I love fins on cars. I'm still mad that my dad sold his '57 Chevy, despite the fact that he did so a decade or so before I was born.
Very, very Classic Batmobile. Want. Sort of.
Now that Lizardbreath is on hiatus, we can finally boy it up around here.
Alameida and Becks, bloggers-with-chopped-liver.
You were a big Jetsons fan, weren't you, ogged?
What's the fuel efficiency? Pretty crappy, I'm imagining.
What's the fuel efficiency?
Girls. Actually, it's remarkably good for a sports car.
Equipped with an automatic transmission, the Corvette achieves 18/26 mpg (city/highway), and the manual transmission is slightly better at 18/28.
Probably not so bad, the Corvette actually gets fairly good gas mileage. 6th gear is TALL, so you cruise down the freeway at 1800 rpm and a decent throttle opening.
And that car is pretty. Agree with the Want. Sort of.
Alameida and Becks, bloggers-with-chopped-liver.
I didn't think that you'd subscribe to the notion that someone's sex determines whether one can boy it up around them. When you go hiatus, you whatever you are, we'll really boy it up.
Interesting that the response is lukewarm. I like, but don't really covet most cars, but this one I totally covet. They did such a good job with the classic styling that still looks totally contemporary.
You know, the first car I ever drove was a Chevrolet Chevette. It got excellent gas mileage.
9: "really boy it up" s/b "wander about aimlessly for a time and finally lie down on the ground and wait for death to overtake us"
10: Oh, for what it is, the car kicks ass. It, like this chopper, is an excellent demonstration of the difference between that which is good and that which I like.
(Yes, that is a board racer, with no front brake, no suspension, and the infamous Proton V5 MotoGP motor, which was underpowered and had a tendency to blow up, but "underpowered" in MotoGP means it turned out only a little over 200 hp.)
The car is a little like someone took my favourite food and poured it over my favourite dessert... and the result isn't edible.
It's not that I don't lust for it. I do lust for it. I just wouldn't want to pony up the insurance premium on it.
11: My oldest sister had a Chevette and it was a piece of bad ass (ANIAGW) mounted on four wobbly wheels.
That bike has "death wish" written all over it.
Okay, but I'd rather have one of these.
ANIAGW?
We had some good times in our Chevette. It had no heat, no A/C, no defrost, no suspension, no accleration, and no radio. We spent a lot of time huddled under blankets with the windows open, avoiding the freeway, and singing.
Written all over it, in garish neon, and with big arrows pointing appropriately. Biohazard's bike looks pretty sweet, in the new-old-Triumph and new-old-Ducati kind of way. Is that the RC-51 motor?
It's an RC-51 but I notice the Vincent site hasn't anything past 2004. it's probably another still-birth.
I didn't think that you'd subscribe to the notion that someone's sex determines whether one can boy it up around them.
I am pwned.
(Correct usage alert!!!!)
Interesting that the response is lukewarm.
Maybe because photos of such cars are supposed to include barely-clad women lying across the hood?
Until then, I just can't take this car seriously.
And anyway, didn't Johnny Cash already write a song about this car?
you whatever you are
Sincere thanks, ogged, for holding the fig leaf over my open secret.
I thought it was an extruded secret?
This is not a dispute I can personally adjudicate.
I adjudicated too much as a kid.
ANIAGW?
Well, you know, I didn't want you to think I was saying it was bad ass, thus good, except for the wheels. I wanted you to know it was ass of the unpleasant variety. Mona's car's heater ran all the time, even after the fans had been unplugged and the vents closed. If she sang in it then her song was a prayer that someone else would hit it with their own car and total it so that she could collect some loose change from the insurance company before starting over.
Crap. In my haste, I botched the allusion.
Johnny Cash? I think the Reverend Horton Heat might have... the car is indeed big and blue.
My Grandad had a diesel Chevette. That thing was indestructible.
This is one of those posts that makes me think I'm culturally female.
13: Did you get to MotoGP at Laguna last year? That bike was on display... it looked even better in person. (Or maybe that was just the heatstroke making me *think* it looked better in person.)
Of course I did. Turn 4 grandstands. Already have tickets (but no hotel) for this year. Two years ago was more exciting, but not as exciting as Ben Bostrom doing the double in 2001. And for amusement value nothing beats Xaus crashing twice on the warmup lap the year after (?).
Cool, though I think the stylin' body work is messed up by the bad color scheme. Also, the hubs don't fit the look.
Australians still love muscle/rally-style cars. While not quite the same thing as the one here -- and also not an actual you-can-drive-it-around car -- the Holden Efijy Concept is something I wouldn't mind being seen driving round town in.
36: Unlike the L.A. Time's motorcycle columnist Susan Carpenter.
Ah, I think the hubs are one of the nice modern touches. I've read that the Efijy has been a big hit at the auto shows. It does look cool.
Kier/an, the color scheme is teh awesome. Turquoise looks great with brown grass, and that car is only gonna be driven (properly) out west.
I like it (and agree that the hubs are nice), but I'm not 100% sure about the amount of sharp pointy bits on the front end. The back does a nice job of balancing the fins with the sleek modern lines; the front end looks, to me, kind of like they're trying a li'l too hard, ala those goddamn PT Cruisers (which aren't sharp and pointy, but are trying too hard). They coulda dumped the whatever-the-hell-that-is (extra lights?) on the hood.
Kier/an, the color scheme is teh awesome.
Nah, it is teh suxx0r. Of course by "brown grass" you mean "red desert," but that's OK. I will concede that living in Arizona makes one allergic to turquoise, but in this case really it's the bad match with the navy blue.
42: Yeah, yeah. Me and my big swinging cock.
44: I would agree that generally turquoise + navy is a bad match, but dude: it's a 50s-style boat car. Trying to be understated with it is not going to work.
Wow, the Efijy really does look cool. So low to the ground, though!
45.1 Should have been "Unfogged needs at least one straight guy around."
47: If you're the straight man, does that make Ogged the comic?
So glad someone caught that.
Until you start transmitting your humorous intent, ante jestum, to a trusted third party to hold in escrow, I will have to DISBELIEVE YOU.
Well, that was unexpected.
Have to agree with B here; SB is sexist.
52 to 53, except sincerely this time.
I'm not going to hold your hand for yet another Feminism 101 lesson, SB.
Because someone must: wot's wrong with bein' sexy?
I'm a feminist! I've seen heebie's ass!
22 and 33 are both correct. Ane the Holden EFIJY is ninety-nine distinct types of awesome.
57: SB is just trying to get in Nancy Pelosi's pants.
Am I the only one seeing a black and turquoise car?
60: No, it's hideous. I can't believe any other reaction. I am troubled that we needed an extra-national to point us back towards sanity. We invented the car culture, for gawd's sake.
It is a terrible color-scheme. I think you'd need at least a double-wide cock to even attempt to pull it off, and you'd still probably fail. But underneath the paint job, it is a great-looking car. In solid black, or cherry red... wow. I would love one.
OK, I looked at the pictures, and...huh? We're all supposed to want to be the teenage boy that some dipstick boomer wishes he'd been c. 1957? Do you get a free cheerleader with that?
While the boomers did, by and large, suck, and this car would no doubt be driven almost exclusively by assholes, that doesn't mean that the car itself isn't quite pretty.
While the boomers did, by and large, suck, and this car would no doubt be driven almost exclusively by assholes, that doesn't mean that the car itself isn't quite pretty.
Whattayamean "did"? Are we supposed to have died off now or something?
Also, I love freshwater beaches.
No, I just ignore the boomers in my life as much as possible.
That said, I have to go over to Ojai *again* tonight to take my aunt to her Shakespeare reading group. Which goes until freaking 9 pm. It's bad to resent being nice to the sick and elderly, but what a pain in the ass.
I was about to agree that it's possible to react to the car's aesthetics without reference to boomer bullshit while disagreeing on the aesthetics, but on second thought I don't even think that much is true. That's not the car you get when you sit down to design a pretty car, it's the car you get when you're on a massive phony-nostalgia binge.
Do you get a free cheerleader with that?
Yes, I think that's the idea. Or at least a discounted cheerleader.
It's bad to resent being nice to the sick and elderly
Full stop.
I hated boomer bullshit coming, passing and going. And boomers like me were mostly too young and too poor for the cars of that era, at least first time around. Dwight Macdonald wrote an interesting piece in the New Yorker in the fifties about how much youth culture was, even then, being consumed and financed by people who were older. The adds always showed teenagers in little deuce coupes but the car was owned by his older brother or uncle if not his dad, who probably did all the work too.
I thought for sure 73 was going to link to a cheerleader pic.
Hmm again. Somehow I'm still OK with the penis God gave me. It may not be all chromy and shiny, but we've been through good times and bad together and I guess I'm kind of fond of the little fucker.
Oh, that is pretty, ogged. Almost as pretty as Michael Scofield. Although I think it escaped from Cars rather than prison.
OK, bedtime - g'night and leave me something more interesting to read about than eggs and cars for the morning. Please.
70: The word you're looking for is "cheap".
77: Astonishing that I had to look for that word.
I thought for sure 73 was going to link to a cheerleader pic.
Knowing the sensibilities of key members of the Unfoggetariat, I deliberately searched around for a link depicting the vehicle in #73 without a half-naked woman draped over it.
79: Goddammit, why didn't you think about the other key members of the Unfoggedtariat? Insensitive bastiche.
73: Is that for real? It looks like it should have an anime chick draped over it.
Interesting that the response is lukewarm.
This place is full of America haters. That car is great.
It is for real, and you can buy one. Here is more info.
(Note that the second pic at that link features a horribly objectified bikini babe posing with the bike, if you're averse to that sort of thing.)
She looks like she's about ready to push the goddam bike into the pool, already.
I'm not really 'into' cars but a woman I know has an absolutely mint 60s MG -- nothing flash, it's a MG-C I think -- and I really want it.
bikini babe posing with the bike
Wait, there was a motorcycle in the second picture?
As per usual, I'm going to have to side with ogged and gswift on this one.
87: I don't think that color is as close to Carolina blue as you seem to think, Apo.
I'm neither here nor there on the color scheme; I like the car itself.
The car looks like the Batmobile, only less pretty.
You guys are on crack. That is an ugly-ass car.
