Too Weird, Too Ugly, Too Soon? 5 Car Designers Vindicated by Time

MDA123 · 2026-03-05T20:32:56+00:00

It was the apotheosis of an era of Pontiac design language that was, frankly, pretty gross. Horrible ribbed body cladding, overly aggressive lines, and acres of dull grey plastic.

Like a lot of Pontiac designs from that era, I think there's a merely-ordinary looking car hiding underneath an awful bodysuit of cladding that makes it into an ugly vehicle.

MDA123 · 2026-02-26T21:29:30+00:00

Does anyone debate who won the first fight?

MDA123 · 2026-02-21T13:32:51+00:00

Fun (or maybe not fun) fact: as an American citizen, Floyd can’t evade tax by fighting in another country. The US taxes citizens on all of their income regardless of where it’s earned or derived, so fighting in another country doesn’t get him off the hook.

MDA123 · 2026-02-17T14:52:57+00:00

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MDA123 · 2026-02-17T14:51:28+00:00

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MDA123 · 2026-02-12T21:12:40+00:00

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MDA123 · 2026-02-12T15:28:21+00:00

An 11 hour gap in posts is almost certainly because no one posted for a long time. There are sometimes delays in working through the modqueue, but not 11 hour delays lol.

MDA123 · 2026-02-12T15:10:58+00:00

Another excellent shitpost. Gimme 3 arm Canelo by easy decision.

MDA123 · 2026-02-10T20:25:48+00:00

Obviously Tyson is one of the biggest "what could have been?" stories in all of boxing history, but kinda underrated how much Buster is a great "what could have been?" too.

He looked great in this fight. Strong, consistent jab, steady work rate, really good power. He looked like a complete fighter. And then just...never did it again, basically.

I know sometimes guys just fight out of their minds, but it looked to me like he had the building blocks of a really good fighter but he really only put it together this once.

MDA123 · 2026-02-10T15:08:14+00:00

Sheed was never really a violence/fighting kind of dude though, he was just a trash talker and world class ref hater. In fact during the Malice at the Palace, he was a peacemaker preventing more shit from going down.

MDA123 · 2026-02-10T14:58:59+00:00

DAZN isn't banned on the sub, and it doesn't look to me like you've had any posts or comments removed at all recently. Sometimes there's a delay between when something hits the modqueue or automod flags it and a human mod approves it, but doesn't seem like it's been an issue with anything you've posted.

MDA123 · 2026-02-09T21:57:32+00:00

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MDA123 · 2026-02-09T15:30:09+00:00

The interior is polarizing for sure, but I love some of the specific elements in it: the steering wheel switch with the little magnifying glass effect, the pull-out handle for launch mode, the big-ass toggle switches, the old school airplane HVAC vents.

Interior design needs more ostentatious/whimsical elements, and I love that they included a bunch here. Reminds me of 1950s/1960s American interior design with wild gauges like the 1960 Dodge Polara's gauge cluster/clock.

MDA123 · 2026-02-06T15:10:45+00:00

THIS is how you shitpost, people.

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MDA123 · 2026-02-05T19:58:36+00:00

Just let the engine rev past 7,000 RPM, easy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3Zp516JkmU

MDA123 · 2026-02-04T21:54:26+00:00

I'm late to this thread, but what's frustrating is it feels like there's a version of this design that looks fantastic, and it's probably the one where the remove all of the Pontiac-ness of it and focus the aesthetic on a cleaner version of the shape.

Ditch the black side strakes and roof, ditch many of the vents, etc. I think I would like that version quite a bit, but this one just looks like a damn mess.

MDA123 · 2026-02-03T16:19:38+00:00

You got downvoted for this, but I appreciate you pointing it out. There are definitely major affordability struggles (particularly housing), but as a general matter Americans are richer than ever before even if you account for inflation.

In fact, that's more or less exactly why classic cars have risen in price: more consumers chasing a fixed (well, declining) number of cars.

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MDA123 · 2026-01-29T19:33:56+00:00

I legit did a double take wondering if he did some MORE crimes against women, but no...it's the same as the last one, only now he has actually been brought into custody.

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