Hooniverse Asks: What Car or Truck are You Just Tired of Seeing on the Road?

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How many Teslas have you seen on the road? If you live in the L.A. area like I do then it’s a multiple times a day experience. I mean it’s like you can’t swing a dead cat but hit one of the electric wunderkinds out here. I can tell you, they’re starting to get so ubiquitous that their constant presence is also beginning to become kind of annoying.
Some cars are so rare that a sighting is almost an event. I saw a nice arrest-me red Alfa Bertone GTV the other morning and it really made my day. That was of course among all the Camrys, Accords, Focuses and other whatnot that seem to clog the roads and all the senses. If I don’t see another F150 on the freeway, it’ll be too soon.
How about you, is there a particular make or model that you are so done with that you simply try and block them out, or worse, wish their unimaginative owners bad tidings? Is there a car or truck that you’re just completely tired of seeing on the road?
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74 responses to “Hooniverse Asks: What Car or Truck are You Just Tired of Seeing on the Road?”

  1. Sjalabais Avatar
    Sjalabais

    http://www.bmw.com/_common/shared/newvehicles/x/x5/2013/showroom/start.jpg
    I never really liked the X5. Most owners put on way too wide tires, too, making the car look like a fat man with a depression. The kind that used to be good at sports, but isn’t anymore, and wouldn’t do anything about it but wearing a sweat suit.

    1. quattrovalvole Avatar
      quattrovalvole

      I find the X6 way more offensive than the X5. At least the X5 is spacious, so I can see someone buying that for the space and the driving position. Also, 70% of X6 drivers I encountered have been jerks on the road, it’s like they have to drive aggressively to prove something.
      http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/2008-2010_BMW_X6_(E71)_xDrive35d_wagon_(2011-11-04).jpg

      1. Sjalabais Avatar
        Sjalabais

        Oh, the X6 is a provocation from the drawing board to the junk yard. Thankfully, I just don’t see too many of them…
        /bitter guy comment

      2. Tanshanomi Avatar

        True Confessions: The X6M is where my brain goes when I am feeling the most self-indulgent and anti-social. Part of me loves to fantasize about the pure hedonism of wasting 100 grand on an inefficient, tortured monument to mankind’s hubrisic impulse to extend his middle finger at the laws of physics. And that fills me with self-loathing. It’s like the automotive equivalent of going to one of those strip clubs that bills itself as a “gentleman’s club” — making it expensive and giving it an upscale brand can’t make it respectable because at it’s core, it’s still so base and degrading that there’s no positive way to spin it.

        1. Sjalabais Avatar
          Sjalabais

          Make this a sticker with black-on-white text and a black edge. A popular movement will plaster X6’s instantly.
          Well said!

  2. P161911 Avatar
    P161911

    Even though I just bough/leased one, I am tired of seeing these things. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/2011_Nissan_Leaf_SL_–_10-28-2011.jpg
    I have a feeling they will be virtually extinct around here in about 2-3 years though when all the leases are up. The $5000 state tax credit goes away June 30th and gets replaced with a $200/year EV tax. they might all get shipped to Colorado at the end of the lease, since Colorado offers a tax break on used EVs.

  3. Kiefmo Avatar
    Kiefmo

    80s-00s GM W-bodies. They’re like cockroaches!
    Despite being half-rusted, half-running, with quarter-assed maintenance, and being generally beaten like a rented mule, they just won’t die.

    1. P161911 Avatar
      P161911

      “A Chevy will run poorly longer than most cars will run”

      1. PotbellyJoe★★★★★ Avatar
        PotbellyJoe★★★★★

        That’s hard to push as a value statement though, haha.

    2. tonyola Avatar
      tonyola

      Same is true of the H-bodied Oldsmobile 88 and Buick LeSabre. The bad ones have been junked long ago but the survivors (which are still fairly numerous) will probably run forever no matter how much they deteriorate.

      1. Kiefmo Avatar
        Kiefmo

        True. This could be a fully blanket statement about full-size GM cars in general, but I don’t hate the G-body and B-body cars — I actually like seeing those still on the road.

  4. PotbellyJoe★★★★★ Avatar
    PotbellyJoe★★★★★

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/2011_Honda_Odyssey_Touring_Elite_–_04-18-2011.jpg
    I can only speak for the East Coast, but out here, this is the “I can’t think for myself” mobile
    It’s a good car, don’t get me wrong, but the majority of its sales are to people who know nothing of cars based on advice they received from people who know nothing about cars after seeing the school parking lot full of them.
    It doesn’t help that 90% of the Odysseys I see are piloted by parents who just picked up their kids without hanging up their cell phone and are now gabbing on it as they drive through a parking lot full of other people’s children. Forget for the moment that for the past 5 years they have had Bluetooth standard on all models, so there is no reason, in a state that requires hands-free driving and holds it as a primary offence, to be holding a phone while operating a vehicle full of your kids while in a parking lot full of kids and parents.
    I also have been nearly hit by more of these than any other model of car while riding my bike. Probably for the same reason that they are trying to run over my kids.
    It’s not personal though.

    1. Brendan A. MacWade Avatar
      Brendan A. MacWade

      This this this.

    2. Kiefmo Avatar
      Kiefmo

      ::rolls up sleeves::
      You wanna take this outside?
      I have too many f***ing hours into working on that g-dforsaken 150k-mile minivan so that it doesn’t shake and rattle like the beater it so badly wants to be, and the wife, who never owned a car with over 100k miles before this, will not insist we replace it because I want it to be the last minivan we have to buy before we can move on to something that doesn’t accommodate 3 car seats with such ease.
      To keep this thing driving as close to new as possible, I’ve had to replace all four struts, tie rods, ball joints, upper strut mounts, sway end links, and all five engine/transmission mounts. AND THERE’S STILL A FREAKING CLUNK COMING FROM G-D KNOWS WHERE!

      1. PotbellyJoe★★★★★ Avatar
        PotbellyJoe★★★★★

        My issue with the Honda Odysseys has mostly to do with late-model, leased or recently bought. It’s the crowd that owns them and this just happens to be the car they are buying.
        Keeping an older one on the road, good for you.
        In reality, I think the car is actually a decent car. I though Dave Matthews Band had some good songs too. I just couldn’t get myself to buy either because I didn’t want to be associated with the other fans/owners.

        1. Kiefmo Avatar
          Kiefmo

          The W126 proves our souls are intact, despite owning this 10-yo appliance.

      2. Guest Avatar
        Guest

        Oh, you think yours is bad? Try living on gravel. With the aluminum underbody, and front wheel drive, and power doors, and 300k-km on the odometer, that thing is an abuse to the ears, despite added steel plates, mud flaps, and rubber hose to protect the shocks.

        1. Kiefmo Avatar
          Kiefmo

          Aluminum underbody? I thought the whole body was steel.
          Anyway, I’ve also had to replace the passenger-side sliding door upper roller mount, which just wore out its nylon bushings from repeated use.
          Kansas City roads can be pretty punishing. Potholes seem to pop up overnight, so you don’t always realize they’re there until the impacted wheel notifies you with a painful thunk. Makes me grateful for small 16″ wheels with plenty of rubber sidewall to absorb the impact, even if it means the brakes are underspecced and need turning/replacement far too often.

          1. Guest Avatar
            Guest

            I think it’s aluminum. That’s the reason my dad gives, anyway, for why the gravel is eating away. Shop told us that won’t replace the shocks again, since the mounts are eaten away. And the doors are a major problem.

      3. quattrovalvole Avatar
        quattrovalvole

        I don’t see the whole transmission on your list of things that went wrong. It could’ve been worse, I guess

        1. Kiefmo Avatar
          Kiefmo

          They’d sorted it out by 2005. It isn’t perfect, but with regular fluid changes it should last as long as the engine, at least.

      4. Alff Avatar
        Alff

        Dude, bite the bullet and get another one when the time comes. Minivans aren’t just for car seats. Ours have carried our same size family from coast to coast with the kids well into their teens. They’re not stylish but man, they’re tough to beat for economical comfort and space.

        1. Kiefmo Avatar
          Kiefmo

          Yes, this is true — I have used the 1500+ payload (and beyond) with all seats out multiple times, and it is a fantastic road trip machine, but see my comment to our friend Tanshanomi. We’re looking for off-roading ability in our next family hauler.

      5. Frank T. Cat Avatar
        Frank T. Cat

        …Have you checked the swaybar mounting bushings? My mom’s 2004 CR-V clunked relentlessly, and it turned out the rear swaybar bushings had maybe 2-3mm of play in them. New bushings made the clunk go away.

        1. Kiefmo Avatar
          Kiefmo

          When the sway end links were replaced, I inspected the bushings. The rubber seemed to still be good, but it probably could stand to be replaced.
          I suspect the LCAs as the source of the clunk, as their rubber bushings appear shot, but I can’t get the wife (budget manager) to approve that expense yet. After the racket drives her sufficiently crazy, that will probably change.

    3. mzszsm Avatar
      mzszsm

      I too almost got run over by one of these. Driver was holding a cellphone too. I agree that they are great vans, just some of the current drivers can be really oblivious.

  5. tonyola Avatar
    tonyola

    BMW 3-series. Here in Miami, they’re almost as common as Civics. Given how the majority of them are purchased, BMW should change its slogan to “the ultimate leasing machine”.

    1. Cameron Vanderhorst Avatar
      Cameron Vanderhorst

      I’m convinced that BMW is skating on the reputation of the great cars they once built, before realizing that they need only last until the end of the end of the lease term.

      1. tonyola Avatar
        tonyola

        It’s no surprise that the resale values of these cars drop when the four years of free maintenance runs out.

    2. Zedrick99 Avatar
      Zedrick99

      I agree completely. I also feel like they’ve become the Camry for people that think they’re too good for a Camry.

      1. Cameron Vanderhorst Avatar
        Cameron Vanderhorst

        At least the Camry has working cupholders.

  6. engineerd Avatar
    engineerd

    The drivers are a menace. They are always in the way. They drive slow in the left lane. Am I talking about a Prius?
    https://cbsdetroit.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/56004349.jpg
    Nope.

    1. Kiefmo Avatar
      Kiefmo

      When the W126 is down for days this summer while I install an A/C system, I am going to greatly appreciate the local Gillig fleet.

      1. Alff Avatar
        Alff

        Good luck with that – our area isn’t real public transit friendly. My commute would require four transfers and three hours each way.

        1. Kiefmo Avatar
          Kiefmo

          Luckily, I can get on a bus 1 block from my house and get off that same bus 1 block from work. When I only had the motorcycle for transportation, I was known to do this on snow days when my bosses were pigheaded about physical presence in the office, despite the fact that we all have the connectivity to work from home.

      2. mzszsm Avatar
        mzszsm

        I made a swamp cooler from an old cooler, some chicken wire, and 12V fans. So here’s a big advice, don’t put the holes in the side of the cooler. As the ice melts, water sloshes out of the sides in the turns. I have a 12V clip on fan now, boy does it help.

        1. Kiefmo Avatar
          Kiefmo

          It’s got most of what it needs, save a compressor. It might need a bunch of other parts that expose themselves as bad once the compressor is installed and the system is pressurized, though.

    2. tonyola Avatar
      tonyola

      When he retired from the US Forest Service, my oldest brother got himself a CDL and applied for a job as a driver for the Minneapolis Metro Transit system. He was rejected because his driving wasn’t aggressive enough – he was too cautious.

    1. Kiefmo Avatar
      Kiefmo

      I’m fine with there being plenty of them around, though. It’s on our list of vehicles to replace the family van when we finally decide to let it go. The more of them there are, the better the selection.
      This plan includes functional off-roadability improvements, such as a mild suspension lift, because we would like to start backcountry camping again when our younguns are a bit older.

    2. Citric Avatar
      Citric

      Where I live, they’re pretty much only driven by cops, especially white ones. So when I was on a road trip in the US I was constantly double checking to make sure I wasn’t doing anything illegal because my first instinct on seeing a white Tahoe is “that’s police.” Then I’d notice no police lights. I hate that civilians actually buy them down there.

      1. tonyola Avatar
        tonyola

        The US Department of Homeland Security seems to love these Tahoes, and they’re a fairly common sight here in South Florida. They make the local “undocumented” people here nervous.

    3. joshuman Avatar
      joshuman

      Our Suburban is nearly this exact model. As the family workhorse, it hauls as many kids or sheets of plywood as I want to deal with.

  7. Jason Mehrvarz Avatar
    Jason Mehrvarz

    Any Prius by a huge margin!

    1. PotbellyJoe★★★★★ Avatar
      PotbellyJoe★★★★★

      One thing about Prius drivers, at least they’re predictable.

  8. GTXcellent Avatar
    GTXcellent

    This one – it may be an inevitable fate for everyone, but it doesn’t make it any less sad when it happens.
    http://linux.hearse.com/sales/new/images/landau_coach/my2006_landau_silver_002.jpg

    1. hearsetrax Avatar
      hearsetrax

      grow up ya putz …… thar just XL station wagons

  9. Bryce Womeldurf Avatar

    Easily the Toyota Camry. I’m not going to say it’s all of them, but many of them here in Florida are bought by people who should just not be driving. Too often they’re driven by timid drivers or people who just never bothered to learn the rules of the road, and they’re everywhere. It doesn’t help that everything here is spread out and public transportation is very much lacking. So unfortunately for the general population, it’s a choice of driving to get anywhere or getting heat stroke trying to walk.

    1. Kiefmo Avatar
      Kiefmo

      I think it’s safe to say you just described most Camry drivers, a’yup.

    2. mzszsm Avatar
      mzszsm

      It’s not all of them, but so often if I am behind a slow and poorly driven car it is a Corolla or Camry. That said a late ’90s Corolla headed back to NJ was my pace car in PA last weekend. I’ve also noticed a small bias that Corolla S tend to be the worst of the lot, which I think is funny.

      1. Citric Avatar
        Citric

        There was a silver Corolla in my town who left for work the same time I did and braked on roundabouts. I set about trying to train them by honking every time they tried to brake, I think I mostly succeeded before I moved.

  10. Guest Avatar
    Guest

    I live in Alberta, where there are so many lifted, murdered Crewcab Dodges, that you would think they came that way from the factory. Why would you customize your truck to look like everybody else’s?

    1. GTXcellent Avatar
      GTXcellent

      * Murdered out crew cab HD Rams not limited to the land of the Flames, Oilers, Stampede and Eskimos

      1. Guest Avatar
        Guest

        Yes, but do they outsell Civics in your area?

        *not based on actual numbers, just observations.

        1. GTXcellent Avatar
          GTXcellent

          The nearest Honda dealer is 2 hours away – so yep, they outsell Civics (and Accords, and Camrys and pretty much every other vehicle that isn’t named Silverado or F series).
          And as you pointed out, why are they always murdered out? Personal opinion, but nothing looks worse than an all black vehicle covered in salt spray or gravel dust – and here at least, your vehicle will always be covered in salt spray or dust.

          1. Guest Avatar
            Guest

            That’s my beef too. You’d think eventually that fad would wear off, and people would pick some other colours. Dodge, and Ford both sell a beautiful shade of brown, but no, everybody has to have black.

      2. mve Avatar
        mve

        True story. The latest diesel fad seems to be getting as much black smoke out of the tailpipe between red lights as physically possible. Not a day goes that I don’t see a small foundry worth of nasty smoke when the light turns green.
        Since all these guys do is race around city streets and practice burnouts, why not just get a Camaro like every other redneck has been doing since 1967?

  11. Citric Avatar
    Citric

    Mostly sick of trying to see around them on the road, though they also come with bad parking and loud exhaust that owners choose to showcase at 2 a.m.
    http://bds-suspension.com/images-prod/apps/dodge/print/dodge_3500_13s_6in.jpg?utm_source=pr&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=bdsPR

  12. 0A5599 Avatar
    0A5599

    I used to work at an office that had two freeway on ramps about the same distance away, and I could go north and then east to get to one, or east and then north to get to the other. One of them regularly had some sort of smog checking van stationed alongside the acceleration path. My cars run clean, but you never know when something might glitch. Whenever I thought the van was working, I would take the other route.

  13. Jofes2 Avatar
    Jofes2

    This. It just looks so grumpy and boring and it’s in absolutely every parking lot over here.
    No one who’s been interested in cars has ever had one.

  14. Manic_King Avatar
    Manic_King

    Toyota Avensis…..it’s…a car- like appliance.
    http://img.turbo.fr/028C01EA01509352-photo-toyota-avensis-avensis-mc-126-d-4d.jpg

  15. Tamerlane's Thoughts Avatar
    Tamerlane’s Thoughts

    Incidentally, in the white high rise tower in the background, there is a Testarossa owned by an eccentric Japanese dude in the underground lot.

  16. Alff Avatar
    Alff

    My wife’s Grand Caravan. Man, I’m tired of that thing.

  17. Krautwursten Avatar
    Krautwursten

    Previously the chariot of choice for millions of middle class everymen with wives and kids, this dreadfully boring family wagon has somehow since become desirable for 20 year old undesirables.

    1. Frank T. Cat Avatar
      Frank T. Cat

      By extension, literally every VW TDI. ESPECIALLY Jettas.

  18. Jaap Avatar
    Jaap

    Tucson proved to be rather popular round here. My neighbours had one. I viewed it hundreds of times while smoking a cigarette. And I failed to find more than one atractive detail. This car is very much an ill proportioned unremarkable wanna be.

    1. Krautwursten Avatar
      Krautwursten

      And then a thousand Tucsons get strapped in front of a thousand camper trailers because riding this high obviously means it’ll do a better job than an equally tow rated Golf.

  19. XRSevin Avatar
    XRSevin

    If my wife was still a private investigator, this would be the perfect vehicle for a stakeout. Instead it’s the perfect vehicle to lose in a parking lot.

  20. Scoff Law Avatar
    Scoff Law

    Any late model BMW sedan in the center or left lane going 10 under the limit… Seems to be the thing to do here in Oklahoma.

  21. Darren McLellan Avatar
    Darren McLellan

    http://2016carnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016-Hummer-H2-concept-600×390.jpg
    We have an asshat in town with a lifted H2. Cause the ‘normal’ H2 doesn’t say ” I’m a douche” enough.

    1. Krautwursten Avatar
      Krautwursten

      The normal H2 does very much say that. My town’s only H2 is bright yellow and owned by the man that runs all local gambling places and I think a brothel or two. Q.E.D.

  22. Brendan Smith Avatar
    Brendan Smith

    How appropriate that the picture is my commute (return home is the right side of photo…Berkeley, CA…enter 80 West at Gilman or University or follow the Frontage road to Powell…Highway 24 from there to Walnut Creek, CA). On the way home this evening, witnessed two Teslas racing through sparse traffic from Rockridge to Walnut Creek. They were taunting each other and playing all sorts of acceleration and weaving games. As I commute with my girlfriend, she tossed a derisive snort and I replied with, “best example of a first world problem…”.
    I am not tired of any specific vehicle, I am tired of the conspicuous consumption that is so prevalent in the SF Bay Area. Four wheel pissing contests. Hey, I have been guilty in some aspects. Used to drive a Porsche Cayenne GTS (with a 6 speed manual!) until a severe accident left it totaled last November. Pretty sure I was seen as a driver of a generic gloating machine, regardless of how unique I knew a manual transmission Cayenne is to this world. I was another show off in a vehicle many wish would go away.
    After the accident, I decided to keep things simple and drive my 1984 Porsche 928S daily. This has created the opposite effect. People are stoked to see the 928. I sometimes hope it distracts people and they don’t even see the expensive cars that have become so ubiquitous.

    1. hearsetrax Avatar
      hearsetrax

      ROFL !!!

  23. stigshift Avatar
    stigshift

    The one in front of me.