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oyster  ·  3222 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 2, 2016

Is it always 2 door like that ? It looks like a 2 door crossover from the picture and the height of the people. If there's one thing I know about cars it's looks and that is one odd looking car.





user-inactivated  ·  3222 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Nah. It's a four door. The handles for the rear doors are at the top, rear corner. If you wanna see an odd SUV, I present the Nissan Murano Coupe Cabriolet (no, I don't know what they were thinking) and the Isuzu Vehicross (which I kind of want).

kleinbl00  ·  3222 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Vehicross was designed by the same guy who designed the Juke. They're terrible on the road; it handles like an Isuzu Amigo except you literally can't see anything out the back. In Japan they had a rear camera but rear cameras aren't DOT legal. As a consequence, it's side mirrors or bust.

user-inactivated  ·  3221 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Another really cool fact about the cars, per the Wikipedia page for them.

    Sales were intentionally limited, with only 5958 vehicles being produced between 1997 and 2001; 1805 were produced for the domestic Japanese market and the remaining 4,153 sold in the United States. Japanese sales were limited by the fact that the exterior width dimensions were not in compliance with Japanese Government dimension regulations, and the engine displacement obligated Japanese drivers for higher levels of annual road tax. The vehicle had a base price of $28,900.

It's crazy to think they had such a small production run. Even if they're a bit crappy to drive, that makes seeing one at a cruise in a pretty rare treat.

oyster  ·  3222 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The Murano looks like an oversized toy to me. I think it's because of my weirdly sized Barbie convertible I had as a child.

user-inactivated  ·  3222 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, when you take a mid-size SUV and turn it into a two door convertible, it's gonna look weird. :)

user-inactivated  ·  3222 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The Isuzu looks like it got stung by a bee and had a bad reaction.

user-inactivated  ·  3222 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Please, describe the Fiat Multipla to me.

user-inactivated  ·  3222 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The Fiat Multipla must be the long-term effects of Fiat's affirmative action program for the visually impaired. Though their hearts are in the right place, the good people of Fiat seem to be too heartbroken to tell the man that his work is absolutely appalling to the common senses, and instead have rushed the car into production. The Multipla looks like an aborted fetus glued to another aborted fetus developed through a Deadpool-esque eugenics program.. This program, which obviously lost funding before reaching acceptable production capability, had only learned how to develop children you could see through, and ended up as Fiat's main glass supplier.

user-inactivated  ·  3222 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Man. If I had any graphics art skills, I'd turn this entire quote into a poster with the Multipla dead center.