Post cars that were everywhere but vanished

Never see riced out 4 bangers in the south anymore. 2009 or so the died out.fixed until they broke irreparably i suppose

These too.

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These were everywhere in the bay area when they were new.

They were always low production but you'd see one in every downtown.

Fisker then died and they all vanished.

still see them quite regularly in germoney

I would suggest the title belongs to 2000 era Caravans, or the Sunfire

literally everything made by volkswagen, crystler and chevy lol

The Taurus wagon. The Taurus sedan was everywhere of course, but the wagon was common as well. My mom had one, it was a practical late 80s family car but eventually got a lot of mechanical problems. Buick had a Roadmaster wagon that looked similar but was relatively uncommon.

>The poverty mobile. Now that title currently belongs to the Grand Am
hahahaha so true too

Neighbor I rode to school with had one of those, he ragged that thing out day after day and it kept going

This was one of the hot cars that teens wanted at my high school in the mid 90s. I remember the school dyke had a black Eclipse and it looked awesome. They were magnet to cops too, if you were a teen driving an Eclipse you were going to get pulled over a lot, lol. When they changed the body style around 2000 to give it straighter lines they kind of killed the look and car imo.

Saw these everywhere in the 80s and 90s, I wanted one so bad when I was in high school. Also, dark green Grand Cherokees in the mid/late 90s were ubiquitous.

In the northeast the Chrysler-era ones are still kicking around in reasonable quantities. I can only assume the AMC models either died because of rust and AMC's reliability or lack thereof.

Speaking of Chrysler products, where the FUCK did all the LH cars go? Both first and second gen models seem to have vanished. Shame cause they were damn nice cars too. Very comfortable and smooth riding.

>nice celica bro

I still see plenty here in MO.

These things were everywhere when I was growing up

These were solid SUVs
I had one as my first car

>tfw trying to find shitboxes that were shitboxes before I was born
feels bad man

crown vics, i feel like they all disappeared

This. I see probably 10 XJ's a day still.
They're legendary. They're truly the best SUV ever built.

If you think Broncos, Blazers, and Scouts are remembered fondly, wait another 20 years for the XJ to be remembered as the best car ever built.

XJs are still used and abused

All the timeless Blazers, Scouts, etc are garage queens now

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Northern VA here. There are like 10 really clean ones just in my neighborhood. Not too long ago when I was looking for mine I found two of 'em at almost every used car lot and I kept finding assloads of them all throughout VA, MD, and PA. You know what thinned out the XJ herds in most areas? It wasn't old age. It was cash for clunkers.

I never see them down here anymore save for someone's lifted Cherokee with muddin' tires.

I have a Ford Escort rotting in my driveway.

These are still everywhere.
t. slav

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Oh yeah. This too

Old Golf III's, along with Polo 6Ns. It's not like they weren't total shit anyways, but it's strange that ten years ago they used to be everywhere.

A guy in my neighborhood owns 2 of these

>This was luxury back in the day

The Avensis T22 hasn't disappeared entirely yet, but I rarely see these things anymore.
Some 7-8 years ago they were the most common car on the road.

They all disintegrated due to rust.

I remember seeing ricers like that in 2009, but after that they vanished and probably got replaced with stancefags.

Plenty of these still around, considering how often they're crashed.

Now here's a contender for sure. I haven't seen an Escort around for ages, but they used to be very common.
I see Sierras more often than Escorts on the road these days.

They all went to easter europe

I saw one the other day, in great condition, and also thought how uncommon they've become.

scrapage scheme killed the last of them

You mean russia?
They are almost extinct in poland and czech

Eclipse was initially boxy vehicle. But yeah, naming "eclipse" and 90s era perfectly described its design

Theyre rare as daily drivers, but not rare for stancefags or other "project" makers.

Eastern european here. Lithuania - second home of VW. Mk3 are quite rare nowadays, especially in larger cities. Hell, even mk4 is not so popular. Up until around 2012 golf mk4 and mk3 were like the car to get. They were everywhere. There was so much of them to the point where thieves robbed parts off golf. Imagine - shitbox a primary target for thieves, bullshit right? But thats how much popular they were.

Poland here.

Pretty much all communist cars: FSOs, FSMs, Polski Fiats, Trabants, Wartburgs, ass-engined Skodas...

Then Poland joined the common EU market in 2004, a few million used cars were imported through the next few years, and rising supply drove used car prices down.

Result: commie cars were barely worth anything, and most of them went to people who could barely afford an oil change, and drove their rides into the ground.

These were once common, now I see 5 a year.

I give them a few more years before being semi rare

It's like these don't even exist anymore in aus.

Europoor edition
What happened to these, up until 2-3 years ago I saw them literally everywhere. Now maybe just 1or 2 a week

FSOs and Polski Fiats were sold here in Paraguay too, and i used to see at least one of them once in a while. Now they're all gone
Here's another one that used to be a regular sight

See a few of them daily, in the Netherlands.

Can't remember the last time I saw one of these

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They were known for reliability issues and were built 2001-2007, my guess would be that they all finally broke down.

These were everywhere In Italy 'till 2008/2009. Then, In like a year, they were completely vanished. Now you only see them abandoned in someone's backyard

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I ran a red light and T boned one when I was 17. A piece of plastic fell of my car, the Jag was fucked. Hit it with pic related.

I want one of those truck so much! Sadly I would have no place to park if I found one.

What happened? Were they unreliable or just victims of the scrapping scheme? They're almost completely gone

Just came back from a holiday in the Netherlands and saw a lot of older cars out and about.

What's the deal with those teeny weeny little cars that usually drive on the cycle paths?

UK here.

as a bong i remember these seeming to simply vanish in the early 2000s, have maybe seen one old Ka since 2004 and that's it.

18 year olds drove them all into trees

>Just came back from a holiday in the Netherlands and saw a lot of older cars out and about.
Yeah, we don't swap cars that quick. We don't use them as status items. A 1,6L is also considered a big engine here.

>What's the deal with those teeny weeny little cars that usually drive on the cycle paths?
You mean our national pride? The famous Canta LX?
They're for the elderly, handicapped and 16y/o rural kids

youtube.com/watch?v=4lKq1fGtXFM
>podride is just a knockoff
My respect for this dude just dropped significantly

That's a 4 wheeled bicycle with a cover. The Canta is a 3 wheeled scooter with a cover.

What’s the top speed on one of those puppies?
Any info in English is scant.

Fiskers look so cool but i guess a lot of people don't like gassing themselves with the window open.

45km/h (if the cops are watching).

They use two stroke scooter engines AFAIK, so getting 70-80km/h out of it should be possible.

Yeah I thought as much. It's similar here in the UK. That being said, I only visited Amsterdam so there were a bunch of newer cars like the VW Up, and also it looked like a taxi company or a car sharing company that loan out Hyundai Ioniq?

Those little cars are adorable desu, but it was so strange, seeing as though that's the first time I ever saw one.

>Hyundai Ioniq
Probably because taxes a cheap car to have. Did they have blue license plates?

Romania has literally ALL the Golf 4s.

I see your common as fuck shit box, and raise it with pic related

These 7th Gen Thunderbird's were everywhere until the mid 90's. Bullet proof '77-'79 Land yachts. My father had a '79 Heritage Edition

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Very popular in eastern Germany in the 90s, now almost gone

I swear, about 1 in 10 cars you used to see were the older astras.

>Veeky Forums slowly begins to realize the 90s were 20 years ago.

I think they all got destroyed in rally and other types of racing as soon as they got cheap.

>tfw I'll never drive this deathtrap
Feels really bad mang

My buddy uses a fairly clean 81 as his winter beater.

You mean 00s

I see these everyday, and they fill dodgy car dealer's forecourts, going for £200-400.

Usually a girl's first car.

Christ, I havn't seen one of them for a while.

I don't see many "newer" astras either.

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What year is that? Looks really similar to my parents '97 XK8, though the grill is from the Aston Martin version of the car IIRC.

Looks like a knockoff of the pinz

Honorable mentions go to
>saturn s series
>pontiac sunfire
>chevy cavalier
>pontiac montana
>buick rendezvous

Talons looked better.

Buddy of mine has an 03 Sunfire currently sitting on his landlord's front lawn. The driver's side window motor was going out (passenger had already failed) and instead of having new work done he bought a 17' Accord V6.

He's too much of a lazy bastard to sell it as a beater on craigslist. I could buy it right now for $20 (cost of the non-op) but I'd be on the hook for new registration, insurance, along with the car needing oil, brakes, shocks, a new drivers seat, and the aforementioned window motors.

Only time I see these they're usually mint one owner cars with an old fuck behind the wheel.

There is this one I see driving around that pisses me the fuck off though, some dumbfuck kid bought it off some old man for $500. Mint white 91 si.

The kid screwed orange trailer lights to the underside of the car poverty under body light style, then made a shitty sheet metal wing and installed it with self taping screws through the hatch into the original mint paint and painted the factory wheels with the cheapest flat black paint he could find.

I want the car to catch fire with him in it.

This they are still all over Eastern Europe

same with

Now these are truly rare to see

You must be blind, I see an E100 almost every time I go out.

Such a shame
I learned how to drive manual in one of those when I was 14

Sad reacts only lads.

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