"Alfalfa" (alfalfa-romeo)
09/30/2017 at 01:30 • Filed to: None
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"Alfalfa" (alfalfa-romeo)
09/30/2017 at 01:30 • Filed to: None | 3
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Especially this one. And we all love to hate it. But it’s unashamedly different, a design that doesn’t really make any practical sense. And that’s a thing we normally like here on Oppo.
I’d rather take this one, though.
TheHondaBro
> Alfalfa
09/30/2017 at 01:36 |
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I will admit, the CrossCab has really grown on me, almost to the point where I can say that I love it. It’s just so fucking weird and pointless, but you have to appreciate the fact that it exists.
Birddog
> Alfalfa
09/30/2017 at 01:38 |
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Alfalfa
> TheHondaBro
09/30/2017 at 01:45 |
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I still don’t love it, but I can’t help but feel that that an enthusiast my age 20 years from now will love the weirdness, the same why that I love an AMC Pacer.
Svart Smart, traded in his Smart
> Alfalfa
09/30/2017 at 01:51 |
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OK, but it’s no Isuzu Vehicross.
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Alfalfa
> Svart Smart, traded in his Smart
09/30/2017 at 01:53 |
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But that’s just it. Nothing is an Isuzu VehiCROSS, just like nothing else is a Murano CrossCab.
Chuckles
> Alfalfa
09/30/2017 at 02:04 |
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The world needs more quirky vehicles. It’s at the point where manufacturers only make what sells best and aren’t willing to take chances. Bring back the Cross-cab, the Subaru Baja, and all the other weird ones.
Steve in Manhattan
> Alfalfa
09/30/2017 at 02:13 |
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That Evoque is horrible in all forms, and give me a sledgehammer and 15 minutes on the other one.
Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> Alfalfa
09/30/2017 at 07:51 |
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No, just no. We love different that’s practical. We don’t love different that’s stupid. Taking a mediocre CUV that already lacks cargo room and wasting more of that precious cargo area on a soft top assembly, while making it weirder/uglier than it already was is not Oppo in any way.
SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
> Alfalfa
09/30/2017 at 07:57 |
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Both are testament to the fact that car designers are rarely shot for their crimes.
HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
> Alfalfa
09/30/2017 at 09:13 |
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I bet it’ll be about a month before we see a Donked Evoke Cabriolet
FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
> Alfalfa
09/30/2017 at 09:15 |
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The way the hood shut line above the vent thingy on the Evoque doesn’t carry across to the door while the plastic bit does drives me nuts. I couldn’t live with it. Also based on Doug’s video of the one he rented with 11k miles, the build quality seems appalling.
Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner
> Alfalfa
09/30/2017 at 09:45 |
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I’d also take the evoque and holy crap what is that monstrosity in the first picture
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Alfalfa
> Eric @ opposite-lock.com
09/30/2017 at 10:57 |
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Maybe not to you, but I feel like many others love less practical for the sake of weird.
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Alfalfa
> Chuckles
09/30/2017 at 10:59 |
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The Baja has really grown on me. It’s become one of the few modern Subarus I would actually consider buying.
If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> Alfalfa
09/30/2017 at 11:29 |
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My beef with it is that it’s typically bought by the sorts of people who don’t give two shits about cars. That nullifies any quirkiness points it has going for it.
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Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> Alfalfa
09/30/2017 at 11:42 |
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Twingo love isn’t impractical love.
Niva love isn’t impractical love.
Miata love isn’t impractical love.
This is impractical, ugly, and has zero redeeming qualities. I do think the high-riser is the most interesting and unique one I’ve seen, but it still doesn’t check any boxes that an Oppo would love it for.
Remember that we drive/build fun cars. This car can never really be fun.
CB
> Eric @ opposite-lock.com
09/30/2017 at 18:59 |
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I thought the idea was about having fun with cars, and it doesn’t matter what car that is?
Nauraushaun
> Alfalfa
09/30/2017 at 20:04 |
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Even at oppo it’s hard to like something that’s shit. If it didn’t make practical sense but had some redeeming feature, maybe