It doesn’t have to be a real production car, it can also be a concept.

For me, it has to be the 1997 Dodge Copperhead. This ugly chungus just speaks to me and I don’t know why. It is hideous, Pontiac Aztek levels of ugly, but I kinda wish Dodge actually sold it. It wasn’t going to be gutless, sharing much with the Viper, but it also wasn’t going to have the same price of the Viper (Viper at the time was ~$75k, this baby would have been ~$30k). For the price, a little ugly isn’t that big of a deal for a similar powertrain. Surely a facelift kit could help it out some.

Just thought a discussion like this could be fun. What cars are the same for you?

  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
    3·
    22 days ago

    That is definitely small… it has only got one seat! Functional, but with only one seat I would question its practicality.

    • tiramichu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      21 days ago

      Practical depends on who you are, right? :)

      Imagine you work as a saké distributor in Tokyo, living out of a little shop right on the streetfront with your home as an apartment above.

      Your morning is spent shuttling bottles between your shop and little mom-and-pop restaurants in the surrounding neighbourhoods.

      You have to carry heavy loads while navigating narrow streets full of pedestrians and bicycles, and park for 10 minutes at a time in places where there is nowhere proper to park - all while not blocking the street.

      When you get home in the afternoon the only place you can put your truck is the alleyway between your shop and the neighbour Ryousuke’s place, who runs the florist next door. The alleyway is only 6 feet wide, but that’s no problem because your truck is only 4-foot-three.

      Of course, back in the '70s you used to do all this with a little Honda Super-Cub motorbike! You laugh to yourself remembering how comically high you stacked those crates of bottles lashed together with rope on your pannier rack. But you’re not as young as you used to be, and after that accident in '98 your wife made you swear never to get on a bike again. You don’t argue with your wife, because she’s always right.

      Anyway - just as well you have your trusty Daihatsu Midget II, the most practical truck you could imagine.