# What car just says "car"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 20, 2004, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-car-just-says-car/256022 "2004-07-20T16:58:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Critical\_Mass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@Critical\_Mass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical_Mass)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-car-just-says-car/256022/21 "2004-07-21T03:30:56Z")
People in the Soviet Union in ~1985 wouldn’t appreciate this thread. Car = Lada, of course. ---
**Author:** ![mike1dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@mike1dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mike1dog)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-car-just-says-car/256022/22 "2004-07-21T03:33:29Z")
I know it’s supposed to be sporty, but the new Pontiac [GTO](http://www.pontiac.com/pontiacjsp/gto/launch/) is about as generic looking as a Maytag washer. ---
**Author:** ![Arien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arien)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-car-just-says-car/256022/23 "2004-07-21T04:22:16Z")
My dull, beige 1998 Mazda Protege is pretty generic. Hey, it’s reliable and gets good mileage! ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-car-just-says-car/256022/24 "2004-07-21T08:21:11Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > To me, it’s the 70’s Dodge Dart. > [http://www.dodgedart.org/brochure/73dg1.jpg](http://www.dodgedart.org/brochure/73dg1.jpg) > No doubt it’s because that’s the first car I remember my family having. And it lasted a long time, and was the one of the first cars I ever drove. I second this nomination. Followed closely by Plymouth’s Fury or Valiant. ---
**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-car-just-says-car/256022/25 "2004-07-21T10:43:21Z")
Dodge Aries/K cars–YUCK. ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-car-just-says-car/256022/26 "2004-07-21T12:07:40Z")
“Car” is probabl most said by [Ka](http://www.ford.co.uk/ka). ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-car-just-says-car/256022/27 "2004-07-21T13:15:25Z")
Ford Tempos/Mercury Topazes Ford Focus sedans & Aspires Nissan Sentras before 1996 Any Dodge passenger sedan – save the Intrepid – from the 90s or before. Any Geo Metro or Prisms Chevy Celebritys & Corsicas Chevy Cavaliers/Pontiac Sunbirds/Buick Skyhawks/Cadillac Stupidwastesoftime from the 80s Buick Skylarks from the late 70s until their discontinuation Oldsmobile Cutlass Cieras ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-car-just-says-car/256022/28 "2004-07-21T13:44:14Z")
> [@TeaElle](#): > > Nissan Sentras before 1996 For a while in college I drove an 88 Sentra. My roomate dubbed it “car” because it was just so damn plain. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-car-just-says-car/256022.md?page=1)