I'll second this. Brown can look good on anything. On new cars, it's mostly restricted to the luxury makes, and thats too bad.

Of course, I've yet to put my money where my mouth is. A silver car, two black cars (never again!) and I just bought a gray car. I'm exciting like that.

Look, I was a geek about wagons long before I realized that the internet was full of people that were obsessed with wagons. But I just can't make myself care about this car. Maybe it's because the internet won't collectively shut up about it and now I'm bored, or perhaps because it doesn't have wood paneling or bench seats. I don't know.

Same goes for anything else in the V8/diesel manual sport wagon category.

Was carpeting standard on the Bel Air? Maybe the heater or the side mirror? That's about all I can think of. This thing doesn't even have a glove box.

My grandparents drove a similar Biscayne wagon until 1973-ish. 230 ci 6, Powerglide and rubber mats. My grandfather used to give my dad a hard time because the beater '65 Impala sport coupe he bought as his first car was still nicer than the family car.

I'm a sucker for Triumphs, both 2 and 4 wheeled, but the TR-7 is utter s**t. Technically, the two bikes are, too, but at least they look good.

The Corvair. A midlevel first-gen sedan with Powerglide is about as unappealing as possible, but its too ridiculously cheap to pass up.

The Riv by a country mile, even though the color combo sucks. The Toro with its ham-fisted '68 facelift would be my second choice.

However, all but the T-Bird seem like great bargains.

My 79 year old grandmother just got a new Buick LaCrosse. Despite what GM marketers and fanboys claim, Buick is still the king of old fart cars.

However, my increasingly old-mannish 58 year old father loves his beige Camry, and my now 86 year old grandfather drove a gray Camry before he gave up his license. However, I still see plenty of young people driving Toyotas, its just that the old folks never saw a need to walk away from the brand - it has to do more with Toyota being a comfortable, low-maintenance appliance car than a geezer car.

I'm withholding final judgement until I see it in person. It looks attractive in the pictures, and its cleaner than the Sonata, but that roofline is totally impractical for a sedan. It can't do any favors for headroom or trunk access, and I bet that rear window is just as impossible to clean as my Mustang's was.

Speaking of my Mustang, that's the biggest reason I have no interest in this car. Between the Chinese junk transmission, ticking V8, clunky SYNC and slapdash assembly quality, I don't trust Ford enough to be a repeat customer.

I should say that my rant really wasn't directed this site. Hooniverse just happened to be the 3rd or 4th site I've seen complaining about this list and I stumbled in the middle of that funny post-work, pre-beer time where I'm most likely to rant.

This place is usually a beacon of sanity in the car blog world, and it was easier to post this rant here rather than elsewhere.

And, yeah, it's a crap list.

See, this is why regular people find car people (or any other type of enthusiast) boring. We fly off the handle over nonsense like this. "Someone insulted my favorite '80s Gutless Crapbox and/or '70s Rolling Bordello. To the internet to register my disgust!"

Whatever. Most of these cars really were crap in one for another. Maybe they were engineered by a moron. Or assembled by someone who didn't care. Or maybe the company who sold them didn't know the first thing about selling cars to actual people. Perhaps it was a combination of the three.

The Solstice was all hype and halfassed execution. The MN12 Thundercougarfalconbird? Great car that was simultaneously gauche for the 6-Series buyers it was aimed at and to sophisticated for the couch potatoes and geezers that normally bought T-Birds. The Grand Prix GXP? The ancient W-body with a transverse small block? Well that was just pants-on-head stupid.

I can go on.

All I hear anymore on any give car site is the constant whining about how people don't buy station wagons with diesel engines and manual transmissions. The instance that, say, that car X would have been great if only Y had/hadn't happened. The constant sniping at Detroit or Japan, depending where one's braindead loyalties/prejudices lie. All the lamenting about how things ain't the way they used to be.

I find myself commenting less and less on auto forums. I've practically lived and breathed cars my whole life, but listening to the same tired attitudes and knee-jerk responses is just...boring. Maybe it's because I'm still smarting from the Eurodouche on [REDACTED] who accused me of not being a "true car guy" because I drive a beater econocar with a slushbox. Or maybe it's just that, unlike the rest of the internet, I'm not 14 anymore.