These vanished around me in the past few years. Used to see them everywhere.
Cars you don't see anymore
Cameron Hall
Andrew Campbell
Anthony Walker
There were shitloads when they first came out.
Charles Cruz
They've all been lifted and absorbed into the Jeepbro community :'(
Ethan Brooks
Don’t have a pic, but Honda Del Sols. Granted, i’m In the rust belt so any old jap cars have long since rusted to death.
Jacob Gutierrez
I still see these chugging around fairly often. But the LH cars like pic related seemed to disappear overnight.
Mason Lee
I still see the odd one here and there, but I think the Neon has just about died out, yeah. This one on the other hand, is completely extinct as far as I can tell.
Adam Green
I've seen a fair amount in Alaska.
Alaska, btw, is like a living museum of shitty 90s cars.
There are still Ford Tempos in the wild in AK.
Aaron Howard
The Neons got riced up and spit out.
The Escorts got commuted into dust.
All that remains is the Cavaliers.
Luke Jenkins
i see these around and even owned one up until last year.
Rust is a big problem with these as well.
Gabriel King
I still see way more of the LH cars than the Neons. Most are accompanied by a thick cloud of burning oil and transmission whine that sounds like a Hellcats blower whine but louder. I almost feel bad for the things.
Ah I always wondered where off lease cars go.
Thomas Long
literally anything with a rubber bumper or chrome bumper
Xavier Cooper
I saw an absolutely pristine first gen Sable wagon in navy blue the other day.
If the owner was around I would have given them 25 hipster points.
Angel Green
these
William Jones
It's kinda funny in a lot of the smaller towns everybody will drive the same or similar models of cars to make it easier to get parts.
Also they don't salt the roads in most of the state (because it literally wouldn't make a difference) so rust is less of an issue.
Jonathan Diaz
it's kinda sad thinking about how all the shitboxes you've gotten used to seeing around will slowly fade away. even the 7th gen civics are starting to be replaced in the shitbox category by early 8th gens.
Jordan Stewart
Seriously? I see practically 10 a day.
Like said, they're all that's left.
Charles Campbell
lmao these must have all ended up in atlantic canada.
Jaxon Wright
I see lots of sedans but the wagons are getting harder to find.
Anthony Long
I'm in a place where they salt the roads, and I hardly see them now. Sunfires on the other hand, for whatever reason...
Camden Perez
I'm in Eastern South Dakota and I still see a fair amount of Concords and Neons. And an absolute assload of Cavaliers.
Brayden Ward
Salt and weather patterns make a pretty massive difference in a vehicles longevity. In the rusty hellhole of alberta cars go extinct pretty quickly. A lot of running vehicles go to the scrapyard because of rust.
Ah so the west buys all the good shit then sells our rusty sloppy seconds to you guys.
Nicholas Williams
There's a guy in my apartment complex who still keeps one of these on the road. Must be in his mid 20s. Shit impresses me.
Alexander Clark
I get giddy if I see a clean Festiva rolling by.
Carson Brown
>Veeky Forums suddenly realizes the 90s were 20 years ago
Hunter Robinson
damn, dude. i remember seeing them all over town when i was growing up, but i probably haven't seen one now since i was in highschool.
Jordan Diaz
pretty much
Isaac Hill
I think that generation of Dodge Dakota perfectly sums up why Chrysler went bankrupt in the late 2000s.
>bean counters be like OH SHIT THE OLD ONE COST TOO MUCH MONEY TO BUILD
>let's take out a lug nut
>let's take advantage of the union's mandatory "new lunch trays every month" policy by melting down the old ones to make the interior plastics
>let's also make the engine out of the same plastic
>let's get rid of the regular cab
>marketers be like OH SHIT PEOPLE WANT SOMETHING BIGGER
>let's make it about 1 inch smaller than the ram in every dimension
>let's make it look exactly like the ram
>let's make it cost as much as the ram
>let's still call it a "compact" tho
>repair shops be like OH SHIT THE OLD ONE BE TOO RELIABLE
>let's replace the tried and true engines with some unproven new design
>let's make the engines out of that same lunch tray plastic to save money
>let's fuck with the transmissions a little more
Jose Powell
It also doesn't hurt that Alaskans are very good at keeping old cars going even if they look like a scrap pile.
If you live in unincorporated areas you can get Z tags, which are permanent registration tags, so you never have to renew or get inspected. You see some pretty Mad Max shit when you get up in the Interior, but it's got a plate on it.
This has also created a huge grey market/dead man's boots environment.
I have a friend who has four cars but only one of them is actually in his name. The rest where cars that just got passed around town when the original owners died/moved away.
Cameron Anderson
The fucking lunch trays bit got me good. Fuck late 2000's Chrysler interiors.
Jayden Hughes
That and they killed the Neon without a replacement.
Jackson Cruz
This abomination right here was supposed to replace the Neon.
Evan Ramirez
The Caliber was supposed to be a replacement but it kind of failed.
Kevin Mitchell
My work has a 2004 Ram because old lady took out our 2002 silverado.
The ram is so much shittier inside, like it's literally mcdonalds toy plastic through and through. It's actually fucking shit.
Wyatt Powell
Sorry its a 2006 ram, even worse
David Wood
Yeah, most mid-2000s shitboxes had kinda meh interiors but MY GOD if Chrysler wasn't the absolute fucking shittiest of the bunch. Flat grey plastic with hard edges.
Asher Diaz
>center console is wider than the seats
>column shifter points downward in park
Kayden Wright
Right, I should say a PROPER replacement.
Who the fuck knows what they were thinking with the Caliber.
I mean the Neon wasn't a brilliant piece of engineering, but it was a great value platform that appealed to a broad base. And it had its own SCCA racing series FFS.
Nolan Davis
FUCKING THIS
Dodge has the worst interiors I've ever been around
Adam Bailey
Yeah it's fucking horrible
Alexander Cruz
CHEVY CELEBRITY
I miss those beauts
Kayden Evans
I saw one of these a few weeks ago
Jordan Cooper
I saw a Chevy Beretta the other day and had to do a double take.
Dylan Green
Wyatt Ramirez
I see more Passports than I do Rodeos, I don't know which sold in greater numbers so I don't know if that's odd or not.
Hunter Parker
Ithey vanished because the transmission blew at 50k. I had two of these as company cars, and loved them. I was disappointed in Ford quality though...that's why they are all but gone.
Jeremiah Phillips
Cash for Clunkers raped these off the road
Benjamin Nelson
Well that and people not wanting to sink a bunch of money into the collapsed air suspension.
Brayden Miller
Asher Edwards
The Luminas definitely won that fleet car battle, there's way more of them still on the road these days.
Chase Richardson
Get them replaced with springs my dude. Not as nice of a ride but its still better than most cars. I guess a lot of people probably did get rid of them when their ass started sagging.
Luke Wilson
I still see them. Typically beaten and blown suspension driven by poor people or road hazards at least half the posted speed limit at all times.
Owen Torres
>throws away something when a part breaks
disgusting
Jeremiah Collins
Blake Watson
Worry not friends, one GL remains at stock ride height, in drivable condition and within a months time, back on the road.
Brody Perez
>Oldsmobiles have really disappeared since the early 2000s, driven by old people or blacks
>Ford Aerostars get rarer and rarer
Caleb Young
>own a second gen plymouth voyager
>I'm probably one out of the 10 people in my massive city who still owns one
third gen ones are still fucking everywhere
Alexander Ortiz
me too!
Leo Cox
>rotted into the ground
Rest in Pepperoni, shitboxes
Justin Morgan
>tfw manual first gen neon are impossible to find
Oliver Gomez
>3 door
nice
>EA81
nice!!
I sold my Loyale shitbox a few months ago but it's in good hands
I sure miss the little fucker
Adrian Wood
I haven't seen an Intrepid in forever, and they were goddamn everywhere. But I mean
>Dodge
William Phillips
The base engine in those (i.e. the one that everyone bought) was the 2.7 V6, renowned for its uncanny ability to split water pumps at about 60k.
Daniel Butler
Brandon Morales
They all got turned into cheap kit cars.
Nathaniel Sanchez
I recently saw one of these in person again.
Mk4s are still fucking everywhere, but mk3s have all either rotted away or been shipped over to the eastern block.
Jack Bailey
I had the displeasure of driving one of these at work. Was a costumers car though with a manual, IIRC it was the SRT trim or whatever came with the turboed engine.
The clutch pedal was mushy as hell, you couldn't really find the biting point on that thing. Then there was the gearbox, same problem, you shifted it into first but you weren't sure if you really hit 1st or ended up in 3rd and there was the interior. That shit was beyond cheap Chinese plastic, a fucking food tray at mcdonalds has probably better plastic than that.
It was a low mileage car though, had like 60k miles on the clock. Not sure what happened to it but I haven't seen it for two years.
Adrian Hall
>but mk3s have all either rotted away or been shipped over to the eastern block.
after reliving their second youth in Poland they are up for their 3rd youth in Ukraine.
Evan Long
Drove one of those in high school, Glorious shitboxes
Ryder Bailey
they are still quite common
try finding a mk2 or even a mk1 that is not a convertible.
Adrian Murphy
my dad has a 1.9tdi living it's second life.
By now the paint is important to the stucture of the car body.
he paid $100 with 6 months of insurance left
it already paid off since he just wanted to strip some parts for his actual daily driver mk3 wagon which is mint but lacks some fancy parts like the better headlights or fog lights.
Nolan Cooper
What the fuck happened to the first gen Toyota Avensises or Avensi or what the plural of Avensis is? The 2nd gen is still somewhat common and I still see some Caldinas here and there, but the first gen is completely gone
Wyatt Green
>Caldina
meant Carina
Oliver Lopez
These cars are everywhere in central (very poor area) Wisconsin.
Bentley Evans
Every car disappears after a while, that's not some classic sports car.
Juan Long
These threads aren't really about cars, there about "Holy fuck, I'm getting older"
>The 90s ended almost 20 years ago. There's almost an entire generation between you and your youth now. Everything you loved as a kid is slowly disappearing with time
Ian Reyes
There's a woman in my neighborhood who keeps one, and sometimes I see a white one in the parking lot of a store I go too, but that's it.
Thomas Thompson
A friend of mine bought one that was in really nice condition, just needing an affordable car, and couldn't figure out why it got so much attention from car guys everywhere.
Liam Gutierrez
Probably the fault of the 1zz 1.8 drinking themselves out of oil.
Josiah Roberts
Weird. I was leaving work a few weeks ago and some dude pulled out in one of these, red too. First and only one I've seen in the wild.
Kayden Flores
I've only seen one of these recently, and even that was about a year ago.
Christian Collins
I see a lot of 240s where I live, but what about other parts of the country that aren't the Pacific Northwest?
Luis Young
They're rarer in places with a lower concentration of hipsters.
James Rivera
used to be like ants now i never see them
Juan Bailey
Where do you live? My area is crawling with clapped out old Pontiacs.
Camden Ortiz
The diesel option (1cd-ftv) wasn't much better
Daniel Gomez
SW Mo here. The only ones I've ever seen are mine.
Brody Nelson
Actually no, I've seen one other one. It was owned by my high school's friendly resident drug dealer.
Jayden Watson
Eastern Europe here.
These went extinct about 8-10 years ago.
I did however see one recently, but these used to be everywhere.
I guess "lol Opelrust" meme caught up with most of them
Sebastian Johnson
I honestly can't remember the last time I saw one of these Celicas. They were super popular with a very specific type of woman years ago but they just vanished.
Some dude in my neighborhood has a fuckin' diesel 240 and its the only one I've seen in a decade or more. My parents still have a 940, tho.
Jonathan Williams
That's the way it goes. B-Lot dealers buy all the old trade-ins from A-Lot dealers in wealthier areas at auctions. Then when the B-Lot dealers are done with them, they wind up on the side-street dealers in the dirt poor areas close to the Mexican border.
Alexander Bailey
other than mine, I've NEVER seen one in person. got it for a very good price too so idk.
Brody Morgan
Not true, there are still tons and you can find a lot of 90s ones driven by the elderly that have less than 100k miles.
Mine has almost 200k and the airbag suspension still works fine (have a lot of leaks in the engine though)
Carson Butler
Its good to see a few that arent in scrapyards.
Luke Sanchez
There's one in a super richfag area. first I'd ever seen it and had no clue what it was. must have been the original owner desu as it looks really out of place.
Michael Ortiz
I've only ever seen one of these and it was this exact model.
David Evans
Brazil's national car
sad history with ze germans and the ITALIANOS
Jackson Thompson
The first gens didn't sell in big numbers so it's not weird that you don't see many of them.
The second gens sold better but people don't notice them because they honestly just look like a Prius at a glance.
Gavin Gray
blame cash for clunkers for this entire nostalgia-fest
Evan Myers
There are at least 3 clean blue 1st gen neons in my small kansas town. At first i thought there was only one but then they parked next to each other at walmart once. The most glorious matrix glitch i have ever witnessed.