Cars that you wish were sold in the UK
Discussion
pulliptears said:
I appreciate that what I'm about to say will likely leave most of PH laughing at pointing in derision, but I like this...
Admittedly, I'm a big Breaking Bad fan, but there is just something about this car thats so ugly its nice.
I always thought that Walter White drives an Aztek due to a similarly clever thought process to the one that put Alan Partridge in a Rover.Admittedly, I'm a big Breaking Bad fan, but there is just something about this car thats so ugly its nice.
D900SP said:
Dodge also made the 3500 Mega Cab for those wanting a bigger truck.
I had a car transporting company delivering a (small) car and the driver said the MC is so long that it was only possible to load one MC and one normal Ram on the transporter.
Still, the 3500 diesel dually four-door does appeal to me......
I had a car transporting company delivering a (small) car and the driver said the MC is so long that it was only possible to load one MC and one normal Ram on the transporter.
Still, the 3500 diesel dually four-door does appeal to me......
Twincam16 said:
I always thought that Walter White drives an Aztek due to a similarly clever thought process to the one that put Alan Partridge in a Rover.
I think you're probably spot on with that, without giving too much away in case you aren't up to date on BB he does get rid of the Aztec as he gets meaner and swaps it for a Trans Am I think. The car signified Walt, dull, suburban etc.I can't help it though I do like it
pulliptears said:
I think you're probably spot on with that, without giving too much away in case you aren't up to date on BB he does get rid of the Aztec as he gets meaner and swaps it for a Trans Am I think. The car signified Walt, dull, suburban etc.
I can't help it though I do like it
For me it went deeper than that. A beige Aztek of all things with missing wheeltrims and the fact that even as a chemistry teacher he's having to work in a car wash at weekends said to me that by judgementally capitalist American standards he wasn't even any good at being suburban. It's a loser's car. No doubt if they set it in the Fifties he'd be in an Edsel.I can't help it though I do like it
excel monkey said:
Twincam16 said:
It's a loser's car. No doubt if they set it in the Fifties he'd be in an Edsel.
What would he drive if the show was set in the UK?pulliptears said:
excel monkey said:
hat would he drive if the show was set in the UK?
Interesting question that. My idea of dull and suburban would be a mint green Ford Focus, but I imagine there are more cars that epitomise Walt out there.
The Aztek would have been a heavily-discounted ugly from the backyard of a dealer's lot, even if it was sold new. I reckon he'd have the same sort of thing that's tilted at the Focus/Mondeo market, but that failed spectacularly and ended up having to be discounted in order to shift them.
Can't see him in a Proton. From what I can see the new ones aren't bad cars and seem to be bought by people who know they've been fettled by Lotus (with the exception of the Savvy, which is bought almost solely by pensioners). Skodas are respectable middle-class cars these days and I can't see him in something French and avant-garde either.
I'm thinking a Chevrolet Lacetti.
Twincam16 said:
pulliptears said:
excel monkey said:
hat would he drive if the show was set in the UK?
Interesting question that. My idea of dull and suburban would be a mint green Ford Focus, but I imagine there are more cars that epitomise Walt out there.
LuS1fer said:
prand said:
LuS1fer said:
EFA.
I think she is. The City Rover tried to pull the wool with it's "for OAPs" pitch and cars like the Daihatso Cuore and Sirion have never sold well nor that little car that James May once said was like an old Mini - name escapes me now.
I always thought the old Twingo would be a great, basic car in the 2CV mould - but not in the beefed up, complex version we get. I suppose it's to do with the car snobbery, NCAP protection, emission levels etc that stop "basic" cars being sold here - like the SA VWs. (I'd love to have an imported Mk1 VW Caddy, but as someone has said it wouldn't pass the reglations to be run in the UK).I think she is. The City Rover tried to pull the wool with it's "for OAPs" pitch and cars like the Daihatso Cuore and Sirion have never sold well nor that little car that James May once said was like an old Mini - name escapes me now.
http://www.carpages.co.uk/perodua/perodua-kelisa-1...
"the Kelisa provides Britain’s best value motoring proposition without compromising on equipment or quality".
pulliptears said:
Twincam16 said:
pulliptears said:
excel monkey said:
hat would he drive if the show was set in the UK?
Interesting question that. My idea of dull and suburban would be a mint green Ford Focus, but I imagine there are more cars that epitomise Walt out there.
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