I always wanted a redo of the 40s style cars like the old Hudson or Cadillac and finally got wind they were building one, and when it finally went through designs and engineering out came... the PT cruzer :/

and the... HHR .
I'll be honest I never realized either one of those were meant to be retro until 10 years after they were discontinued (some round headlights would've helped).

yea it just wasn't an appealing design for retro. I actually just seen a running and driving 1948 de soto of the local facbook marketplace I was drooling over

And there was the travesty that was the Thunderbird several years ago. My biggest beef is the current model Corvette, I didn't like they'd removed the flip up head lights a couple generations ago but THE CHEVROLET CORVETTE IS NOT A MID-ENGINE CAR!!!1!1 they just made a Ferrari and slapped on some GM decals.

The retro Thunderbird? Yeah that was a weird one that I honestly thought looked like a stretched VW Beetle and it didn't help that it was based on a Jaguar chassis.
Unfortunately pop up headlights will probably never return due to I guess 'safety concerns' (gotta make it safer for whenever you hit a pedestrian for some reason, never mind the fact they're getting hit with a car...) although I too really wish pop up headlights would come back.
Heh yeah it kinda does seem like a Ferrari with some GM decals slapped on, I guess they've been wanting a mid engined Corvette for a long time but I get where you're coming from because it's a complete divergence from what a Corvette was. There's nothing the same between a C7 and C8 at all, no suspension parts, no running gear (other than they both have 6.2L engines), no nothing, the interior is weird and driver centered and so on.

I don't drive, but Smart Devices can go to hell. When Skynet comes online I'll be one of the last ones the Alexanators take alive.

https://youtu.be/-4Hs9-ChzrM

I don't do so-called "Smart Devices", too. I don't want nobody spying on me.

Screw 'smart devices' I wont have any of those in my house. I don't want an appliance that will stop functioning because of some company going bust and shutting down the servers. Our current main TV already freaks me out enough with it's smartness.

Me, also, too.

I can't say as I blame you, Hazel. Car companies shouldn't tease us with an idea and then change their minds at the last minute. That's just obscene.

She also probably shouldn't have let her hopes get too high since she should've known they weren't going to released an 'unchanged' model. No retro throwback cars have been anything like their original versions outside of styling cues (for better and worse).

My advice to Hazel; TRY TO GET A CUSTOM BUILT CAR! XD

She better have deep pockets then. She'd probably have better luck finding an older model and 'restomodding' it. Meaning bringing certain things up to more modern standards to make daily driving it more bearable.

Fair enough!

Love her T-shirt!

Some of my dream cars were nightmares. Back in the 1980s I wanted a Nissan Pulsar in the worst way. I had been driving B-210s, the Pulsar seemed like a major step up. I went to a dealer and test drove one. Couldn't get out of it fast enough. The test drive took the salesman and I over the I-95 bridge between New London and Groton, Connecticut. It was a windy day and I could barely keep the thing on the road. Uncomfortable and just plain a cheap build.

So, I bought ...a Hyundai?

Kinda reminds me of my weird desire to someday own a Geo Metro (aka Suzuki Swift). Yes I know it's a puny, underpowered, not very pretty and somewhat dangerous car but I seem to be drawn to things like that. The fact it has a 3 cylinder engine is also weirdly alluring to me...
I also miss the Suzuki Samurai we briefly owned although we do have it's more mature cousin, a Suzuki Sidekick (the name of which is just adorable to me, it's a car and it's your sidekick. It'll always be there for you and I can attest to that fact with ours, it's indestructible and impossible to get stuck).
Suzuki where are you!?!? Bring the US the Jimny!!!

Oh, Glory -- a former girlfriend owned a 3-banger Metro for about a year. One cylinder stopped working (reason unknown) and eventually the engine swallowed a valve. Of course, she was in the middle of nowhere, broke and parked illegally. The car was towed to in impound lot and they told her she had to cough up $500 to get it released, plus whatever the fine was. I think 20 years later she still owes me $300 on top of her Glock 19.

https://youtu.be/ctwqa3QCwMw

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