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TOPIC: The ugliest car ever made?
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.autos/t/b06f9b1a493d4a3a?hl=en
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Date: Sat, Jan 16 2010 1:55 pm
From: clare@snyder.on.ca
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:59:20 -0500, "Mike Hunter"
<Mikehunt2@lycos,com> wrote:
>That's one show, go to shows around the country and see if you can fine ONE
>Jap car. LOL
>
Lots of Datsun 240Z and 510 cars at any show with a motorsport theme.
Also at any "import" or "sports car" show.
You just don't get out enough Mike.
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>"Hachiroku ????" <Trueno@e86.GTS> wrote in message
>news:pan.2010.01.16.14.52.09.398633@e86.GTS...
>> On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:55:34 -0500, Mike Hunter wrote:
>>
>>> Speaking of old Toyotas, one never sees any of them at old cars shows.
>>> What's up with that?
>>
>> Have to go to the right show...
>>
>> http://www.japaneseclassiccarshow.com/
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Hachiroku ????" <Trueno@e86.GTS> wrote in message
>>> news:pan.2010.01.14.16.16.14.753015@e86.GTS...
>>>> On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:13:49 -0500, Mike Hunter wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Actually the term DOOZY is a old term that referred to something being
>>>>> as good as a Duisenberg, one of the finest car ever made. Nothing
>>>>> Toyota ever made can be compared to a Duisenberg. ;)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/03/bonham_auction/image/1969_toyota_2000_gt.jpg
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> <clare@snyder.on.ca> wrote in message
>>>>> news:v82tk51ejfi616sd97tqeapfvtc03cc4ap@4ax.com...
>>>>>> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:12:55 -0500, "Mike Hunter"
>>>>>> <Mikehunt2@lycos,com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>That is probably because it is not a Toyota
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> You misunderstood again Mike.
>>>>>> When he said the TL is a Doozy, he meant it was well in the running
>>>>>> for "Ugliest car ever built".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Beats just about any Toyota less than 15 years old. ( I mean for UGLY,
>>>>>> not for looks)
>>>>>> Some of the old Crowns and Coronas were definitely ugly, but the later
>>>>>> stuff is just "pedestrian".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For manufacturers,Daihatsu beat Toyota on the ugly scale, and Subaru
>>>>>> has definitely been pushing hard (think Tribeca and WRX) along with
>>>>>> Mitsubishi (the EVO frontend is just an example) but I don't think any
>>>>>> current manufacturer in the North American market has a firm hold on
>>>>>> the title, accross the board.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> They've ALL designed and built and foisted on the American public some
>>>>>> pretty AWFULL designs - along with some real beautys.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> However, beauty is DEFINITELY in the eye of the beholder, and what You
>>>>>> may think is beautiful I may think is horrendous, and Vise Versa.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>"tww1491" <twaugh5@cox.net> wrote in message
>>>>>>>news:FJt3n.33110$Gf3.12733@newsfe22.iad...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "Mike Hunter" <Mikehunt2@lycos,com> wrote in message
>>>>>>>> news:4b4df272$0$7749$ce5e7886@news-radius.ptd.net...
>>>>>>>>> They should do a survey of the Ugliest car manufacturer, Toyota
>>>>>>>>> would will hands down LOL
>>>>>>>> I don't know -- the Acura TL is a doozy.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> "chronicle" <rca976@live.com> wrote in message
>>>>>>>>> news:a4e44c5e-a999-4ae4-be25-04c2e40d297d@o28g2000yqh.googlegroups.com...
>>>>>>>>> x-no-archive:yes
>>>>>>>>> On Jan 12, 7:57 am, Dur
>>>>>>>>> <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@[127.1]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> (Car Lust) - Some cars are beautiful, and some ... well, not to
>>>>>>>>>> put too fine a point on it, some cars are not beautiful. The
>>>>>>>>>> proportions are off, or the detailing is overwrought, or a
>>>>>>>>>> prominent design element clashes with the rest of the styling, or
>>>>>>>>>> it's bland and boring, or something's just ... not quite right.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> And then there are those select few that are total aesthetic
>>>>>>>>>> disasters. Not just ugly, but dog ugly. Butt ugly.
>>>>>>>>>> Warthog-beaten-with-an-ugly-stick ugly. Cars it hurts just to look
>>>>>>>>>> at.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Today's subject is such a car. It was voted "the ugliest car ever
>>>>>>>>>> made" by the readers of CarData, Whether that's exactly right or
>>>>>>>>>> wrong--I can think of a few other contenders for that dubious
>>>>>>>>>> honor--this car is nevertheless one whose body panels insult the
>>>>>>>>>> very steel they were stamped out of. Continue reading only if you
>>>>>>>>>> be men and women of valor, for the styling of this automobile is
>>>>>>>>>> so just plain wrong that it would make even an Aztek owner recoil
>>>>>>>>>> in horror...
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Continued: http://xrl.us/UgliestCar
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Nothing was uglier than the Aztek.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>
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TOPIC: Tom Hanks Electric Car
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.autos/t/6ca8748d389aa867?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Wed, Jan 20 2010 12:52 am
From: jolly
Tom Hanks Electric Car
http://www.style3g.com/2010/01/electric-car.html
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