# 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:** 385
**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:** [September 6, 2025, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7687 "2025-09-06T14:23:47Z")
I’ll admit it, the advertising worked. There’s more pictures of it on [his facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/ricardparten/). Edit: I wonder if it belongs to his wife, the plate is DRMGIRL ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7688 "2025-09-06T14:29:09Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I wonder if it belongs to his wife, the plate is DRMGIRL I’ve only ever seen him driving it. I’ve never seen him with a passenger. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2025, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7689 "2025-09-06T16:00:05Z")
I spotted a Lucid Gravity, my first one in the wild. I’ve only seen the Lucid Air up until now. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2025, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7690 "2025-09-07T00:18:21Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > I spotted a Lucid Gravity, my first one in the wild. You reminded me. I saw one the other day. My first Lucid Gravity seen in the wild. [![](https://i.imgur.com/jGwQrk3.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/jGwQrk3.jpeg) [[Album] Lucid Gravity ![](https://i.imgur.com/FSTIgi2.jpeg?fb "Lucid Gravity") ](https://imgur.com/gallery/6m0jFTX) ---
**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:** [September 7, 2025, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7691 "2025-09-07T01:15:10Z")
At first glance I thought it was a minivan. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2025, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7692 "2025-09-07T20:00:46Z")
Yeah it does exude minivan, right? ---
**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:** [September 7, 2025, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7693 "2025-09-07T20:45:41Z")
IMO we’ve reached the point where there’s functionally very little difference between a typical crossover and a minivan. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7694 "2025-09-07T21:22:34Z")
A powered Little Tykes car - a Smart car painted red & yellow (& Midas) in a Midas parking lot ---
**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:** [September 8, 2025, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7695 "2025-09-08T01:54:31Z")
Minivans have A LOT more cargo space, and they’re easier to get into and out of. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2025, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7696 "2025-09-08T02:26:49Z")
I saw a 1980 Le Car yesterday-51 horsepower, noisy as hell, and as stable as a drunken three-legged giraffe. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7697 "2025-09-08T02:38:29Z")
My wife had a Le Car back in the ‘80s. Strangely, I don’t remember her Camaro. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2025, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7698 "2025-09-08T02:39:47Z")
Nobody remembers the bus trip after they have seen a train wreck up close. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2025, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7699 "2025-09-08T02:39:53Z")
I’ve argued before on this board that for a lot of people, a minivan is the most versatile and practical vehicle they could own. An actual minivan: two rows of seats in the back that can be removed or folded down, a big sliding door on the side (or both sides), and a big rear hatch. They give you best of _all_ worlds: they can haul a lot of people, can be reconfigured to haul a lot of cargo, and are pretty comfortable to ride in and drive. Most new “crossovers” are basically the genetic descendants of station wagons and hatchbacks. Anyway. Speaking of minivans, the most interesting car I saw today was… uh… this thing. The front was a 90’s Ford Aerostar: [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/1bxnsew.jpeg?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/Mmh7tAf) While the rear was a pickup. [![](https://i.imgur.com/m5HPbK8.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/m5HPbK8.jpeg) No idea what pickup had an assectomy to make this ~~monstrosity~~ interesting vehicle, but here we are. My life is richer for having witnessed this thing. And, truth be told, it doesn’t hold a candle to this, which was cruising over Eugene yesterday: [![](https://i.imgur.com/N8ZX9f3.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/N8ZX9f3.jpeg) ---
**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:** [September 8, 2025, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7700 "2025-09-08T02:51:40Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > I’ve argued before on this board that for a lot of people, a minivan is the most versatile and practical vehicle they could own. An actual minivan: two rows of seats in the back that can be removed or folded down, a big sliding door on the side (or both sides), and a big rear hatch. They give you best of _all_ worlds: they can haul a lot of people, can be reconfigured to haul a lot of cargo, and are pretty comfortable to ride in and drive. Agreed. If the two dudes in a Ford Explorer had totalled our Odyssey at the end of the pandemic, we would have replaced it with the Sienna hybrid instead of the Highlander hybrid. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2025, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7701 "2025-09-08T03:20:05Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Minivans have A LOT more cargo space, and they’re easier to get into and out of. And crossovers typically have higher ground clearance than minivans. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2025, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7702 "2025-09-08T03:25:13Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > And crossovers typically have higher ground clearance than minivans. Argeed - but when you’re hauling shit to college, which is more important? ---
**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:** [September 8, 2025, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7703 "2025-09-08T04:27:51Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > when you’re hauling shit to college, which is more important? No question. Without a doubt the minivan rules there. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7704 "2025-09-08T12:46:56Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > And crossovers typically have higher ground clearance than minivans. Which is oh so important for those gravel parking lots at the soccer field, which is 99% of their ‘offroading’ 🙄 ---
**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:** [September 8, 2025, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7705 "2025-09-08T14:23:51Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Which is oh so important for those gravel parking lots at the soccer field, which is 99% of their ‘offroading’ It’s not just about offroading. Cars with lower ground clearance are also a lot more likely to get stuck in the snow, more likely to bash the front bumper into a steep driveway approach, or bottom out on a big pothole. In my case, when I get home from work after it’s been snowing, there’s often a large ridge of snow from the city plows in front of my driveway. With cars like my Honda Civics, that means parking on the street, walking though all the snow to get to my house so I can put on boots, gloves, hat etc, drag the snow blower out, clear the driveway and then, finally, get the car into the garage. With cars that I’ve had that are higher, I can drive right over it without risking my bumper or airbags or just getting stuck trying to ram through it. Besides, what difference does it make if a soccer mom wants a minivan or an SUV? Even if they have no actual use for the additional ground clearance, that comes with say, a Jeep Grand Cherokee or Tahoe over a Chrysler Town and Country, who cares? ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/7706 "2025-09-08T14:43:37Z")
I live in the Northeast; unless you’ve been away, which means what the plows pushed has had an opportunity to freeze I’ve never had an issue with it because if it’s that high that a Civic can’t get thru it, you probably shouldn’t have been driving in a 2WD car; _especially_ if you didn’t have chains on it. Yeah, the plow-compacted ‘boulders’ can be heavy to lift on a shovel but I’ve never seen one that is a match for a car on the day they were pushed there. What I was saying is the majority of ‘offroading’ those soccer moms do is an unpaved parking lot; IOW, _never_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889.md?page=384) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889.md?page=386)