The Aztec is the only car I can think of that got anywhere near as much hate! I looked them up, and honestly they pretty much look like any other compact SUV these days. But I remember thinking they were so stupid looking. The Cybertruck will forever be a disgrace though.
My girlfriends parents gifted her a PT Cruiser for graduation. We called it Sir PT Cruise Alot.
We took really good care of it, but the engine randomly siezed at 170k. We had it towed to a chryslet dealership. A mechanic was looking it over and popped in the drivers seat to get the milage.
He said, "no way," and called the other mechanics over. A few came out of the woodwork and proceeded to marvel at the odometer like it was a unicorn.
I said, "I know. Can't believe it blew up before 200k."
One of them looked at me like I was stupid, explaining, "this is legitimately highest milage PT cruiser we have ever seen blow up... Usually, they are around 90-120k when they roll in here."
Here I was thinking we got the shit end of the stick, when I guess we were actually really lucky??
Honestly I didn't hate driving a PT after college. My parents got a good deal on one for me. Felt like driving a little truck thing. But agreed that it was underpowered.
Yes, my 50-something boss bought a red one immediately. Not long after, when it started becoming popular with a specific female demographic, he said, “it’s a real chick magnet. Not in a good way.”
And apparently, the manual version drove well. A buddy test drove one and was ready to buy it until he got out and looked at it again. Instead he got a first gen Mazda 3, and those cars were fucking bulletproof.
Remember the Scion? They were unique enough to warrant their own bumper sticker line. I saw one that said ‘your boyfriend likes my box’. I thought it was hilarious.
GM was ahead of the crossover curve and they paid the price for it. The Aztec was an ugly vehicle but no more ugly than some other vehicles out there now. I could've gotten a new one for under cost back in the day and probably stupidly didn't. They were interesting cars.
Well, the Aztek's fatal flaw was that it looked as bad as the Cybertruck is. A guy I know who had one said once you got past it looking like an ass-crack, it was a pretty decent car.
I was trying to remember the name of that thing. Tha AMC Pacer. George Jetsons Flying Fishbowl. Man that thing was goofy looking. The original cab forward design.
I actually sort of liked the Aztec. It's modular design appealed to me. It still looked like an actual vehicle tho. The naziwagon just looks like a kid slapped some cardboard boxes together in their backyard.
I got a killer deal a fully loaded one back in the day. My sister owned it, and brother in law went off the road and hit a tree. It really didn't do much damage, but the new windshield was several thousand dollars at the time due to heads up display and a built in antenna. I got the car for a couple thousand dollars from them with real low miles. I drove it about a year and sold it for like 7k. Really solid vehicle with tons of useful features for its day!
This is such a good observation. I remember the hate 20 years ago but strangely you look at it now and so many Small SUVs today have copied that shape. You have to get rid of the hood scoop and slope the back just a touch more but it’s sort of the same.
I worked with a woman that had a ugly orange/yellow one. I remember trying to tease out if she got a great deal or something but I think she actually liked it. wild
The Aztec held the belt for heavyweight champion of shitty design until the old Cybertrash was released. They are the ugliest vehicles ever.. and as a bonus, they're total pieces of shit.
I used to detail cars and the quality of the aztecs interior made them a pain to clean. I remember trying so hard to scrub/wipe, you just get to the “good enough” and be done
I detailed cars for a wholesaler, so seen a ton of interiors, the aztek had the cheap fuzzy side of velcro carpet, and this really rough, rubbery, bumpy lizard skin interior. Any scuffs were pretty much permanent and towel fuzzies would grab on everywhere.
The selection bias is strong these days. Ok to graffiti political buses but not teslas and visa versa. But if anyone is surprised that crime goes up when a political party actively dismantles the societal norms and the government at the same time…well they probably didnt get good grades in history class.
Political busses are totally different from a personal vehicle.
I don’t live in the US but I do have a Tesla, I didn’t get it because I support Elon’s political views, I got it because I have a long commute and the Tesla is incredibly cheap to run compared to a traditional ICE vehicle. If I had earned more money I would have been tempted to get a different brand of vehicle but on the second hand market Tesla are pretty unbeatable regarding value. My car is not in any way an expression of political opinion.
Don’t you see how different this is from driving a bus that is literally promoting a specific ideological narrative? Expression of political opinion is the entire point of the bus.
Vandalizing someone’s car because of the brand is gross. Would be absolutely irony if these people drawing swastikas on teslas were arrested and charged with a hate crime.
There’s probably nowhere else in the country they’d openly get away with this. Seattle has become a total shit hole.
It's perfect, honestly. I saw a thread yesterday where someone was going on about how anyone who ordered one of those early on was basically evil, no exceptions, and like, what if they just thought they were cool? There's no accounting for taste, and some people like the look. For those people, this is the answer. One big ol' decal that says, "I don't like that guy, but I love this POS to death," all in one name.
Yeah, there’s really no excuse for cybertruck owners. Muskrat outed himself as the knob that he is long before the announcement/pre-order/sale of that thing.
In 2019 I wanted a cybertruck. Tbh I still think the styling of it looks alright. And back then i would have put in a pure order for a cybertruck were it not for geography and being broke. And that was a time before when i know now how much of a tool that elon guy really is.
It's like when I used to put the Apple sticker that iPods came with over the badge on my Dell laptop. The nerds would clock it when they saw I was running Windows; everyone else would when the apple wasn't lit up.
I'm surprised they didn't just change it to Rivian, but those may just be a regional thing. They look almost identical, and I've been seeing them everywhere around Georgia these last few years.
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u/ubutterscotchpine 23d ago
I was going to say, I wouldn’t even question the Mazda.