Hooniverse Asks- What Car Do you Wish Was Made, But Isn't?

Robert Emslie

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Entry-level Porsche, Mid-engine Corvette, or the mythical phoenix that is the Pontiac Trans Am, is there a car out there that, if they’d just build the damn thing, you’d be camped in front of the dealer to buy one?
Let’s try and keep some semblance of reality here- no $12,000 Ferrari, or Cadillac with an automatic hooker dispenser in the trunk. But if you’d really like a Viper shooting brake, or a Ford Fusion Ranchero, let us know. With so many makers cutting back on the models they build, there must be something that isn’t out there for you. So, what do you wish you could buy, but can’t?

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79 responses to “Hooniverse Asks- What Car Do you Wish Was Made, But Isn't?”

  1. Alff Avatar
    Alff

    Datsun 510

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  2. P161911 Avatar
    P161911

    When the Trailblazer SS came out I really wished that they had made a 2-door version that would have cut out several hundred pounds of extra weight. Oh with some sort of paddle shift manual transmission too. 2004 was the last time that I was looking for a new car and I probably wont' ever look for a brand new one ever again. The wife's grandpa retired from GM so we got the employee discount, plus all the other rebates when we got our 2004 Trailblazer. I could have probably talked the wife into a SS and maybe even a two door, she wouldn't go for a manual transmission, but a paddle shift with a full auto mode would probably fly. The SS came out a few months after we bought out Trailblazer.
    I still get to drive fun cars, I just don't want to pay the $$$ to buy them new. The wife gets the nice new(er) family cars.

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  3. scroggzilla Avatar
    scroggzilla

    I second Number Six and Alff's sentiments. Can't a fella or a gal get a small RWD car on the order of a 2002tii, GTV 1750, 510 or Mk1 or 2 Escort RS? I just finished watching some video of the 77 Lombard RAC rally, and I'd sell my soul for a 21st century equivalent of an Escort RS1800.

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    1. Goingincirclez Avatar
      Goingincirclez

      I'll third those. My suggestion above is in the "family mode" of thought that would likely dictate my ultimate decision, but if any of your suggestions came along – or my own, in the vein of a reborn, smaller (2-door-Fusion-sized?) RWD Thunderbird, I'd be a very happy dealership camper.

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  4. Tanshanomi Avatar
    Tanshanomi

    I've wanted one of these for as long as I can remember…
    <img src="http://www.tanshanomi.com/temp/godoggo.jpg"&gt;

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    1. Tanshanomi Avatar
      Tanshanomi

      Okay, okay…seriously? Realistically? What would I really be not only camped out for, but willing to swing the monthly payments for? Either
      <img src="http://www.tanshanomi.com/temp/soulchero.jpg"&gt;
      …or…
      <img src="http://www.tanshanomi.com/temp/SWB_RAM.jpg"&gt;

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    2. Alff Avatar
      Alff

      Do you like my hat?
      … sorry, small children in home.

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      1. ptmeyer84 Avatar
        ptmeyer84

        It's a party hat!

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    3. scroggzilla Avatar
      scroggzilla

      <img src="http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z231/triguy46_2007/toonces.jpg"&gt;
      Pfft…..everyone knows cats make the best drivers

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  5. engineerd Avatar
    engineerd

    Since Mr. Circlez already mentioned the Fusion SHOwagon, I had to come up with something else. This turned out to be a somewhat difficult task.
    As time goes on my desires for a car are beginning to change. For so long, as you all know, I have resisted a "practical" family car. While Mrs. engineerd has not yet said those fateful words that will cause me to put he Mustang up for sale, and hopefully won't be saying them for another few years, I know that time is coming. So, rather than pining over Porsche's latest or thinking of upgrading to a Mustang GT, I've been looking at "practical" 4-door cars and trying to decide what I want. I've decided on several cars and only finances will limit me. One of those cars is the Taurus SHO. However, most of the other cars on my list are wagons. Why? Simple — once I have kids I'll have crap to haul around. The utility of a wagon, while still maintaining a modicum of handling (unlike an SUV) is alluring to me.
    So, that leads me to my wish: an AWD Ford Taurus SHOwagon. In black.

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    1. Goingincirclez Avatar
      Goingincirclez

      Great minds do indeed think alike. I keep looking at the SHO, and wondering what it would take to transplant its fun bits into its Freestyle / TaurusX siblings (of which I own a Freestyle… which is exceedingly, joyously practical, if a bit dull). I try not to acknowledge that Ford actually could, and SHOULD, have already done this for us. Because that will make my Frankenstein just that much more epic…

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      1. engineerd Avatar
        engineerd

        That would be awesome! I am actually a little excited to see what Ford replaces the Police Interceptors with. They said it would be built on the Taurus platform and most likely include the 3.5L Ecoboost. That sounds like a SHO, but they also alluded to AWD. AWD SHO? Hell yeah!

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    2. Tanshanomi Avatar
      Tanshanomi

      Oh, come on; you don't REALLY need 4-doors, do you?
      <img src="http://www.tanshanomi.com/temp/g8-2doorwagon.jpg"&gt;

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      1. engineerd Avatar
        engineerd

        I don't need them, she wants them. I pick my battles. If I get 4 doors, I can get whatever I want. If I can afford one, a nice used M3 sedan would be perfect.

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        1. Tanshanomi Avatar
          Tanshanomi

          Yea, substitute "automatic" and that's my situation.
          And "four seats," but that's another story.

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    3. SSurfer321 Avatar
      SSurfer321

      Hopefully Subaru will bring the Legacy Wagon GT back instead of that stupid Outback only edition. Same characteristics of AWD SHOwagon.

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    4. Maymar Avatar
      Maymar

      Any idea how close an Ecoboost'ed Flex is to a SHOwagon?

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      1. engineerd Avatar
        engineerd

        It should be pretty close since, IIRC, the Flex is built on the Taurus platform. However, the Flex is longer, heavier, and taller. So, while a Taurus will perform pretty nicely with the Ecoboost, the Flex will suffer from increased weight and drag. And a higher center of gravity.

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        1. coupeZ600 Avatar
          coupeZ600

          YOU want four doors, because YOU are going to have to re-install those beastly car-seats after you take them out each of the very few times you get a sitter and want to go out with another couple and go someplace cool where actual adults go and talk like normal people and there is no parking because only adults go there so you can't take two cars because that's wasteful so please honey take out the seats and be sure to put them back in all hung-over tomorrow morning so we can get everybody to day-care and thank you honey this is so exciting!
          Seriously, if I had to do it all over again, I'd get a minivan just so I could install those car-seats once and be done with it, and damn the mockery of my friends.

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          1. joshuman Avatar
            joshuman

            This is why I put all three car seats in one car and none in the other. If there are more than four of us, we can't fit in the non-car seat car. Two cars are needed unless my friend with the minivan is along. He has to take the kid seats out because he can carry three couples, thus saving the need for two cars and allowing me to drink.
            Four doors with kids is a necessity. So is the drink.

          2. coupeZ600 Avatar
            coupeZ600

            The really fun trick is before you have enough car-seats for all three cars, and you show up to get the kids in the car with no car-seats and your spouse didn't leave the seats out of her car because she assumed you were, for some strange reason, going to come all the way back home to get the other car that had the seats. Big laughs all around as you buckle them in and pray Child Protective Services hasn't put up a web-cam yet.

  6. Smells_Homeless Avatar
    Smells_Homeless

    Well, I had my deposit readied for the Pontiac ST. Jerkwads.
    Truly though, I'd probably settle for anything with A pillars I could see around.

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  7. joshuman Avatar
    joshuman

    I really wanted a four-door Golf GTI PD150 in 2002. This model was sold but not here in the United States. (I instead leased a two-door gas-fueled 1.8T.)
    I just spent 10 minutes searching through Jalopnik for a image of a concept car that looked a lot like a Datsun. I think Ford did the concept for the Tokyo Auto show in 2008 but I can't find it. Anyway, it was a smallish, squarish car that looked really nice. I guess it would be another vote for the car Scroggzilla, Alff, and Number Six are looking for.

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    1. Festiva_Movemnt Avatar
      Festiva_Movemnt

      Ford 02C1, from 2001-2002ish is what you are talking about, I believe.

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      1. joshuman Avatar
        joshuman

        Close but that was enough to spark the google engine. It is a Ford 021c (named for a Pantone color). Here is a link. http://www.conceptcar.co.uk/concept-cars/concept-… No powertrain installed in the concept so we can just imagine it is a turbo 4-cylinder and rear-wheel drive. Oh, and that color scheme could be made a bit less ice cream and a bit more 1970s GT MAN cool.

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      2. joshuman Avatar
        joshuman

        Close but that was enough to spark the google engine. It is a Ford 021c (named for a Pantone color). Here is a link. http://www.conceptcar.co.uk/concept-cars/concept-… No powertrain installed in the concept so we can just imagine it is a turbo 4-cylinder and rear-wheel drive. Oh, and that color scheme could be made a bit less ice cream and a bit more 1970s GT MAN cool.

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      3. joshuman Avatar
        joshuman

        Close but that was enough to spark the google engine. It is a Ford 021c (named for a Pantone color). Here is a link. http://www.conceptcar.co.uk/concept-cars/concept-… No powertrain installed in the concept so we can just imagine it is a turbo 4-cylinder and rear-wheel drive. Oh, and that color scheme could be made a bit less ice cream and a bit more 1970s GT MAN cool.

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  8. Deartháir Avatar
    Deartháir

    The Pontiac G8 version of the Bathurst-edition Commodore… or, VXR8, or whatever they call it. Now we gotta wait for them to start ALL over again with the Caprice version.

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  9. Age_of_Aerostar Avatar
    Age_of_Aerostar

    Isn't it near mandatory that we include this image for this article?
    <img src="http://www.comptropolis.com/article/images_1/homer-car.gif"&gt;
    I'll have to agree with the Ford Fusion SHO Wagon… until I can think of something myself.

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  10. Jeff Glucker Avatar
    Jeff Glucker

    I want the S8 with a manual trans.
    I want the RS6 Avant.
    I want the M5 Touring.
    I would like a new C-Class wagon (instead of the GLK).

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    1. Tomsk Avatar
      Tomsk

      Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes and with a 4-cylinder diesel/6-speed stick option.

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  11. JeepyJayhawk Avatar
    JeepyJayhawk

    Howabout a Gladiator? <img src=http://images.intellichoice.com/images/AutoShows/Big/jeep_gladiator_concept.jpg>

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    1. JeepyJayhawk Avatar
      JeepyJayhawk

      Or this… <img src=http://www.joechan.net/2007stuff/blazer.jpg>

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      1. JeepyJayhawk Avatar
        JeepyJayhawk

        or this <img src=http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh148/bootz42O/Taurus/Ford-Bronco_Concept_2004_800x600_wa.jpg>
        I'm done I swear!

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  12. FuzzyPlushroom Avatar
    FuzzyPlushroom

    Stripper. Six-cylinder. Falcon. Ute.
    Works like a light truck (with heavy-duty suspension added), drinks like a Taurus. It's an obvious answer.
    That's my foreign-market currently-built-vehicle answer. What prototype do I wish had succeeded? Well…
    <img src="http://www.vikeboe.com/Galleri/volvomuseum/images/101-0184_IMG.jpg"&gt;

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    1. Charles_Barrett Avatar
      Charles_Barrett

      Intriguing. Is that a Volvo Shooting Brake?

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      1. FuzzyPlushroom Avatar
        FuzzyPlushroom

        Of a sort. Davey G. wrote about it way back when, incidentally, which I just found by Googlin'. I'd definitely import one and pull the VIN off a rusted-out 242 for it… if only…

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      2. FuzzyPlushroom Avatar
        FuzzyPlushroom

        Of a sort. Davey G. wrote about it way back when, incidentally, which I just found by Googlin'. I'd definitely import one and pull the VIN off a rusted-out 242 for it… if only…

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    2. Tanshanomi Avatar
      Tanshanomi

      "That's hot."

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  13. PowerTryp Avatar
    PowerTryp

    That three wheel'd thing Tanshanomi designed, SHOgun Fiesta (3.5L ecoboost midmount? Awww yeah) or a Thunderbird redux that would compete against the Corvette like the original was designed to do.

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    1. Tanshanomi Avatar
      Tanshanomi

      You get all sorts of extra points for the reference. And for actually think it would be cool to have.
      (I briefly thought about posting the picture again, but I thought that would be gratuitous.)

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  14. Alff Avatar
    Alff

    A modernized Alfa Spider – the traditional Alfa lines, RWD, lovely multivalve twincam clad in aluminum castings, without persnickety carbs or mechanical FI nor mind-bending L-Jetronic, and a Getrag or other box with synchros that have a half life of something more than 5K miles. Note that this is NOT a Miata, which for all it's many wonderful attributes lacks the lines, the sweet tactile and aural traits and interior room of its Italian predecessor.

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  15. Eggwich Avatar
    Eggwich

    A Micro minivan coupe with two sliding doors and a liftgate (teh Ford Eggwich). And a blower sticking out of the hood. And a kegerator.

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    1. Maymar Avatar
      Maymar

      <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2492/4132271670_0f0796852f_o.jpg&quot; width="450" height="298" alt="eggwich" />
      Needless to say, I want to subscribe to your newsletter.

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      1. Eggwich Avatar
        Eggwich

        Wow, you are the King of Photoshop. How awesome is that thing?, and how awesome would any car be with a burger emblem on the hood? (A: Super awesome.)
        My car is actually pretty close to the same shade of white as the White Castle burger boxes, and I've been thinking of ways to make a sticker to work it onto my car. I only think about this when I'm really drunk and lonely, aka Friday nights.
        Once I figure out the newsletter subscription button, I'll be reading the Maymar Times every day. Much appreciated!

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  16. Paul Y. Avatar
    Paul Y.

    Last time I was car shopping, I'd have killed for one of those. They exist, but are as ephemeral as ghosts, it seems.

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  17. Tomsk Avatar
    Tomsk

    A lightweight, simple, affordable, rear-drive two door wagon/shooting brake that seats five, and is available with a turbodiesel four-pot and a manny tranny. Sort of a Vega Kammback/Jetta Sportwagen mashup (with a pinch of Honda reliability, please).
    Speaking of shooting brakes and Honda, I always thought a fixed-roof S2000 with an MGB GT/first-gen M Coupe-like roofline would have been the cat's pajamas.

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  18. Maymar Avatar
    Maymar

    Small RWD hatchback – about 2500lbs, sub $25,000. I'll take it from whoever's willing to give it to me. Hyundai, I'm looking in your general direction (whether they throw a hatch on a Genesis while taking off several hundred pounds, or give an Accent RWD). I just want something cheap and practical, but still fairly fun

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    1. ptmeyer84 Avatar
      ptmeyer84

      A modern version of this?
      <img src ="http://images.forum-auto.com/mesimages/666435/26brake_slidetwo.jpg&quot;

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      1. Tanshanomi Avatar
        Tanshanomi

        &lt;A HREF="http://[address]"&gt; [link text] &lt;/A&gt;

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      2. Deartháir Avatar
        Deartháir

        It's a standard HTML tag. 🙂 *img src="image url"* and replace the *'s with <>'s
        For huge images, please remember to add width="500" after the url quotes to keep it from mucking up our pages!

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        1. Age_of_Aerostar Avatar
          Age_of_Aerostar

          Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but lately whenever I try to make a post with an image, the whole post is deleted.
          Are there some rules that I'm not following? I'm using the same format, as you described above, that I've used in the past. I'll post the comment, it shows up properly on the page, but when I go back to it, it's gone.
          Suggestions?

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        2. coupeZ600 Avatar
          coupeZ600

          Since we're in class, is there a way to set it up so it just automatically expands all "replies"? It seems like if I click enough replies buttons, after a while it does it by itself, but if I navigate away when I come back I have to start all over. I don't want to miss anything.

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          1. Tim Odell Avatar
            Tim Odell

            Alas, no.
            We've requested that feature from Intense Debate, but it's sort of like requesting reliability from Alfa Romeo.

          2. Manic_King Avatar
            Manic_King

            Can't You/they change this basic parameter of "max. 25 comments" for expanded comments to something bigger, say 50 comments? Would help at least until better solution is created.

      3. Maymar Avatar
        Maymar

        I'd be down with that, or a Vega Cosworth (if it was any good), or a 2002 Touring, or an AE86, or an MGB GT, or whatever – like I said, I'm not picky.

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      4. ptmeyer84 Avatar
        ptmeyer84

        <img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/11/24/automobiles/26brake_slidetwo.jpg"&gt;

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  19. Age_of_Aerostar Avatar
    Age_of_Aerostar

    I don't think this post could be complete without this…….
    <img src="http://www.comptropolis.com/article/images_1/homer-car.gif"&gt;
    But I'll agree with the Fusion SHO wagon until I can think of something on my own.

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  20. Uncle_Bo Avatar
    Uncle_Bo

    I want this, dammit
    <img src="http://jalopnik.com/assets/resources/2008/03/Pontiac-G8-El-Camino-01.jpg"&gt;

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    JagEsquire

    The Dodge Duster
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