# 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:** 369
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7367 "2025-05-19T14:52:21Z")
Enlarge for bumper message. [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/6Rt7yxX.jpeg?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/MxGmA9c) ---
**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:** [May 19, 2025, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7368 "2025-05-19T15:21:42Z")
Here’s another entry in the “Elon haters Tesla owners club” [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/jKuY9TK.jpeg?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/aJncIrB) ---
**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:** [May 19, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7369 "2025-05-19T15:40:49Z")
Some help identifying this Chevy Pickup year, I think it has to be between 47 and 51. [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/5MEgSPL.jpeg?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/9nyJQ3q) Also, my first VW ID.Buzz but it’s as a dealership, so not sure if it counts. IMO, it doesn’t look great from the side. [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/qp5bcPG.jpeg?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/M6uKVo1) ---
**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:** [May 20, 2025, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7370 "2025-05-20T02:34:10Z")
Today, a yellow Mercedes TD300 wagon. Like in this web pic: [![](https://oldcarjunkie.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/1982-mercedes-300td-v8-1.jpg) ](https://oldcarjunkie.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/1982-mercedes-300td-v8-1.jpg) It’s a diesel Mercedes-Benz W123. Model years are 1976–1986. I admire those old diesels. They’re near indestructible and can run forever! I saw it coming up to pass me on the highway climbing up the Santa Cruz Mountains (Patchen Pass, 1,800’). I was admiring it behind me and watching it pass me, but as it passed me I saw the driver was a nice young lady and its license plate was **BABE WGN**. I had to smile at that! Love it!! Double posting this because it belongs in both threads, in here and in ➜ [Custom Licence Plates — Seen in the Wild - #1364 by Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/custom-licence-plates-seen-in-the-wild/992965/1364) ■ ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2025, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7371 "2025-05-20T02:46:49Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > The car is near and dear to my heart because my first USMC paychecks went to buying a 1979 Fiat X1/9, which was the first car I ever bought. > > Here, I’m on the right with my brother in San Francisco. How weird (and oddly comforting\*) to see this car on imgur today! I remembered your Fiat from a much earlier post about the X1/9 and your brother. \*I’ve never run into a Doper elsewhere, even online; kind of like seeing a favorite cousin at a music festival. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2025, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7372 "2025-05-22T18:39:38Z")
[![](https://i.imgur.com/jGtcoAc.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/jGtcoAc.jpeg) [![](https://i.imgur.com/bg2yoMb.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/bg2yoMb.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7373 "2025-05-22T19:09:09Z")
In that second photo I thought that was some weird sort of Mad Max style vehicle heading straight for the pink and blue SUV! On closer look I realized it’s the back of a tow truck. 🤦‍♂️ ---
**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:** [May 22, 2025, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7374 "2025-05-22T20:27:12Z")
Hm. Doesn’t look like [Tadoe art.](https://www.redbubble.com/shop/tadoe+prints) 😉 ---
**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:** [May 22, 2025, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7375 "2025-05-22T23:34:23Z")
The wrap appears to be called Baby Milo. The closed I could find WRT the plate is a rapper that had their wrapped car stolen in Illinois. I doubt it’s related though. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7376 "2025-05-23T03:44:24Z")
I saw a vehicle that looked like one of the Telo trucks, except it had a closed back (I think), plus it was all painted in some loud pattern (blue and white diagonal stripes?), and it had a blue light over the cab like a UK police car. This is all based on a very brief glimpse, because I was driving and it was going in the other direction. Location: northern San Mateo county, just south of San Francisco. If anyone can identify it from the description, I’d love to know what it was. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2025, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7377 "2025-05-23T12:08:11Z")
Well they are HQ’d in San Carlos so it could’ve been a Telo with a wrap job. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2025, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7378 "2025-05-24T05:08:58Z")
At a Subaru dealership I saw this poster of a car I’d never ever seen before, either in a picture or IRL, the 1970 Subaru 360. Its engine displaces a tiny 356 CCs. [![](https://i.imgur.com/KxfU9eV.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/KxfU9eV.jpeg) ---
**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:** [May 24, 2025, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7379 "2025-05-24T05:43:07Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > the 1970 Subaru 360 Imported by none other than [Malcolm Bricklin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Bricklin), the same guy who would later import the Yugo to the US. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2025, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7380 "2025-05-24T14:51:49Z")
That’s the type of car that looks like it’ll go end over end if you hit a bump. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7381 "2025-05-24T15:47:57Z")
One of my brothers friends had one of those in high school 1970 sounds right. I think he paid $500 for it new. Kind of funny, he had a Honda 450 motorcycle. The bike had a bigger engine, and even that would be considered not that big. 750’s where all the rage. My brothers friends and he would move it around in the parking lot. He never knew if he would find his car. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7382 "2025-05-24T16:03:18Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Kind of funny, he had a Honda 450 motorcycle. The bike had a bigger engine, and even that would be considered not that big. 750’s where all the rage My first motorcycle had a 750. My 90’s era Harley has a 1340. A 1970 Beetle (not exactly known as a performance car) had a 1600. My 1968 Beetle has a 1500. That Subaru is basically a [Cozy Coupe](https://www.littletikes.com/products/cozy-coupe) with a mini-bike engine. 😛 ---
**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:** [May 24, 2025, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7383 "2025-05-24T16:15:24Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > > [@Bullitt](#): > > > > the 1970 Subaru 360 > > Imported by none other than [Malcolm Bricklin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Bricklin), the same guy who would later import the Yugo to the US. When Bricklin couldn’t sell them, he turned them into big go-karts. > **[Subaru 360 FasTrack II- 1971 - Lane Motor Museum](https://www.lanemotormuseum.org/collection/cars/item/subaru-360-fastrack-ii-1980/)** > > Hardware store tycoon and automotive entrepreneur Malcolm Bricklin became the first to import Subarus to the US when he founded Subaru America in 1968. Although the brand was popular in Japan, Bricklin was not able to sell many after a 1970 Consumer... ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7384 "2025-05-24T16:49:13Z")
If you’re the readin’ kind, I highly recommend _The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History_ by Jason Vuic. Its not only a fascinating read that dissects the Yugo (which actually had the DNA to be a better car than we ended up getting) but it also devotes a few chapters to Bricklin himself. I find it fascinating that Bricklin is single-handedly responsible for bringing both Yugo and Subaru to the US. One became a pariah and the other became phenomenally popular – both reputations justified. Edit: > **[The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History: Vuic, Jason:...](https://www.amazon.com/Yugo-Rise-Fall-Worst-History/dp/0809098954)** > > The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History \[Vuic, Jason\] on Amazon.com. \*FREE\* shipping on qualifying offers. The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History ---
**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:** [May 24, 2025, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7385 "2025-05-24T16:56:13Z")
I’m new to Subaru. I bought my first one last year. Malcolm Bricklin brought Subaru to the US? Cool. Slinks off to read… Added after reading 30 seconds: not only did he bring Subaru to the US, he also brought the first car I ever bought, the Fiat X1/9. Cool! ---
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> [@Lancia](#): > > Its not only a fascinating read that dissects the Yugo I had a friend in high school (late 80s) that had a Yugo his parents bought new, and I got to drive it occasionally. A Yugo with four people in it was perfectly capable of doing such important teenage things as going to the movie theater or pizza place. His girlfriend had a shitty American hatchback, maybe a Dodge Omni, that wasn’t that much better. Thinking back to all of the hatchbacks I dealt with the in the 80s is quite the nostalgia trip. All of those cars were pretty bad, but some so much worse than others. I’m so glad when it came time for my parents to buy a little hatchback they ended up getting a Toyota Pickup instead. All years are approximate - 1980 VW Rabbit (gas) - 1979 Chevy Chevette - 1978 Toyota Tercel - 1986 Yugo - 1984 Dodge Omni - 1980 Honda Civic [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889.md?page=368) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889.md?page=370)