Page 4 of 7 FirstFirst ... 23456 ... LastLast
Results 46 to 60 of 99

Thread: The Most Embarrassing Car You’ve Always Wanted to Drive?

  1. #46
    Join Date
    Nov 2004
    Location
    brisbane - sub-tropical land of mangoes
    Posts
    16,251
    Quote Originally Posted by Waugh-terfall View Post
    Nah, we stopped getting the Brat/Brumby in Febuary 1994, just like AU/NZ
    I dunno why they called it Brumby for the AU market because Brat was an acronym for 'Bi-drive Recreational All-terrain Transporter' I think
    because it just suits it better.
    Andreas Preuninger, Manager of Porsche High Performance Cars: "Grandmas can use paddles. They aren't challenging."

  2. #47
    Join Date
    Dec 2003
    Location
    nr Edinburgh, Whisky-soaked Scotland
    Posts
    27,775
    The 70s Aston Martin Lagonda.
    BIG, brutally ugly and awful electronics
    HAS to be worlds most embarrassing to have owned and drive !!
    "A woman without curves is like a road without bends, you might get to your destination quicker but the ride is boring as hell'

  3. #48
    Join Date
    Apr 2006
    Location
    Los Angeles, CA
    Posts
    1,331
    I feel like this poll won't be complete until an Englishman nominates a Reliant Robin.

  4. #49
    Join Date
    May 2005
    Location
    UK
    Posts
    3,160
    Reliant Robin
    uәʞoɹq spɹɐoqʎәʞ ʎɯ

  5. #50
    Join Date
    Oct 2006
    Posts
    10,227
    Quote Originally Posted by NicFromLA View Post
    I feel like this poll won't be complete until an Englishman nominates a Reliant Robin.
    Quote Originally Posted by Jack_Bauer View Post
    Reliant Robin
    That was a 4 minute response.

    Ask and ye shall receive.

  6. #51
    Join Date
    Oct 2005
    Location
    95616
    Posts
    5,357
    Quote Originally Posted by Jack_Bauer View Post
    Reliant Robin
    In that case, a Mini Cooper w/ a primer gray hood.
    I'm dropping out to create a company that starts with motorcycles, then cars, and forty years later signs a legendary Brazilian driver who has a public and expensive feud with his French teammate.

  7. #52
    Join Date
    Aug 2003
    Location
    ACT,Canberra Australia
    Posts
    6,086
    Quote Originally Posted by clutch-monkey View Post
    because it just suits it better.
    That and calling it after a term for an australian wild horse also fits the market better.
    Lifts heavy things and hits hard......also eats as much as 2/3 people and sleeps 10 hours a day!

  8. #53
    Join Date
    Oct 2006
    Location
    Surrey, England
    Posts
    4,000
    Quote Originally Posted by Matra et Alpine View Post
    The 70s Aston Martin Lagonda.
    BIG, brutally ugly and awful electronics
    HAS to be worlds most embarrassing to have owned and drive !!
    I don't quite know how they did it, the Series I looked like a malformed pig of some-sort, the obergeine leather of the one I was in yesterday actually made me want to vomit.
    V0R5PRU7NG DUR6CH T3CHN1K

    Motion & Emotion

  9. #54
    Join Date
    Aug 2003
    Location
    ACT,Canberra Australia
    Posts
    6,086
    The Aston Martin Lagonda was a luxury four-door sedan (saloon) built by Aston Martin of Newport Pagnell, England, between 1976 and 1989. 645 examples of this model were produced and the average selling price was £150,000.

    Aston Martin was about to go out of business in the mid-1970s and needed something to bring in some much-needed funds. Traditionally, Aston Martin had worked on 2+2 sports cars, but the Lagonda — the model being named after a grand sporting marque — was a four-door saloon with a brand new V8 engine. As soon as it was introduced, it drew in hundreds of deposits from potential customers, helping Aston Martin's cash reserves.

    The car was designed by William Towns in an extreme interpretation of the classic 1970s "folded paper" style. It was as unconventional a design then as it is now. Car enthusiasts are fiercely divided on the car's aesthetic value.

    Throughout the history of the marque, these hand-built Lagondas were amongst the most expensive saloons in the world. The only other "production" cars to approach its lofty price tag were the Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit/Silver Spur, Bentley Mulsanne, and Maserati Quattroporte.[citation needed]

    A number of "series" were produced during the lifetime of the model, including a facelift in the 1980s which attempted to round off the car's razor-like lines and removed the troublesome pop-up headlights, which had proved unreliable.

    The Lagonda was the first production car in the world to use computer management and a digital instrument panel, although the computers in many of the original cars are failure-prone. The development cost for the electronics alone on the Lagonda came to 4 times as much as the budget for the whole car. The second series used cathode ray tubes for the instrumentation, which proved even less reliable than the original model's LED display.

    And exert from wiki and that is one ugly car...with aston amrtins hope pinned on that car no wonder they went broke.
    Lifts heavy things and hits hard......also eats as much as 2/3 people and sleeps 10 hours a day!

  10. #55
    Join Date
    Oct 2006
    Location
    Surrey, England
    Posts
    4,000
    The one they show there is the Series II, 3, or 4 I think, the Series I is a 4-door saloon based on the V8 model, only 7 or so built I think:
    Last edited by Waugh-terfall; 03-05-2008 at 12:16 PM.
    V0R5PRU7NG DUR6CH T3CHN1K

    Motion & Emotion

  11. #56
    Join Date
    Feb 2005
    Location
    Barcelona
    Posts
    33,489
    Quote Originally Posted by Falcon500 View Post
    The Aston Martin Lagonda was a luxury four-door sedan (saloon) built by Aston Martin of Newport Pagnell, England, between 1976 and 1989. 645 examples of this model were produced and the average selling price was £150,000.

    Aston Martin was about to go out of business in the mid-1970s and needed something to bring in some much-needed funds. Traditionally, Aston Martin had worked on 2+2 sports cars, but the Lagonda — the model being named after a grand sporting marque — was a four-door saloon with a brand new V8 engine. As soon as it was introduced, it drew in hundreds of deposits from potential customers, helping Aston Martin's cash reserves.

    The car was designed by William Towns in an extreme interpretation of the classic 1970s "folded paper" style. It was as unconventional a design then as it is now. Car enthusiasts are fiercely divided on the car's aesthetic value.

    Throughout the history of the marque, these hand-built Lagondas were amongst the most expensive saloons in the world. The only other "production" cars to approach its lofty price tag were the Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit/Silver Spur, Bentley Mulsanne, and Maserati Quattroporte.[citation needed]

    A number of "series" were produced during the lifetime of the model, including a facelift in the 1980s which attempted to round off the car's razor-like lines and removed the troublesome pop-up headlights, which had proved unreliable.

    The Lagonda was the first production car in the world to use computer management and a digital instrument panel, although the computers in many of the original cars are failure-prone. The development cost for the electronics alone on the Lagonda came to 4 times as much as the budget for the whole car. The second series used cathode ray tubes for the instrumentation, which proved even less reliable than the original model's LED display.

    And exert from wiki and that is one ugly car...with aston amrtins hope pinned on that car no wonder they went broke.
    Or to sum it up, classic 70's excess...
    Lack of charisma can be fatal.
    Visca Catalunya!

  12. #57
    Join Date
    Oct 2006
    Location
    Surrey, England
    Posts
    4,000
    <3 the 70s
    V0R5PRU7NG DUR6CH T3CHN1K

    Motion & Emotion

  13. #58
    Join Date
    Feb 2005
    Location
    Barcelona
    Posts
    33,489
    Quote Originally Posted by Waugh-terfall View Post
    <3 the 70s
    Nah, the 80's are better.
    Lack of charisma can be fatal.
    Visca Catalunya!

  14. #59
    Join Date
    Nov 2004
    Location
    brisbane - sub-tropical land of mangoes
    Posts
    16,251
    goggomobile...
    Andreas Preuninger, Manager of Porsche High Performance Cars: "Grandmas can use paddles. They aren't challenging."

  15. #60
    Join Date
    Aug 2003
    Location
    ACT,Canberra Australia
    Posts
    6,086
    Quote Originally Posted by clutch-monkey View Post
    goggomobile...
    Not a DART!
    Lifts heavy things and hits hard......also eats as much as 2/3 people and sleeps 10 hours a day!

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)

Similar Threads

  1. Mercedes-Benz C111 Research Car 1969-1979
    By Matt in forum Matt's Hi-Res Hide-Out
    Replies: 24
    Last Post: 08-22-2021, 06:02 AM
  2. Favorite James Bond Automobile
    By toyota_trevor in forum Car comparison
    Replies: 110
    Last Post: 05-26-2021, 07:18 AM
  3. GT4 whole car list!!!!
    By Mustang in forum Gaming
    Replies: 247
    Last Post: 07-07-2010, 08:06 AM
  4. Replies: 47
    Last Post: 01-29-2006, 08:35 AM
  5. '04 Goodwood Festival of Speed
    By DB9Vantage in forum Miscellaneous
    Replies: 27
    Last Post: 06-15-2004, 03:22 PM

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •