Pointless automobiles, a recollection of sorts.

[Harry6784]

I bet there's a guy on the Porsche owners forum saying that anyone driving around in an F-body might as well be carrying a sign saying "I couldn't afford a Corvette."

Hardly. Clean low mileage F-bodies are 15k. Clean low mileage C5's are 20k. I could have gotten a C5 but chose the practicality of the F-body

Personally I can think of plenty of reasons to buy a Boxster, especially the new ones.

MR layout, open top, tuned by some of the best engineers in the business, great sports car without sacrificing too much (Lotus) or without costing too much (911).

Exactly 👍

 

[Zenith]

Exactly 👍

So that makes any car that isn't a halo car pointless. Gotcha.

 

[Harry6784]

So that makes any car that isn't a halo car pointless. Gotcha.

In this particular case, yes, in my opinion

 

[Doog]

Car may be decent, but whenever I see these around, they're always driven by middle aged businessmen with dark shades and a Bluetooth in their ear. Might as well drive around with a sign saying "I couldn't afford a 911"...

If anything, the Boxster (and especially Cayman) have made the 911 pointless.

 

[Tornado]

This one is two fold. Most obviously, look at the last two pictures. Like what the 🤬. The contemporary Dodge Caravan had more exterior differences in its trim levels (nevermind the Chrysler version) than those stupid things did with each other.




More importantly though, all four of them were pointless. They were blatantly only mildly worked over versions of what was an already 8 year old design; a design itself which was basically made irrelevant in trying to take the fight to Dodge when they were shown to have the crashworthiness of a Pepsi can:

Probably related to the fact that that one was just a sobered up version of another 8 year old design (which, for all of its problems, they at least put effort into that one):

And GM felt fit to make 4 "different" versions chasing after a market that was by that point basically collapsing anyway. There is little doubt in my mind, considering how much of a bomb all four inevitably were, that GM would have been much better off if they had not bothered at all.

 

[LivingWithGames]

As much I think I may be the only one that likes this car, since D:SF, heeeeere's the Cygnet!

Seeing no one gives a damn about it, you can already tell it's pointless. Why? Because fortwo.

 

[Gotbeefboy564]

Basically a rich man's Toyota IQ.

 

[LivingWithGames]

Never thought of that thing. Very valid point.

 

[xXKingJoshXx]

Didn't they (Aston) make rebadge that so they could help their CAFE ratings or something?

 

[Tornado]

The Cygnet had the extremely important task of lowering Aston's overall carbon emissions... Until the EU rules changed to exempt the brand.


Then Aston just built it anyway, since they had already inked the deal with Toyota and never throw anything away (see: DB9 styling).

 

[-Fred-]

I don't even remember what those newer GM vans were called. Why the Chevy and Saturn versions have 6 lug wheels and the Buick/Pontiac have 5 leaves me stumped, too.

Didn't they (Aston) make rebadge that so they could help their CAFE ratings or something?

Pretty much.

 

[xMARKITOx]

As much I think I may be the only one that likes this car, since D:SF, heeeeere's the Cygnet!

Seeing no one gives a damn about it, you can already tell it's pointless. Why? Because fortwo.

I totaly agree with you. This might be one of the most pointless vehicles posted here. Good find.

 

[EvanJamesLee]

 

[White & Nerdy]

Also, I kind of get the idea behind the Murano CrossCabriolet. It's right there in the name - taking the point of a cabriolet, nice relaxing open-air drives through the countryside - and moving it off the pavement. However, it's kind of an answer to a question no one asked, as most of the places you'd go in a cabriolet probably involve, at worst, dirt roads that can be traversed by a standard passenger car anyway, and those who are into serious off-roading probably aren't going to bother buying a new car when it'll probably end up banged up anyway - and thus, if they want a cabrio, they'll buy an older Suzuki Samarai/Sidekick/Vitara or Chevrolet/Geo Tracker convertible, which is also actually capable of going off-road.

The 6 GranCoupe in particular baffles me. It's nothing more than a slightly better looking 5 series with a sloping roofline, so why not make that the 5 series instead, and get rid of the actual sedan?

That was Car & Driver's opinion. Apparently the 6 GC drives better than the 5 series too.

 

[xXKingJoshXx]

How is that pointless?

 

[White & Nerdy]

Yeah. The point of that is to show off.

 

[Slash]

Yeah. The point of that is to show off.

 

[EvanJamesLee]

How is that pointless?

There is a limo renting service in my town and these rarely get used. Most of the people who rent limos from them use it for formal gatherings like weddings. They find the design of the Hummer to be a bit too outlandish to show up in.

 

[McLaren]

Some in this thread judging pointless by the people who buy them, which misses the point completely.

Cayenne Turbo and Turbo S

Not pointless. The Cayenne sells better than everything but the Panamera (probably even more than that) these cars target those who want 911 Turbo performance in a Cayenne & it does it well. Extremely capable sport SUV that will send Mustangs & Camaros packing.

If anything, the Boxster (and especially Cayman) have made the 911 pointless.

Nailed it. Porsche has had to neuter both cars just to keep them from killing 911 sales.

The 6 GranCoupe in particular baffles me. It's nothing more than a slightly better looking 5 series with a sloping roofline, so why not make that the 5 series instead, and get rid of the actual sedan? Audi and Mercedes, with the A7 and the CLS, at least offered something desirable, something different.

The problem is that the 6GC's starting price is already above the 7 Series ($77,600 v. $74,000), so it's difficult to just cut the current 5 Series, & replace it with the 6GC.

As far as the A7 & CLS, I think the 6GC is worthy of the same positive characteristics. They're all stunning cars, but I think the M just walks away as one of the greatest looking cars in the last couple years.

 

[MedigoFlame]

Never understood the even smaller compact crossovers...
X1

GLA

Q3

This also includes their sports versions... I understand that crossovers are the current fad, but compact crossovers don't make much sense compared to their normal compact siblings.

On the other hand in the US, there's also the Buick Encore.

 

[buickgnx88]

Yes they are just fancy versions of the vehicles they are based on, but at least they could still be used to haul stuff.

This on the otherhand...

Is not only ugly, but utterly pointless.

Another is the Suzuki X90. Basically a glorified coupe based on the much better Vitara.

 

[Northstar]

Yes they are just fancy versions of the vehicles they are based on, but at least they could still be used to haul stuff.

This on the otherhand...

Is not only ugly, but utterly pointless.

Just in case anyone needs to know why it's so useless.

It came with a carpeted bed from the factory, it wasn't even an optional thing either.

 

[MedigoFlame]

I don't know how useful one could consider the GMC Envoy XUV. I remember all the ads going on about it's roof. But then wonder to myself about...how a truck would be a little better for hauling stuff.

 

[buickgnx88]

Sure you could haul something tall, though if it rains, the interior would certainly be getting wet. Methinks they just wanted to try and bring back the Studebaker Wagonaire.

 

[Ken]

The Fiat 500L. Let's take a small car which has a point and make it bigger for no reason. I don't get it.

 

[JMoney]

The car itself isn't pointless, but the pickup truck doors are.

Only existed as a road car so it could be used in NASCAR.

As if a full-size SUV wasn't big enough.

The Cayman is pointless for two reasons:

It's a Boxster with a hard roof. Why not just put a folding metal roof on the Boxster and tune up the engines?

Porsche could have made it more powerful and better than the 911, but they didn't. The Cayman wasn't designed to the best of Porsche's ability, and that bothers me.

 

[Gotbeefboy564]

I'm not a fan of the 500L.

 

[JMoney]

I'm not a fan of the 500L.

The commercials for it are good, however.

 

[Gotbeefboy564]

Wonder if they're going to do an Abarth version of the L, now that will be pointless.

 

[Ken]

Wonder if they're going to do an Abarth version of the L, now that will be pointless.

Oh god, please, no.