I’ve long prided myself on being able to find a reason to like most any car. Even the cars I absolutely loathe, I can make a practical justification for why it should be produced. The Ford Granada was a horrible re-hash of the Ford Maverick’s underpinnings with a pretentious body and the worst dashboard in existence, but “V8 and four-speed” can make up for a lot of wrong. The Yugo, which I caught flak for trashing recently, is a small and light car. If you’re so inclined, an engine swap could liven it up. I wish you luck. But I think I finally met my match. Driving around town yesterday I wound up stuck behind an Infiniti QX80, a monster of an SUV that is based upon a Nissan Patrol. It’s not big in a Suburban or Excursion kind of way, but (and I’m joking when I say this), it reminds me of a large-scale short bus that you’d see in urban areas. From the front it even looks a little bit like an International short bus. It’s wide, it’s fat, and in my eyes it’s freaking obnoxious. It also costs somewhere between $60,000-$80,000 for the privilege of ownership. You don’t even get a stepladder so that your kids can climb in. No, thank you.
I want to know what car is out there today, sitting on the dealership lots, that you think should go away. Done. No more production, sink the tooling next to wherever the DeLorean stamping dies are located, and move on. No more Priuses Prii hybrid hippy mobiles? Death to every Smart car? Pick a model and let ‘er rip, but justify the why. Because nobody needs a 5,500lb school bus that costs $80K and looks like the 370Z’s fat sister. And because a Suburban or Excursion can do the job better for less.
The QX56/QX80 would be a LOT better if it came with the Patrol’s 4×4 software and hardware. I considered buying a used one in a few years until I learned that the US version lacks the rear diff lock and a few other things. But yes, it is a beast of a vehicle.
Fiat 500
but I’ve only seen 3 here so I’m guessing the idiotic ad campaign will continue.
To sell the more Fiat 500’s they need to shit can the current stupid, idiotic ads and bring back the hot Italian swimsuit model.
I definitely agree on the QX80, it’s just pointless and uglier than sin. It looks like the preproduction sculpture was left on a hot plate and partially melted.
As for current vehicles that need to go away, it’s a tie between the Honda Pilot and Acura MDX.
The Pilot is just big and heavy and stupid, it’s an idiotic wallowing box that has never achieved the speed limit in its entire production life.
The MDX just makes no sense, and I’d like to see it gone. All I can figure out is that it’s a CRV (aka rolling roadblock) with a chrome-colored shovel bolted onto the front, and people pay good money for them. Why?
Ahhh zippy ole bean . Get yer freaking badge engineering knowledge up to date !
The MDX is the Honda Pilot … which is a Honda Accord underneath … while its the RDX thats a CRV … which is a Civic beneath all that pretense of luxury and SUV capability
And errr … the Pilot is big heavy and stupid ? In comparison to what ?
Seriously there Mr Moose . Afer y\’all starts running off at the keyboard … y\’all might wanna get yer facts together first … afer ya makes yerself look like a mooses ….. @$& 😉
“the Pilot is big heavy and stupid ? ”
Compared to anything practical. Most people who own a Honda Shoebox could be fine with a hatchback, which is a much better and safer alternative. You still have me (Bangshift’s sole Toyota fan) pegged as xenophobe and probably thought that I’d leap to the defense of the ‘Burb or Explodition, but I generally refer to them as “Inbreeder Battlewaons” and want them gone.
RDX, CRV, MDX, POS, it’s all the same. Grey bourgeois blobs of uninspired dreck with some idiotic alphanumeric code that even the factory doesn’t understand.
I bet that you were just waiting weeks to try and turn my “check your facts” quip from earlier back on me, right? That’s really sad. You need a hobby.
Well, you weren’t as much of a prick as you have been, so I guess this is still an improvement. It was nice while it lasted I guess.
The Suburban and Extinction [ Excursion ] do it better ?
Really ? Pray tell oh great sage of the automotive world barely out of diapers and pretending to be the arbiter of all things good taste car related …
….What in the ____ does either do better than the Infiniti [ of which I\’m no fan of ] or any other freaking Mid to Full size SUV out there ?
Drowning themselves in massive fuel consumption .. sucking gas like a Hoover in a dust field ? Taking up more damn room .. than a room … with their over extended footprint while offering less than 1/4 the interior space in the process ? Better at continually bogging down in snow and off road conditions because their AWD is such crap ? Serving no other purpose than the exercising of ones conspicuous consumption addictions ? Proving once and for all that good taste and common sense have gone out the window .. in the name of Keeping Up with the Jones ? Providing even more excuses to an already over weight and bloated American consumer to continue eating his or her self to death .. cause regardless of how fat your @$& gets .. there\’s always a car to fit you ? Better at NOT avoiding accidents because their handling and brakes are … &h** ? Managing more often than not because of their crap AWD Brakes and Handling to impede traffic on a regular basis ?
Better ? Better my lily white upper middle class svelte boomer @$& 😉
The only thing either are better at .. is inflicting even more bull**** upon the American consumer
So no no no … You wanna know what has to go .. once and for all in the US freaking overweight fat***ed of A ?
Cadillac Escalades
All premium luxury Full Size P/U\’s
.. and in fact ALL full size P/U\’s not being sold to tradesmen etc who actually need the damn things rather than buying them in some vain attempt at appearing to own a status symbol
Enough white trash morons with their gas sucking P/U\’s and excessively loud [ to no purpose ] exhausts driving around like total @$&hats pretending to be somehow more American by buying such crap while in fact barely comprehending what it actually means to be an American !!!
So, I’m guessing me and my 85 Chevy C10 with glasspacks, turn downs, and full length headers that gets about 10mpg kinda fall into that category for you since I am not a “tradesman”. I’ll just have to live with the shame I guess. Although the Big Red Bitch could hardly be described as a status symbol of any kind, and I don’t drive like a total ass hat, only a partial one.
This is the first time I’ve owned a pick up and I love the damn thing. It makes my life so much easier, from hauling full sheets of plywood and sheetrock to towing cars behind it, I can’t understand what took me so long to finally get one.
I get the attitude you’re talking about, and it does make me want to do slap the @#$! out of people. No reason to ban a perfectly legitimate and useful vehicle because of morons though. If I had the means I wouldn’t mind having some bells and whistles. Power windows, cruise control, a better stereo system, butt warmers in the seat, AC…
says the dickhead with the SUV that will take on all comers. Such a tosser…
the excursion and suburban are a hell of a lot cheaper and can actually go off pavement with out fear of braking at the slightest obstetrical
Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I drive a Suburban and love the thing. Hauls lots of people, supplies from the hardware store and tows my race car like it’s not even back there. Comfortable and a lot easier one the eyes than most any “jelly bean” car.
Oh, and those modern “green” cars, can’t load more than a bag of groceries in one. Ask me how many times someone needs my Suburban when they need to carry more than a shoebox of stuff.
Chevy Volt. Over priced, under powered, and no range.
My choice is simple. ANY car that comes in silver. The primer of the paint chart,stop,just stop. Me-to invisible people movers. Stop painting cars the color of the freeway guard rails.
I hate every car painted silver.
I think you’re onto something here.
The new Camaro. I love the drivetrain but the car is too heavy, overpriced, and butt ugly.
Just the tail lights alone are reason enough to eat a bag of coffee beans.
Gack………….
And then there’s its interior… yikes!!!
The first gen Granada had the “worst dashboard in existence?” Really? I take it you’ve never sat in a current Camaro…. that dashboard is by far the most hideous abortion in at least the last 60 years of American dashboard design.
The Ridgeline needs to die a fiery death. Useless as both a truck and an SUV.
Have you ever driven one? My mother inlaw has one….it suuuuuuuuuuucks so bad….the worst vehicle I’ve ever driven….it handles funny, the seating feels like youre riding on a tractor…visibility sucks…good lord what a cluster F-K the ridgeline is.
the Nissan Juke.
First it is fugly – people were up in arms about how ugly the Aztec was but you never hear a peep about the abortion that is the Juke.
Second- its rear sloping roofline makes the cargo area all but uselss
Third – Did I mention it is ugly, like really effing ugly…so ugly it makes the blind cry…..
I have to agree with you on that one ANGRYJOE as the Nissan Juke looks like it was designed by feces throwing, blind chimpanzees.
The Pube, er, Cube as well. What daf*q was Nissan thinking when they designed that turd?
Not only that, the damn thing is ugly! Nissan “Junk”
I couldn’t agree more on the “Juke”. Looks like too much sake and karaoke was involved in the design studio on this disaster.
The Acura ZDX – does that stand for Zero Demand Expected? It’s basically an SUV where the roofline slopes back so aggressively that you can’t actually use the back seat. I have only seen ONE such critter on the road.
I had to look this up because i’ve never heard of it before….what a turd this thing is……Visibility out the rear window has to be zero…can it be less than zero? I suspect it can. And good luck to anyone of 5ft5 getting in and out of that back seat without smashing their mellon on the roof….kill it with fire.
You can crush all of its cousin the Accord Crosstour as well. What a gawddamned rolling abortion.
Another butt ugly car. How are they selling these thing?
Any non discript jelly bean appliance bore on wheels that is marketed as something more exciting than the blob that moves people. There is no way to tell them apart except by the hideous corporate grilles that look more and more like chromed large mouth bass. I keep wondering where the stainless hook that caught it went.
Check out our all new blob! It has 2000 airbags, talks to you, and will parallel park for you because you suck at driving and are too busy snap chatting anyways.
Any car made by Hyundai/Kia they are garbage on wheels. I don’t give a damn how much money they throw at consumer reports etc. The BMW X4 and X6 are the dumbest “SUVs” ever created. I also think most of Lincoln’s line-up should be sent straight to the crusher, but that could be a function of those stupid commercials.
Bryan, it’s your job to be opinionated. If people get riled up a little from time to time, that means they are actually paying attention. I’m with you on the Yugos my friend. I’ve hated those little turds since they started shipping them here. If that’s your thing, have at it. I know I have some oddball tastes in cars, but I will never see the appeal in those.
I honestly haven’t paid enough attention to the new car market lately to be able to say which ones I think should go away. Most of my issues with particular cars stem from the usual owners of those cars more than the machine itself.
Besides the Prius.
Other than that, I’d say we could easily weed out half a dozen pr more anonymous, soul less appliance cars and no one would know the difference.