GTP Cool Wall - Citroën DS

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Citroën DS

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niky
It's not extraordinarily heavy for a saloon. And for its time, that was a respectable amount of power for an OHV engine. Still is... compared to American cars of the time with nearly twice the CiD and the same output.
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Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying he is right. I'm just saying that if some people take power and weight in account when voting it's fine.
 
Codename L
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying he is right. I'm just saying that if some people take power and weight in account when voting it's fine.
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Just pointing out his misconception and how it applies to the car in question. ;) No prob. :D
 
Eric.
Seriously uncool. Try picking a girl up in that thing.
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Dude, chicks like "cute" things(Why do you think the New Beetle sells so well), they would probably find this car cute(especially since it's a french car).:sly:
 
This, my friends, was the most technologically advanced car in the world in 1955. It had a hydropneumatic self-leveling suspension and swiveling headlights, for crying out loud! Granted, its engine wasn't exactly avant-garde, but everything else most certainly was.
 
Eric.
Seriously uncool. Try picking a girl up in that thing.
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Agreed. I fail to see what's so cool about this car... sure, it was technologically advanced for 1955, but the fact is it just doesn't get my blood pumping like other (= cooler) cars do. There's nothing exciting about it - it looks like a poo, and, well... is it likely to send you through the Pearly Gates backwards, upside down and on fire? No. Is it likely to send you flying off wet roundabouts and into hedges sideways? No. Does it have a chaingun hidden in the grille and a giant spike sticking out of the steering wheel, impaling you if you have an accident? No.

Boring = seriously uncool.

(before anyone feels like disagreeing, this is my personal opinion and I'm entitled to it)

neanderthal
Wrong.
Wrong.
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He's allowed to have an opinion, remember... ;)

neanderthal
Much easier to pick up a chic in something unique than something that may be more mundane but more pervasive.
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They'll think it's a clunker and won't go near it.
 
This car is a classic and in black (believe it or not) it looks elegant. Sub-zero :D
Just because I love it!
 
Sharky.
Agreed. I fail to see what's so cool about this car... sure, it was technologically advanced for 1955, but the fact is it just doesn't get my blood pumping like other (= cooler) cars do. There's nothing exciting about it - it looks like a poo, and, well... is it likely to send you through the Pearly Gates backwards, upside down and on fire? No. Is it likely to send you flying off wet roundabouts and into hedges sideways? No. Does it have a chaingun hidden in the grille and a giant spike sticking out of the steering wheel, impaling you if you have an accident? No.

Boring = seriously uncool.
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So, are you saying a car has to be dangerous to be cool? Or even better, cartoonish and nonsensical?
It's technology is only just filtering into mainstream cars now, 50 some odd years later. And usually as an option. All that fancy stuff came standard; the hydraulic system, the swivelling lights etc.

I watched my uncle change a tire when the car had a flat tire, without using a jack!!!!!!!!! Try that in any other car.

He's allowed to have an opinion, remember... ;)
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"It's ugly" is an opinion. Nobody likes the French is not. Although "it's ugly" should really be prefaced with "In my opinion." If you really want to speak semantics.

If he can post "it's ugly" as an opinion, I can post "Wrong" as my opinion of his opinion.
 
neanderthal
So, are you saying a car has to be dangerous to be cool?
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No. The car needs to be exciting and interesting. A DS is neither - I find it as dull as a blunt pencil. I'm not saying it would need a billion horsepower, exhausts that shoot fireballs and a laser on the roof, but rather *something* that would make you go "wow, that's awesome". Visually, the DS does nothing for me - it's a big blob with a smaller blob stuck on the top, so it would need something really cool under the skin. See below.


It's technology is only just filtering into mainstream cars now, 50 some odd years later. And usually as an option. All that fancy stuff came standard; the hydraulic system, the swivelling lights etc.
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"Fancy stuff" = uncool. Wow, self-levelling suspension? Fascinating. Swivelling headlights, I can't wait to tell my mates all about that! They'll be really interested!

Boring on the outside, boring underneath, seriously uncool.

I watched my uncle change a tire when the car had a flat tire, without using a jack!!!!!!!!! Try that in any other car.
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How is that relevant to how cool a car is?


"It's ugly" is an opinion. Nobody likes the French is not. Although "it's ugly" should really be prefaced with "In my opinion." If you really want to speak semantics.
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Ever heard of jokes?
 
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TVC
I don't know if you could call it advanced still. It has some features that some cars today don't have but it's all powered by hydraulics which isn't very advanced at all.
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Isn't necessarily worse, though. Its arguable as to whether some of the advances made by getting away from hydraulics are actually advances.
 
niky
Any girl who actually knows how to fix one is worth marrying. :D
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Indeed.

Voted Sub-Zero on this; I don't care if "fancy stuff" is "uncool" or whatever, the DS is like someone coming out with a hydrogen vehicle that you can simply fill with a garden hose and have it go 500 miles today.
 
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De Gaulle had one. Well, several. Sub Zero.
 
Uncool, it looks like a hotdog bun on wheels to me. Cool is just not what comes to mind by looking at it. I'm sure it has all kinds of innovative gizmos and gimmicks for it's age, but I don't really care about that as I don't want to be seen in it. :(?
 
LSX
Uncool, it looks like a hotdog bun on wheels to me. Cool is just not what comes to mind by looking at it. I'm sure it has all kinds of innovative gizmos and gimmicks for it's age, but I don't really care about that as I don't want to be seen in it. :(?
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Yes
 
It's a car i despise, i always thought it looked like a metal slug. It's cool none the less.
 
80Y 2C2
So are you saying the girls don't like French accents?
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Well... now that you put it that way... a girl with a French accent sounds oh-so-sexy.

A guy with a French accent always reminds me of either Inspector Closeau or Pepe le Peu.

Of course, Jean Reno is exempt from this.
 
Y'know...the temperature outside is Sub-Zero. Centigrade and Farenheit.

I kinda feel this car is kinda between the two on their scales. Kinda like the Nintendo system of the same name...In fact, what with touch screen and all, the DS and DS are pretty similar...
 
Also, my auto teacher pointed out that it looks like a cockroach. That could be an issue.

Pretty, pretty cockroach. I think this calls for paintings.

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Wow. Just... wow.

I didn't know there was anybody in the world that didn't think that the DS was one of the coolest things with 4 wheels ever produced ever.

I voted sub-zero. If there was an "Arctic" option I would have picked that.
 
See... I voted for Cool only. It's not really a fault with the car that prevents Subzeroness, but of the drivers. DS drivers are, these days, all middle-aged men with cardigans and beards and they just can't wait to tell you about the steering headlamps...
 

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