them at various times - like the sort of clowns that do donouts on public roads when they are still open :eek:.

And go to Killarney on Rally weekend - and pretend they are in the rally :mad:

The cars themselves are pretty cool imo

Agreed. The AE86 is a cool car; its just a shame they are owned by so many knobs (same could be said for a lot of Japanese performance cars in Ireland unfortunately).

Anjobe

I like car makers to try and make the best cars they can, and hate the cars where they do the opposite and cynically cash in on their brand to fill some market niche with product. There are plenty of these to choose from but for some reason its BMW I'm thinking of mostly - X6, X3, 5GT all hideous and pointless.

I don't dislike the Mini hatch, its not to my taste but it has it's virtues. All its variations though are a different matter - coupe, roadster etc are certainly hatefull, and then theres the ridiculous Countryman. As my young son said the first time he saw one, "A big Mini, what's the point of that?" I couldn't answer him then and I still can't.

mitosis

Diesel BMWs. It was plain wrong to put a diesel engine in what used to be a refined quality car. If the same car was a VW, it'd be OK.

A car that looks as nice as a 5 series should not have the sound of a delivery van.