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You need to be "of a certain age" to remember some of these.
Absolutely. When I was in high school, in the late 60s (the Age of Muscle-Cars), the Metropolitan was the butt of jokes....as were the three-cylinder/two-stroke Saabs and several other subcompacts.
BTW, the auto-press called the Metropolitan and a couple of other 1950s Hudson/Nash products "Bathtub" styling", because the way the body shells covered the wheels reminded one of an upside-down bathtub.
Never saw that thing before. Ice cream cone paint job.
Two-tone (and even three-tone) paint jobs, sometimes with pastel-colors, were popular in the 1950s. Unlike today, Pink and Lavender were also popular shades, particularly with females.
See the MM Write-up I did on the 1956 Dodge LaFemme.
Excellent write-up I somehow missed it. Like you said if something like this was made today it would trigger so many people. I love bench seats.
Thanks. Since the supply of new vehicles became restricted with the pandemic and parts-shortages, I've been (mostly) writing up retro vehicles.
Front bench seats, BTW, may start a comeback on EVs. In ICE vehicles, if you can find them at all anymore, they are pretty much confined to a very few full-size pickups and SUVs.
Feeling blue?!? cheer up and and smiles!
Saw this today.
What am I?
3rd-Generation Toyota Tacoma Double-Cab. (obviously with the TRD package).
That's one of my favorite shades of Blue....always liked it, since it was introduced on the early-90s Mazda Miata as "Mariner" Blue", if I recall the name correctly.
3rd-Generation Toyota Tacoma Double-Cab. (obviously with the TRD package).
That's one of my favorite shades of Blue....always liked it, since it was introduced on the early-90s Mazda Miata as "Mariner" Blue", if if recall the name correctly.
That's it!
I really like that blue paint too.
Was hoping the paint job and the wheels and trim packakage would throw some people off but ya'll still got it.
3rd-Generation Toyota Tacoma Double-Cab. (obviously with the TRD package).
That's one of my favorite shades of Blue....always liked it, since it was introduced on the early-90s Mazda Miata as "Mariner" Blue", if I recall the name correctly.
Excellent write-up I somehow missed it. Like you said if something like this was made today it would trigger so many people. I love bench seats.
I get your point, but I'm not sure anyone being "triggered" would get much attention.
As cool as the concept is, it's likely the reason marketing toward women was short lived was the strategy eliminated half of the potential customers right out of the gate!
I was a big air-cooled VW fan, so I was interested in the "new bug" when it was first announced (like I am now interested in the electric VW bus). However, when the new bug was hitting show rooms and first being reviewed, it was clear from the write-ups and pictures in the car mags that VW was targeting women with the design. This turned my interest off, and likely did the same for most other men. The model had limited success before being dropped, but one has to wonder how much better it could have done had it been more gender neutral.
I was a big air-cooled VW fan, so I was interested in the "new bug" when it was first announced (like I am now interested in the electric VW bus). However, when the new bug was hitting show rooms and first being reviewed, it was clear from the write-ups and pictures in the car mags that VW was targeting women with the design. This turned my interest off, and likely did the same for most other men. The model had limited success before being dropped, but one has to wonder how much better it could have done had it been more gender neutral.
Um, the New Beetle was sold for twenty-two years before being dropped. For roughly the first half of it's run, it outsold the Golf it was based on by 2:1 on average. It wasn't until the last 5 years of its life that the Golf significantly outsold the New Beetle.
This is an interesting definition of "limited success". To me, it seems like VW did a pretty good job of hitting its target with a niche vehicle.
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