Last Call: I bet you’ve never seen a Chevy Sonic do a kickflip

Colby Buchanan

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My roommate has a Chevy Sonic that he likes to think is better than my Z. This morning I woke up to him sending me this video with a text reading, “can your Z do a kickflip? Didn’t think so.” While it’s hard to argue with this concrete logic, it sure was cool to watch Dyrdek complete the barrel roll.

I remember seeing Jaguar do this with the E-Pace when it first came out and it was impressive then too. And I’ll admit, it takes some pretty big balls to send it in something like this. So does this give the Sonic a little more cred?

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Colby Buchanan

Colby Buchanan

My name is Colby Buchanan and I love all things car-related all the way from rusted 240sx’s to McLaren Senna’s and of course I have a soft spot for American Muscle. You can spot me in my bone stock ’06 350z named MackenZ.

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13 responses to “Last Call: I bet you’ve never seen a Chevy Sonic do a kickflip”

  1. Wayne Moyer Avatar
    Wayne Moyer

    See this is why you use a Sonic Turbo instead. That way you could have done a turbo boost off of it and then really done some sick stuntz! https://media0.giphy.com/media/YRE2cKCVtqxHXaixZl/giphy.gif

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  2. 0A5599 Avatar
    0A5599

    I’ve seen an AMC Hornet do one, though.

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    1. Zentropy Avatar
      Zentropy

      Being a fan of both James Bond and American Motors as a kid, I remember that scene well. I remember that Hornet making a pretty cool J-turn, too. Terrible movie, though. Although I’ve watched all of the Roger Moore films, Sean Connery in my mind was the real James Bond. However, Daniel Craig– while not fitting my impression of the character– has made some entertaining movies as 007.

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      1. 0A5599 Avatar
        0A5599

        Sean Connery stopped being the real James Bond the minute he put on the Zardoz diaper.
        https://assets.considerable.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/02115928/zardoz-12.jpg

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        1. Zentropy Avatar
          Zentropy

          What in the hell is that??? I guess I’m thankful that my tidy little bubble of Connery exposure is largely limited to the suave 60s.

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  3. Sjalabais Avatar
    Sjalabais

    Somebody opened a can of random, neverending guitar riffs though…why can’t editors just take a step back and let original audio survive a little? Also amazing that the thing didn’t roll the other way in that landing-turn.

    We have been watching a fair bit of Korean drama in isolation. After that, I have a new theory for GM’s seemingly baffling decision to rename Daewoo to Chevrolet: It was for the South-Korean market, and that one only. Like West Germans, South Koreans seem to somewhat aspire to be “Mini-Americans”. In SK, the Chevrolet-name might have carried some weight, and the fact that the bowtie was glued to slightly shoddy micros and compacts didn’t seem as off there, as it did in Europe. Hence, it made sense in that market, even though it was a flat-hand-on-forehead-decision in the European market and observed afar from the US.

    https://i.ibb.co/DRGSgyx/Change-My-Mind.jpg

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    1. crank_case Avatar
      crank_case

      Medium quality rant, needs more vitriol, 7/10

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    2. Lokki Avatar
      Lokki

      Nah…. the whole Daewoo affair was both much simpler and much more complicated than that.

      The chairman of the Daewoo chaebol, Kim Woo Choong, essentially tried to run a Ponzi -scheme of a car company into the big time. He was pretty much running a Ponzi scheme in a LOT of industries, but let’s focus on cars. He never had any money, and never really made any money with Daewoo motors, but he sold everybody on the promise of Daewoo motors making money in the future. He started by essentially bribing his way into a 50/50 deal with GM which resulted in the infamous Daewoo Pontiac LeMans. He figured they’d teach him to build cars, which GM did in their own way. The LeMans was a terrible car and flopped but Daewoo was in the car business. In fact however the LeMans flopped so badly that GM sold their half of the venture to Daewoo, took their losses and walked away. Using more promises than cash Kim Woo Chong soon bought out FSO IN Poland using Polish government money to build a new factory (we had a big deal with General Motors! We know our stuff!) and as I recall did the same thing in the Ukraine with Ukrainian government money. I also believe there were others but I’m too lazy to look them up. In the U.S. Daewoo wanted to start selling their cars (which weren’t horrible cars, but weren’t great either) but couldn’t afford a dealer network. He hit on the plan of choosing College students to act as his informal salesmen – giving them a car to use as payment, and hoping the kids would force persuade all their friends and relatives to buy cars….it didn’t work, but it was cheap and worth a try. He eventually had to “spend” the money to start dealerships; if you brought a little of your own money and didn’t have a felony record involving serious violence -against women or children- you could get one. Many the former gas station became a Daewoo sales center.

      So by now you have a pretty good picture of Daewoo and the companies situation and practices. They were always promising everybody money, and they always owed everybody money, and not surprisingly that included their unionized workers. When the Ponzi scheme started collapsing as Ponzi schemes all eventually do, they owed their workers a LOT of money. As is the fashion in Korea the workers launched a huge and violent strike. Kim Woo Choong tried to quiet them with a promise that if they behaved GM was going to buy the business. And GM just might have too, but it got into the press that the workers (and then all the Daewoo suppliers too) were going to have all the money owed them by Daewoo -and it was as previously stated A LOT OF MONEY -paid by GM.

      Forewarned, GM decided to …wait. And wait. In fact they waited until the courts officially declared Daewoo bankrupt and officially out of business. AFTER Daewoo was officially dead and officially dead beyond doubt GM came in and bought all their factories and equipment – but as factories and equipment, not as the Daewoo Motor Company. They also allowed some former Daewoo employees to apply to work for the new company. However it was made very clear that the new Company was not and had never been Daewoo because if GM ever admitted that they might be potentially liable for debts incurred by that defunct company. Kim Woo Choong became a fugitive from justice, going into hiding in numerous countries, including Morocco, France, and the Sudan.

      So there not really so many psychological reasons for GM to never use the name Daewoo as there were plenty of legal and financial ones.

      And there you have it – and more than you ever wanted to know too.

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      1. Sjalabais Avatar
        Sjalabais

        Wow, okay, how did I miss that – or is this some kind of belated April fool’s? Disqus doesn’t load on Hooniverse for me today, so I only see this comment on the Disqus website. The whole naming story sounds like a legal legend*, why would anyone not assume they took over Daewoo just by avoiding the name? And my favourite part of the conglomerate, Uz-Daewoo, did produce GM cars with a Daewoo badge until 2015 anyway. Very entertaining twist, nonetheless, and I wasn’t even aware Daewoo did attempt to sell cars in the US.

        * Legend or, eh, Arcadia?:
        https://i.ibb.co/T0sd44N/images-daewoo-arcadia-1994-1.jpg

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  4. crank_case Avatar
    crank_case

    I’ve seen plenty of small hatchbacks do a kickflip, just not intentionally. Damn kids need to stop leaving their scooters in the road.

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    1. Zentropy Avatar
      Zentropy

      Truth. My neighbor’s kid left his Razor scooter behind my car one evening, and I didn’t spot it when I got in the next morning. As I was backing out of the driveway, I ran over it with the front wheel as I was turning, and it somehow got up above the tire, ripped the plastic inner fender away, and dented the fender itself. It was going to cost something like $2200 to repair, so I cable-tied the inner fender back in and have yet to pull the dent.

      The scooter was unharmed. Those things are indestructible.

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      1. crank_case Avatar
        crank_case

        Tell me about it, even the barbie one survive being flung carelessely into the nearest grassy area, cos I’ll be damned if I’m wasting time moving them neatly. Get of my lawn tarmaced driveway.

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      2. crank_case Avatar
        crank_case

        Tell me about it, even the barbie one survive being flung carelessely into the nearest grassy area, cos I’ll be damned if I’m wasting time moving them neatly. Get of my lawn tarmaced driveway.

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