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.
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:
Id’ve figured it was a Weyland-Yutani Staff Car.
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2nd generation Lincoln Continental Mark III (1968-71). Look at those whitewalls!
I wonder what could be under that car cover?
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.
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.
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!
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.
Be glad you don’t have a bulge in your bonnet for your photo like longboy there. Broinnng!
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”.
Yesterday evening I passed an old Toyota J50 Land Cruiser. That generation was built from 1967 all the way to 1980.
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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.
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.
My mistake, I believe it’s a 458 (2009-15).
A Toyota MR2 Spyder, 3rd gen (from 1999 to 2007).
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.
Nothing too interesting about a Tahoe/Suburban, but what caught my attention is that port/flange on the side
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?
1950 Cadillac Meteor hearse owned by Forest Lawn.
Wish I could have seen it in happier circumstances.