GTP Cool Wall: 1981-1989 Dodge Aries

[titleguy1]

Is this an appropriate GIF?

 

[TS050]

In fact I know more about 80's cars (not motorsport or race cars) than probably all active members on the site.

Oh dear...

 

[The87Dodge]

To be fair we didn't have a GTP car of the year so far this year.

It will now join the ranks of the 2.2 Camry and the 3.1 Sunbird and be forever in our minds.

Please don't associate me with eminem and W&N just cause I praise a "crappy" car.

That's a bold statement there, knowing more than all of us combined.

It's probably true. The exception might be Slash, and Tornado (for GM at least).

The Omni, probably owing to how it was an 11/10ths scale Golf copy, was a much nicer looking car inside and out than the Aries ever was.


Tell me more.

If I tell you more, I'll be up all night because my knowledge will take up thousands of pages.

 

[AnthonyD1993]

The Omni, probably owing to how it was an 11/10ths scale Golf copy, was a much nicer looking car inside and out than the Aries ever was.


Tell me more.

I was literally going to mention how his last bout with you didn't end well for him after he said that his K-car knowledge was completely unrivaled and how nobody here knows more about him than anyone else. I was just about to make that status before you posted.

 

[Grandea GTR]

It's probably true. The exception might be Slash, and Tornado (for GM at least).
If I tell you more, I'll be up all night because my knowledge will take up thousands of pages.

So why aren't you doing it right now?

 

[TS050]

f I tell you more, I'll be up all night because my knowledge will take up thousands of pages.

Uh huh.

OK.

 

[CSLACR]

Please don't associate me with eminem and W&N just cause I praise a "crappy" car.



It's probably true. The exception might be Slash, and Tornado (for GM at least).



If I tell you more, I'll be up all night because my knowledge will take up thousands of pages.

NOBODY knows more than everyone on GTP combined. That's just idiotic.

 

[GTPorsche]

If I tell you more, I'll be up all night because my knowledge will take up thousands of pages.

Do go on then...

 

[Liquid]

This thread has gone from 0-6 pages quicker than the Aries ever could go from 0-60.

 

[Casey]

SU.

Whatever is going on here...

 

[Wiegert]

I know an Aries isn't as curvy as Kim Kardashian's buttocks, but all 80's sedans were boxy. The Aries was stylishly boxy. Foxy boxy.

Boxy is fine. Just so long as it isn't a vapid means to an end created solely to move units rather than hearts.

In fact I know more about 80's cars (not motorsport or race cars) than probably all active members on the site.

If this is indeed an invitation to prove your mettle (yet again) regarding your supposed-but-unproven ability to write essays worth of general '80s car facts, I suggest that you take it elsewhere on the forum.

That, or try for a specialist subject spot on Mastermind.

 

[1241Penguin]

Please don't associate me with eminem and W&N just cause I praise a "crappy" car.

No, you're being associated with W&N because your bias for Chrysler products is so alarming. We all have our own preferences in cars but that doesn't stop us from holding objective views on them.

 

[The87Dodge]

It certainly prevents you from remembering them in their time and makes you conjure up a ridiculous romantic notion of how "badass" this blob of nothing was.
Ohhh, you'll want to wind that particular thought back in.

Based on every car in the world ever produced, my Aries would not even be on the top 100 list for "most badass cars ever produced". And how is it a blob of nothing. I would like to see your reasoning.

 

[Tornado]

If I tell you more, I'll be up all night because my knowledge will take up thousands of pages.

I know what we can start with:

What's the difference between a Dodge 600 and a Chrysler E-Class?

 

[Cowboy]

In fact I know more about 80's cars (not motorsport or race cars) than probably all active members on the site.

 

[Grandea GTR]

And how is it a blob of nothing. I would like to see your reasoning.

Because the car itself is so plain that it can be easily forgettable?

 

[The87Dodge]

Do go on then...

You must be a very avid reader if you request that. Should I start working on a set of encyclopedias about 80's cars. That task is doable for me.

This thread has gone from 0-6 pages quicker than the Aries ever could go from 0-60.

Hey, 15 seconds isn't that long for a 80's sedan.

No, you're being associated with W&N because your bias for Chrysler products is so alarming. We all have our own preferences in cars but that doesn't stop us from holding objective views on them.

I try really hard to keep my bias in when explaining, which most of the times i can do that. It just gets hard sometimes when you know about, and favor, more about Chrysler than any other brand.

 

[TS050]

In fact I know more about 80's cars (not motorsport or race cars) than probably all active members on the site.

This just reminded me;

Didn't @Tornado literally ruin you regarding your knowledge on '80's crap no one cares about' fairly recently?

 

[LM7325]

As far as Movie cars go, imagine Vanishing Point playing out in 1981 instead, with Kowalski (in a white Aries) spending to whole movie trying to just get out of Denver.

I want to be nice, but I have hated these since I was a kid. And I grew up when they were new cars.

 

[Grandea GTR]

Should I start working on a set of encyclopedias about 80's cars. That task is doable for me.

Then do it. We've been waiting.

 

[Northstar]

Because the car itself is so plain that it can be easily forgettable?

To prove this point, I had to go back to the OP to refresh my memory on what the car being discussed looks like.

 

[Famine]

Based on every car in the world ever produced, my Aries would not even be on the top 100 list for "most badass cars ever produced".

Based on every car that Dodge produced, the Aries wouldn't even be in the top 200 list for most badass anything unless you changed the meaning of the word "badass" to "dreary".

And how is it a blob of nothing. I would like to see your reasoning.

You've already seen it. It looks like ass, it looked like ass when it was new and you couldn't pull a rotten tooth out of a dead horse's head with that engine selection.

It might be the most forgettable car I've ever seen in a Cool Wall thread. It's automotive amnesia. If it wasn't for your hilariously over-the-top whinnying, I suspect no-one would even remember it by tomorrow - and now the only thing anyone will remember it for is your hilariously over-the-top whinnying.

 

[Blitz24]

Me being not alive in the eighties doesn't prevent me from knowing a lot about 80's cars. In fact I know more about 80's cars (not motorsport or race cars) than probably all active members on the site.



It may go on for some time, but at least it's a casual discussion and not a flamewar.

You're digging a hole, and it's not going upward at this point.

 

[The87Dodge]

I know what we can start with:

What's the difference between a Dodge 600 and a Chrysler E-Class?

One's a Chrysler, the other is a Dodge.
Different starting prices.
Different rims and color trims.
E-Clas was (slightly) more luxurious than 600.
Fully optioned E-Class would have more amenities than a fully optioned 600.

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At least for American cars, maybe not for Porsches or BMWs.

This just reminded me;

Didn't @Tornado literally ruin you regarding your knowledge on '80's crap no one cares about' fairly recently?

Last I checked, nope.

 

[Tornado]

And how is it a blob of nothing. I would like to see your reasoning.

Because almost every typical American family car of that time period, with the main exceptions being the Omnirizon (and its derivatives), the "Aeroback" GM cars, and the Citation and its kin, were copying the GM Sheer Look designs of the original Seville and the 1977 Caprice. Some more blatantly than others.

 

[TB]

As the former owner of a 1982 Oldsmobile Omega (an almost carbon copy of the Aries):



I can assure you that 1) everything in that video is wrong and B) it was the worst pile of steaming horse 🤬 I've ever driven. The absolute only good thing about it was it was my first car and wad given to me by my parents and it provided me freedom to drive.

Anyone who doesn't vote SU needs their head examined.

 

[Obelisk]

Luxury defiled.

FTFY

Also, what the hell happened to this thread?!

 

[GTPorsche]

You must be a very avid reader if you request that. Should I start working on a set of encyclopedias about 80's cars. That task is doable for me.

I'm sure the task is doable for any of us. It's just a matter of how factual it would be, since, you know, it's an encyclopedia.

 

[Grandea GTR]

As the former owner of a 1982 Oldsmobile Omega (an almost carbon copy of the Aries):



I can assure you that 1) everything in that video is wrong and B) it was the worst pile of steaming horse 🤬 I've ever driven. The absolute only good thing about it was it was my first car and wad given to me by my parents and it provided me freedom to drive.

Anyone who doesn't vote SU needs their head examined.

LOLWAT 41 MPG

FTFY

Also, what the hell happened to this thread?!

It became 1 man vs. the world, pretty much.

 

[The87Dodge]

Then do it. We're waiting.

Will you still be waiting patiently after a year, because realistically, it would probably take that long.

Based on every car that Dodge produced, the Aries wouldn't even be in the top 200 list for most badass anything unless you changed the meaning of the word "badass" to "dreary".
You've already seen it. It looks like ass, it looked like ass when it was new and you couldn't pull a rotten tooth out of a dead horse's head with that engine selection.

It might be the most forgettable car I've ever seen in a Cool Wall thread. It's automotive amnesia. If it wasn't for your hilariously over-the-top whinnying, I suspect no-one would even remember it by tomorrow - and now the only thing anyone will remember it for is your hilariously over-the-top whinnying.

It may not be in the top 200 on your list, but it would on mine. But everyone has their own opinions, so that's understandable. I doubt it's the most forgettable Cool Wall car. Pyeonghwa Hwiparam? Toyota Prius? Olds Delta 88? Ford Aspire? The list goes on.

Because almost every typical American family car of that time period, with the main exceptions being the Omnirizon (and its derivatives), the "Aeroback" GM cars, and the Citation and its kin, were copying the GM Sheer Look designs of the original Seville and the 1977 Caprice. Some more blatantly than others.

Aries isn't as typical as the other 80's compacts, and I think you know why.