It’s an ‘I get what the young people are doing and I’m part of it, but I will not be putting my mattress on the floor.’” “This was a car for guys that want a sports car, but don’t really want to be inconvenienced. “A GTO is for a guy that wants to tell the world, I will not be going quietly!” “This was the pony car of dreams in the ‘70s because of Barry Newman and Vanishing Point.” “As a car, it’s horrible, but it’s a nice living room with wheels.” S1, E9: “I Want Sandwiches, I Want Chicken” “The complete opposite other end of the American motor spectrum. “Another great square-jawed, bulldog British sports car.” S1, E8: “I Hear Downton Abbey Is Pretty Good …” “This is a car if you want to say, I really love British sports cars and dammit I will go down with that ship if I have to.” Sometimes, even Seinfeld gets sentimental. “Really, what is the point of a car like this? … It’s honestly just a ridiculous way of moving people from place to place.” The Ones Jerry Can Only Get So Excited About S8, E6: “What Kind of Human Animal Would Do This?” “Go to the beach! Go down to the water! Go up and down hills! Waste your time! Waste your life! Who cares? It’s California! Dune buggy! ‘60s! It’s just about having some fun.” Really? ‘World supremacy’? Is that good marketing?” “Cadillac marketed this model as, quote, ‘The new standard of the world in supremacy!’ Eh, it’s about 15 years after World War II. “They have a beautiful cloud-like ride, you just feel safe and secure.” 1983 Mercedes-Benz 300 Turbo Diesel Station Wagon I am obsessed with Italian scooters from the ‘50s and ‘60s.”ħ4. “What’s cool about this bus to me is that it was used as a service truck for a VW Porsche repair shop in Campbell, California.” “This car was very much the dream of many middle-class families in suburbia in the 1960s.” S9, E4: “At What Point Am I Out from Under?” The name of the scooter is ‘Sei Giorni,’ ‘six days.’” “They used to do six-day races, that’s what the ‘6’ is on the front. S11, E7: “My Wife Didn’t Know The Extent Of It” “A total disaster from initial concept to final execution … I love this car for three reasons: It doesn’t work, looks ridiculous and falls apart.” S3, E6: “The Over-Cheer” ( Not available on Netflix.) But I like things that exist just because they decided they want to exist.” LTD stands for ‘limited.’ You know what it’s limited to? How many of these damn things we can sell.” It’s big, it’s wasteful, it’s got stupid fake-wood paneling on the side, it’s an LTD. And compete it did, the Gremlin was even more horrible.” “The Gremlin was built to compete with the Chevrolet Vega and Ford Pinto, which were horrible cars. “You feel like you’re in a polished silver building that just got pushed off a cliff … Aziz likes to do his road gigs with a tour bus. S4, E4: “It’s Like Pushing a Building Off a Cliff” “It’s the automotive equivalent of a man who colors his eyebrows, wears shorts with a belt and tucks his shirt into the shorts.” These vehicles aren’t “bad” - they’re just more intended for nostalgia or comedic effect. Where would you put Patton Oswalt’s wet-dream DeLorean? What about George Wallace’s Strip-cruising Buick Riviera? Compare with our highly biased ranking below - Jerry’s most insightful commentary included. The only rule is that we’re only including the main vehicles, not the extraneous ones (like the various boats). We’re ranking these based on what we’d personally most like to own. Our criteria for the ranking, as you’ll see below, is entirely subjective.
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