Oppo Question of the Day

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 05/11/2020 at 16:54 • Filed to: Crime and Punishment

0

78

Earlier today, I !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! about that 5-year-old kid who stole his parent’s car to go buy himself a Lambo. Then, some guy rewarded him with a ride in a Lambo. An interesting conversation followed about rewards vs. punishments, but Manny05x !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! the best question:

If oppo was to punish the kid with giving him a ride in a horrible car, what car would it be?

So, Oppo, if you’d rather punish than reward this kid, what would it be?

Future next gen S2000 owner > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 16:59

2

Model A. All stock, mostly original . Half beaten to death and then some . Top down in winter.

Just Jeepin' > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 17:00

2

Worst car I ever drove was a Chevy Citation, my first.

ranwhenparked > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 17:00

5

1995 Plymouth Acclaim, final year of production, heavily de- contented and sold mostly to fleets. Not terrible competitive when new, and totally outclassed after 6 years. Any examples left today will likely be  rattletraps with blown out seat cushions, cracked up dashes, and oxidized paint. 

Poor_Sh > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 17:00

2

Scion TC. Because it almost looks sporty but then there's nothing redeeming about it at all. 

ttyymmnn > ranwhenparked 05/11/2020 at 17:02

0

It’s like the K Car that wouldn’t die. 

Cash Rewards > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 17:04

2

Nissan leaf. Boring commuter car. Nothing interesting about it to a 5 year old. Nothing like a Tesla for acceleration, just sweet sweet mpge

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 17:05

3

I think I’m lucky enough to have never ridden in a truly terrible car like what you are looking for. Initially I though maybe Hyundai Pony.

But I think the answer has to have no novelty while being supremely punishing. I really don’t know. One of the worst cars on my local craigslist is this old Nova.

https://athensga.craigslist.org/cto/d/woodstock-75-nova-fixer-upper/7121764482.html

Jb boin > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 17:05

5

ps: the engine is a 4 stroke Diesel inline 2, 500cc from Yanmar (5.4hp / 11lb-ft ) and obviously with a CVT transmission.

KnowsAboutCars > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 17:06

4

The worst Lambo kit car I could find. Not sure if it would work as a punishment though. On the other hand it could spoil Lambos for years for the kid but on the other hand even a sketchy kit car might be cool for a young kid.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 17:06

2

So the question is, what’s the least Lambo car there is? Easy:

Bonus points if you drop him off at school in it right as his usual bus is unloading.

Or is that considered child abuse ?

For Sweden > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 17:06

1

A first-generation diesel VW Golf

Nom De Plume > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 17:07

2

What does his least favorite grandma drive?

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 17:08

1

J-body Pontiac sunfire. I’m not totally evil, so one in average condition.

3/4 hubcaps missing, 1 broken window, passenger side door handle doesn’t work and a bag of meth under the seat.

Aremmes > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 17:09

2

I was gonna say Datsun B210 because my opinion on those is tainted by memories of G randpa’s ratty brown B210 that I swear must've had a dirt-to-steel ratio greater than 1:1, but then remembered that some of them were actually Not Bad®. Given that, how about a '76 Charger with a smog-choked 318 LA engine.

ttyymmnn > Just Jeepin' 05/11/2020 at 17:09

0

You said Citation, and I thought Celebrity. I spent a summer back in the late 80s working for a Chevy dealership. I worked in the leasing office, which was pretty cool, since we leased all sorts of cars, not just Chevys, and I got to drive some really awesome rides. Anyway, I was also responsible for cleaning the small fleet of rental cars we had, mostly Toyota Novas and Isuzu Spectrums. But we also had a Beretta and a Celebrity . I didn’t like much about either of them, but the V6 in the Celebrity had some serious giddy up. 

ttyymmnn > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 05/11/2020 at 17:10

0

Either punishing, or just soul-crushingly boring.

ttyymmnn > KnowsAboutCars 05/11/2020 at 17:11

0

Yeah, could backfire with a kid who had no idea what he was looking at.

ttyymmnn > Aremmes 05/11/2020 at 17:14

2

This one’s for sale:

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 17:14

1

I would guess a little of both.

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 17:16

3

Opposite of a Lambo. Doesn’t even have the decency to be unreliable. Just devoid.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 17:18

2

Bicycle

Maxima Speed > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 17:20

1

Drive a flaming Ferrari California str aight to hell.

Aremmes > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 17:21

0

Is that another 210 on a trailer in the background, or a quarter-scale model sitting sideways on an overextended spoiler?

CB > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 17:25

1

The back seat of a CVPI.

WilliamsSW > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 17:26

4

Coal rolling Chevette Diesel. 0-60 in 19 seconds.

You’re not only in a noisy,  clattering C hevette, you’ll be in it a long to to get where you’re going.  

ttyymmnn > Aremmes 05/11/2020 at 17:27

0

Forced perspective FTW.

ttyymmnn > CB 05/11/2020 at 17:27

0

Do you speak from experience?

ttyymmnn > WilliamsSW 05/11/2020 at 17:29

1

I’m sure you’ve seen this.

CB > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 17:29

1

It’s not roomy. Neither is the Taurus. And the driver rarely rolls down the window for you or lets you pick the radio station.

Jim Spanfeller > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 17:30

1

... I actually kinda want that...

JustAnotherG6 > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 17:30

3

I have a G6 we could punish him with.

ttyymmnn > Jim Spanfeller 05/11/2020 at 17:34

1

Me too. I like it. 

ttyymmnn > JustAnotherG6 05/11/2020 at 17:35

1

I’m surprised nobody has said Aztek.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 17:39

0

‘Properly tucked-in headliners’

What a revelation! :P

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > For Sweden 05/11/2020 at 17:46

1

Make it a diesel Vanagon and we might have a deal. No Westy, though - that actually might be interesting.

fhrblig > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 17:47

1

A yellow ‘79 Plymouth Horizon with a brown door. During the summer, no a/c, and the rear windows are broken. Oh yeah, and he has to ride in the middle of the back seat in between two large adults. And it’ll be a two-hour drive to someplace he doesn’t want to go to, like the Museum of Things You Aren’t Allowed To Touch.

fhrblig > Just Jeepin' 05/11/2020 at 17:49

0

My first car was the Pontiac version, the Phoenix. It was somehow even worse than a Citation.

Manny05x > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 17:50

1

Nissan Rogue, my father in law owns one i hate that thing with a passion.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 17:50

2

Why hasn’t anyone said Prius?

A few years back I was helping my dad find a plug-in hybrid and was surprised to find that despite having an electric motor the Prius was astonishingly slow by today’s standards. Hell, it is slow by 1984 standards.

But being a Prius the driver is likely to unintentionally cause an accident, probably out of sheer boredom, and the kid might actually find that to be entertaining...

ttyymmnn > Manny05x 05/11/2020 at 17:50

0

You inspired a great discussion.

fhrblig > Nom De Plume 05/11/2020 at 17:50

0

I think the answer to that question is always “Buick Skylark”.

ranwhenparked > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 17:51

1

I’ve always found the Chevette baffling as the output of a capitalist system, it always seemed to be more of a Soviet style design, the sort of car that would sell only because consumers had literally no other choice besides walking. Yet, GM somehow sold tons of them over more than a decade, as if Toyota, Honda, Mazda, Subaru,  Nissan/Datsun, etc. simply didn’t exist.  Yeah, the Japanese were usually pricier, but few things are as costly over the long term that the cheapest option. 

ttyymmnn > ranwhenparked 05/11/2020 at 17:53

0

I guess there were still people who only wanted to buy American? I had a friend back in the day whose parents bought him a manual Chevette. He drove the shit out of it. Not sure what ever happened to it. He probably wrecked it, knowing him. 

ranwhenparked > Just Jeepin' 05/11/2020 at 17:56

1

God, what an irredeemable shitpile the X-cars were. 50% sales drop after one year. More recalls than any model GM had ever built up to that point, and an NHTSA lawsuit over defective brakes and steering. Those models probably did more damage to GM than anything else they made, the fact that they sold so many of them made it worse. I wonder how many Baby Boomers had a Citation or Phoenix as their last ever domestic car, before moving on to a Camcord and never looking back ?

ranwhenparked > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 17:58

1

Yeah, I think flag waving was what sold them. I know my parents didn’t buy a foreign car until 1990, despite many bad experiences in a row with badly made/unreliable American cars, and they seemed to even act a little embarrassed /guilty about doing it. But, they kept that Subaru wagon 12 years, which was about 4x longer than any domestic they owned up to that point, except for a Ford pickup. 

My bird IS the word > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 18:04

0

4cyl chevy s10. Godawful truck.

Just Jeepin' > fhrblig 05/11/2020 at 18:05

1

My dad rolled his Mazda pickup before trading it in for the Citation; even with the damage from the accident, he always maintained the dealership  should have paid him instead of the other way around.

Just Jeepin' > ranwhenparked 05/11/2020 at 18:07

0

My Jeep is the first domestic vehicle I ever bought (excluding one brief flirtation with an old Continental as a spare vehicle since neither my wife nor I had a large car), and I’m sure the Citation played a role in that 25- year drought.

Thomas Donohue > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 18:17

2

Tell him he’s getting a ride in a Porsche!!!!

Then put him in the back seat of a 911.

fhrblig > Just Jeepin' 05/11/2020 at 18:17

1

I tried to warn my stepdad that it would be a piece of shit before he bought it for me, but I didn’t want to rock the boat too much because after all, they were buying me a car. He got mad at me for it, but later on he actually apologized to me and said I was right. He told me at the time he thought I was just being pissy because it wasn’t a Honda or Toyota, and I told him I never cared about that. For God’s sake, I was ready to accept an AMC Spirit AMX that we looked at that couldn’t even pass emissions! I have no idea where he got that idea from.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 18:18

1

zipfuel > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 19:04

1

Man those proportions look funny today

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 19:07

0

New Mazda CX-5. The harsh ride and lack of refinement of a sports car, with absolutely none of the excitement.

zipfuel > Jb boin 05/11/2020 at 19:10

0

I remember seeing something like one of those in Switzerland back in the day. I could not believe the loud ugly clattering diesel noise coming from this passing object. Especially given how slowly it was picking up speed.

Only Vespas... > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 19:13

2

A ride in the back seat of a f irst gen-two door Ford Maverick driven to a drive-in theater during lunch hour. Parked. What is he seeing? Just white space.  What is he hearing over the window mounted speaker?  Sammy Davis Jr. singing The Candy Man on a loop until sunset.  Later he is driven to the area of the municipal sewage treatment plant, disrobed, and left to his own resources to find his way home.

ttyymmnn > Only Vespas... 05/11/2020 at 19:15

0

This sounds specific enough to have really happened. Did this happen to you as a child?

ttyymmnn > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 05/11/2020 at 19:16

0

We rented one of those in CA last summer. I hated everything about it. 

Manny05x > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 19:42

1

Thank you, i am enjoying the comments.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 19:42

2

The Hoffman.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 05/11/2020 at 19:57

1

“Why hasn’t anyone said Prius?”

Because it’s a FANTASTIC CAR.

At least compared to older crap like Chevettes and Hyundai Ponies.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > Only Vespas... 05/11/2020 at 19:59

0

“A ride in the back seat of a first gen-two door Ford Maverick driven to a drive-in theater during lunch hour”

But then you can brag about being a MAVERICK!!!

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly 05/11/2020 at 20:05

3

He said make him miserable, not kill him.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > My bird IS the word 05/11/2020 at 20:08

0

Back seat of a 4 cylinder Ranger is much much worse and probably equally as slow and loud. Especially if you have a companion back there in the other "seat."

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > fhrblig 05/11/2020 at 20:09

0

This seems awfully specific. Did you once visit the Museum of things You Aren't Allowed to Touch (aka your aunt's house) in such a vehicle with said one brown door?

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 20:10

1

That’ s not exactly boring. Plasticy and disgustingly early 2000s, but not boring.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 20:13

1

Reminds me of this:

https://oppositelock.kinja.com/oppo-craigslist-challenge-ruthless-parenting-edition-1842810287

Any of them would do.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 20:13

1

That makes two of us, at least.

CB > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 23:31

0

Hey, just a question since I think you use Smugmug: how do you like it? I’m looking for a spot to do some photo hosting and maybe give people a chance to buy photos. Any input would be great!

ttyymmnn > CB 05/12/2020 at 00:04

0

I like it pretty well, though I really don’t do all that much with it. I pay about $75/yr, and it’s really more of a place for me to dump airplane and family pictures that few people look at. I’m no power user , and there are many more features that I don’t take advantage of. You can see my front page here , and the Aviation folder is open without a password. You’re welcome to poke around.

CB > ttyymmnn 05/12/2020 at 00:12

1

Awesome, thanks for letting me know!

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly 05/12/2020 at 00:25

0

I like the idea of a Prius, but low performance and a number of self-righteous owners turn me away. It would probably drive a small child to complete boredom, like it did to this adult. Yeah, it’s not as crappy as an old Pony or Chevette, but with crappiness comes character. I see the Prius as a good commuter vehicle but completely devoid of anything remotely interesting.

Only Vespas... > ttyymmnn 05/12/2020 at 01:26

1

One could only wish.   As a child [16] I worked at a drive-in, and like a child I still have a very active imagination.

pip bip - choose Corrour > ttyymmnn 05/12/2020 at 06:03

1

yugo?

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 05/12/2020 at 06:58

0

When you say new, how new?  We test drove a 2018 and rather liked it.  Didn’t end up buying it, but it was probably our second choice.  

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Snuze: Needs another Swede 05/12/2020 at 09:15

1

It was a 2019 I had as a loaner. At first it wasn’t so bad, but it wore down on me fast, especially after I hopped in my 4Runner and it was quieter inside (on mud terrains) . The awful road noise and stiff ride sucked. The Tiguan I had before it was better in every imaginable way. 

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 05/12/2020 at 09:23

0

I had a Tiguan as a rental once and rather enjoyed it. I thought the CX-5 was nice, fit and finish was great, but admittedly only test drove it for ~20 minutes. 

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Snuze: Needs another Swede 05/12/2020 at 09:56

1

The interior looks really nice until you really start feeling around. They’ve developed really flimsy soft touch material. 

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 05/12/2020 at 10:00

1

Guess we dodged a bullet, then.