Automotive Guilty Pleasures

[Garage13]

Here is mine,my friends do not understand why I love the 2014 Renault twingo.I have never driven it but there is something about it that i love

 

[INEEDNAWZZZ]

One of the few brand new cars I've driven. It's pretty bland as you'd imagine, but it's strangely charming. Feels a lot like my Starlet - which isn't necessarily a good thing to most, but hey.

 

[SVX]

I can't help but see that name and think of cellery.

 

[synchromesh]

As cool as the Renault 5 Turbo is, I can't help but appreciate the lower-end Renault 5 models, even though they probably aren't the greatest things around.

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Ever seen the Lectric Leopard? Factory converted Renault 5/Le Car

 

[Janteag]

Ever seen the Lectric Leopard? Factory converted Renault 5/Le Car
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That's pretty cool.
I'd kinda like to see that modernized.

 

[titleguy1]

Any Turbocharged, manual, 4WD, Japanese Kei car has all of my guilty pleasure. That makes a very narrow set of cars, including...

 

[Sage Ages]

Debatable on being guilty, but:

 

[TexRex]

 

[Wiegert]

Second gen Santa Fe with pre-facelift grille. The only iteration that didn't look either too brash or too grotesque. Simply clean, modern, and surprisingly nice-looking for a '00s soft-roader.

 

[Liquid]

Morris Ital

A geeky Volvo 200.

 

[Niku Driver HC]

Morris Ital

A geeky Volvo 200.

It is also one of Italdesign's greatest mistakes; a car which no more than a spruced up Morris Marina, a concept that is automatically a definite red flag by itself, but Italdesign still decided to design it mainly because they needed the money, I suppose. It was such a tragedy for the company (Italdesign, not Morris) that there is no mentioning of the car anywhere on their website.

All Italian design houses have a large stain in their elegant carpets, and the Ital fullfills that role in Italdesign's history. Also, after a quick search, I have discovered that Portugal has somehow assembled a few of these monstrosoties at an assembly factory in Setúbal, for which I apologize in behalf of our country.

 

[sparkytooth]

I like these for some reason

 

[Liquid]

If I remember correctly, they called it the Ital in honour of Ital reworking the Marina but the Morris Ital itself wasn't actually designed by Ital.

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

 

[TexRex]

While I'm sure I'll never own one, I've grown fond of two-box four-doors where the trailing edge of the rear door meets the rear pillar. The segment isn't limited to it by any means, but the Mazda2 is a perfect example.

I think it has something to do with the rear wheels pushed being pushed back as far as possible.

 

[Dennisch]

It drives like crap, it's somewhat reliable under the hood, all other electric bits are true Italian and they are almost all reduced to rust piles.

I am highly confident that they one day will join the ranks of the first 500, 850 etc. as a collectable Fiat.

 

[JAHHAJ]

I've always loved these two Rovers, not too sure why, all I know is I think they look nice, my parents have owned a coupe and a 214 so that probably helped, no idea how good or bad they are to drive.

 

[MisterWaffles]

Some guilty pleasures of mine:

The ugly M6:

The squatting dog:

I think the new 2014 Oullim Motors Spirra looks quite nice:

I quite like the Hyundai Elantra coupes with the blacked-out grills too:

I'll see myself out now...

 

[R5]

I think the new Oullim Motors Spirra looks quite nice:

Didn't realise they were still around but I'm glad they are 👍

 

[JAHHAJ]

 

[TexRex]

Chose this angle to put a fine point on the guilty bit.

 

[Casey]

This

And the only late 70s American car besides Camaros and Corvetts i like actually like these 76' Pontiac Lemans.

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

And the only late 70s American car besides Camaros and Corvetts i like actually like these 76' Pontiac Lemans.

I actually like the styling of that quite a bit; it gives it character that a lot of modern GM vehicles don't seem to have.

 

[TexRex]

And the only late 70s American car besides Camaros and Corvetts i like actually like these 76' Pontiac Lemans.

I'd take it over the other two in a heartbeat (no pun intended). A Camaro is a Camaro is a Camaro--frankly it doesn't matter what year it is--and late 70s Corvettes are...well...craptastic.

 

[Niku Driver HC]

This
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Hmm... Can't say I'd call the Rallye a guilty pleasure, to be frankly honest. It's almost the holy grail of lightweight small hot-hatches, personally the lesser versions would suit the "guilty" tag better. You know, things like 1.5D-powered versions, and lord knows how well I know those (my mother owned one for the better part of 2 years before ditching it in favor of a 2001 VW Polo 1.4TDI)...

 

[homeforsummer]

Yup, nothing guilty about the Rallye. It's among the easier-to-understand pleasures among small French hot hatchbacks.

 

[ScottPuss20]

This

And the only late 70s American car besides Camaros and Corvetts i like actually like these 76' Pontiac Lemans.
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Never knew that this car existed. And I love it

 

[Sage Ages]

The Honda Civic, in all of it's 14 inch steel wheeled, single overhead cam, four door glory.

 

[Liquid]

No for the Maestro (never, ever liked them), Yes for the Montego.

As I've said earlier in the thread I'd even take an Austin Montego, let alone an MG.

 

[Grandea GTR]

Too bad we never got the VR-4 variant here.

I wonder if I'm the only one who likes this. I remember being called a queer for saying that the 11th gen T-Bird was a cool car