# What's the most interesting car you saw today? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 21, 2014, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889 "2014-05-21T02:35:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 363
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7247 "2025-04-06T22:00:40Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > My dad bought a T3 diesel Vanagon. Your dad would NOT have wanted that POS. > > It really really sucked. REALLY. It was the same diesel engine that VW put into the Rabbit and Dasher, so it was so very underpowered for the Vanagon. As a very happy owner of a diesel Rabbit since new, I’m sure he noticed that. I’m pretty sure he also considered the safety factor and didn’t want anything so similar to that first generation Ford van he owned when I was born. Sold the van and bought a new Ford Ranch Wagon a couple of years later. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7248 "2025-04-07T01:01:20Z")
If I saw that on the road, I’d assume it was an unmarked police car, at least until I got closer. In my area, a lot of them are plain, white Ford Explorers, similar to this: [![](https://carfax-img.vast.com/carfax/v2/1900013529726586519/8/640x480?format=webp) ](https://carfax-img.vast.com/carfax/v2/1900013529726586519/8/640x480?format=webp) ---
**Author:** ![EnolaStraight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@EnolaStraight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnolaStraight)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7249 "2025-04-07T08:03:22Z")
Id’ve figured it was a Weyland-Yutani Staff Car. [il\_1588xN.3376128892\_nof0.jpg (1588×1536)](https://i.etsystatic.com/20173081/r/il/c30d0a/3376128892/il_1588xN.3376128892_nof0.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7250 "2025-04-07T16:25:23Z")
2nd generation Lincoln Continental Mark III (1968-71). Look at those whitewalls! [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/bnReyuA.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/bnReyuA) [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/HnKX42H.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/HnKX42H) ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7251 "2025-04-09T01:00:10Z")
I wonder what could be under that car cover? [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/t6z1aX1.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/t6z1aX1) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7252 "2025-04-09T11:48:08Z")
It’s probably two smaller cars wearing a trench coat trying to sneak into the limousine convention. Unrelated, I’m uncomfortable with the way the tarp is neatly tucked behind the wheels. I can’t help but imagine someone trying to move it around in the parking lot with a spotter yelling directions. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7253 "2025-04-09T16:50:47Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > > [@Bullitt](#): > > > > My dad bought a T3 diesel Vanagon. Your dad would NOT have wanted that POS. > > > > It really really sucked. REALLY. It was the same diesel engine that VW put into the Rabbit and Dasher, so it was so very underpowered for the Vanagon. > > As a very happy owner of a diesel Rabbit since new, I’m sure he noticed that. I’m pretty sure he also considered the safety factor and didn’t want anything so similar to that first generation Ford van he owned when I was born. Sold the van and bought a new Ford Ranch Wagon a couple of years later. Very cool. You’re not going to believe this, but just yesterday while gassing up I spotted this 1982 diesel VW Rabbit Pickup! The owner has had it 25 years. He is the second owner. When the transmission went he had a 5 speed manual tranny installed to replace the original 4 speed. He loves it! I took 3 pictures. [![](https://i.imgur.com/TLQY26l.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/TLQY26l.jpeg) [[Album] 1982 diesel VW Rabbit Pickup ![](https://i.imgur.com/0ZW6IjZ.jpeg?fb "1982 diesel VW Rabbit Pickup") ](https://imgur.com/gallery/HuC7QR2) ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7254 "2025-04-09T17:16:35Z")
Too late to edit my post, to add this — I have some personal history with this. Many years ago my dad bought a 1982 diesel VW Vanagon. The thing was an absolute dog. Really a terrible engine in a nice van. VW in their infinite wisdom put the same, weak, meager 1.6L diesel engine that they used in the small Rabbit and Dasher and Rabbit pickup (like this one) into the big and boxy Vanagon. The engine worked adequately well in the Rabbit and Dasher and Rabbit pickup, but not the big Vanagon! I was young and broke with no money and with 3 little kids, and my dad disliked that diesel Vanagon so much that he never used it. So I started using it and I eventually adopted it. I had been driving a tiny 1984 Toyota Starlet, an excellent car but super tiny for a family of 5. Upgrading to the Vanagon was really a luxury. A dog with many fleas, but still a luxury. **I once timed that Vanagon, 0-60. It was about 2 minutes. I kid you not.** We loved the big, spacious Vanagon but we also despised that awful engine. Some of my family and long time friends and my ex-wife will remember that diesel Vanagon! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7255 "2025-04-09T18:44:29Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > I spotted this 1982 diesel VW Rabbit Pickup! I wouldn’t mind owning one of those but I likely wouldn’t be very comfortable driving. Even with the Rabbit’s seat all they way back, I had to drive with my knees almost right up against the dash. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7256 "2025-04-10T02:16:56Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Unrelated, I’m uncomfortable Be glad you don’t have a bulge in your bonnet for your photo like longboy there. Broinnng! ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7257 "2025-04-11T11:26:59Z")
We were approaching a stoplight yesterday and the car ahead of us was a Cybertruck. I was briefly confused by the Ford logo pasted onto the back. It was not the same Cybertruck I spotted at the same intersection a few months earlier, that I noted here at the time. That one was a different color and had a different distinctive sticker 3 Earlier that day, we spotted a Tesla sedan with a sticker saying “I bought it before I knew Elon was crazy”. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7258 "2025-04-11T16:54:34Z")
Yesterday evening I passed an old [Toyota J50 Land Cruiser](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Land_Cruiser#J50). That generation was built from 1967 all the way to 1980. Photo from Wikipedia: [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/1979_Toyota_Land_Cruiser_FJ55.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/1979_Toyota_Land_Cruiser_FJ55.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7259 "2025-04-11T18:22:09Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Later today for the first time I saw a Hyundai IONIQ 6. I couldn’t snap a pic so these are web photos. The styling is a little edgy… perhaps a little too edgy. > > [The Hyundai IONIQ 6 - Album on Imgur](https://imgur.com/gallery/lPY9USH) Popping in to mention I’d gotten an IONIQ 6 this week. I will say, this and my old Karmann-Ghia are the only two cars where total strangers stopped to ask about it. ---
**Author:** ![gregorio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@gregorio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gregorio)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7260 "2025-04-11T19:49:24Z")
IMO the Ioniq 6 looks way better in person than in any photograph I’ve seen. And yes, very distinctive. I saw an Ionic 5 driving past the other day and thought how ordinary looking it has become. I still like it a lot and that would be what I would buy today (if I were buying) but that model is starting to blend in the background to me. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7261 "2025-04-11T21:43:15Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > There’s a Ferrari 296 (cherry red, of course) parked at a body shop near me. Next time I go by I’ll snap a photo. My mistake, I believe it’s a 458 (2009-15). [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/6FwzF5E.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/6FwzF5E) ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7262 "2025-04-12T06:51:23Z")
A Toyota MR2 Spyder, 3rd gen (from 1999 to 2007). [![](https://i.imgur.com/0fEsobJ.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/0fEsobJ.jpeg) [[Album] Toyota MR2 Spyder, 3rd gen (from 1999 to 2007) ![](https://i.imgur.com/59nFsvv.jpeg?fb "Toyota MR2 Spyder, 3rd gen (from 1999 to 2007)") ](https://imgur.com/gallery/HrF8WU6) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7263 "2025-04-12T06:56:26Z")
I almost stubbed my toe on a Mazda 2 today. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7264 "2025-04-12T11:47:36Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I almost stubbed my toe on a Mazda 2 today It’s not often I get to break out this clip, but I’ll take it. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Z3MhS_TzPbA/maxresdefault.jpg "Family Guy - Miata is not a real sports car") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3MhS_TzPbA) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7265 "2025-04-12T11:58:06Z")
Nothing too interesting about a Tahoe/Suburban, but what caught my attention is that port/flange on the side [![](https://i.imgur.com/oJ1vgiE.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/oJ1vgiE.jpeg) My WAG is that it’s the exhaust, I just can’t WAG why it would be like that. Partially pointing me in this direction is the lack of a normal exhaust pipe, but that could mean anything from it rusted off to it’s simply not visible in the picture. Regardless, I can come up with a number of ideas why having an exhaust port like that wouldn’t make sense, so, what is it? ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7266 "2025-04-12T21:24:49Z")
1950 Cadillac Meteor hearse owned by Forest Lawn. [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/FBCaMBO.jpeg?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/D01n8lJ) Wish I could have seen it in happier circumstances. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889.md?page=362) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889.md?page=364)