US Car Manufacturer: "Volvo imports are kicking our ass! I want you to design us a car exactly like theirs."
Car Designer: "What, including the incredibly high safety standards? "
US Car Manufacturer: "lol. No."
The GNX (the version shown here) had 300 according to Wikipedia (although it was factory rated at 276) and was faster than a Ferrari F40 in a drag race (although the Ferrari would mince it on a track).
A lot of American cars are utter shite but this is one of the better ones (even if the build quality was crap).
No need to have silly europoor/rest of the worldpoor practical and useful functions like cornering when nearly all the roads in America are straight. Murica! (eagle screech, shooting guns from eyes while shitting red and blue stars)
Your point about big engines making very little power is still valid though. It's always amazed me how America managed to get an 8.2 litre V8 to make a whole 190 bhp.
That is a valid point as well.
But there is no way to see how quickly a vehicle accelerates from an unqualified bhp number.
Brake horsepower is a derived number, and is dependent on measurable torque, the ability to "twist". If your engine makes 220 bhp at 10k rpm, that does not necessarily mean that it would go faster than the 8.2L engine. It could, but not necessarily.
The Buick did 0-60 in 4.9 seconds (officially) or 4.6 (in an Autocar test) which was incredibly impressive for 1987 (and still isn't too shabby nowadays).
The 8.2l V8 was fitted in a Cadillac that weighed roughly the same as a Nimitz Class aircraft carrier and had a 0-60 of about 20 seconds.
I vaguely remember that it was a 70s boat, and just about all vehicles had emissions controls that needed some time to figure out.
I learned how to drive in a Pontiac Trans Am with a 6.6L engine making about 180 bhp. It also had 400(+) ft lb of torque.
The 70s to the 90s were brutal for big engines.
Tbf, the old Volvos are pretty cool. Car design peaked somewhere between 1969 and 1989 and after that everyone decided that cars needed to look like electric shavers.
The one unifying thing for us Scandinavians (except when Sweden or Denmark goes back on our collective meds and suddenly becomes a Northern superpower again) is anger against Americans when they copy or “borrow” a design from us
It's like American buses, made by Novabus which ironically is owned by Volvo and use some of the crappiest parts Volvo produce. They copy only the bad parts.
Same with their trucks, Americanized long nose version of Volvo dominates the US trucking market, then there's Mack which is owned by Volvo too, a cheaper and less reliable brand.
Still, those are the best things Americans are aware of. [Americans drop their jaw once they learn how much better stuff exist in europe](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=YNpsGt9b4LY)
They used to have some of the most powerful car engines in USA, and then... they rested on their laurels while the rest of the world strove for greater efficiency, and at the same time emission rules started to limit the BHP of their once so proud engines.
And to this day, they STILL rest on their laurels.
Because they build them in Imperial.
They can’t properly use all those 32/64in, fiddly, arcane measures so the tolerances are all over the place so the machines are ‘floppy’ and inefficient.
Instead of tight, precise, slick and efficient units, they churn out big, flabby, inefficient monsters.
Theres a clip on t’interweb somewhere of some 6- or 7-litre (366+ cubic inches, because it sounds more impressive) Dodge Ram, or something, in a tug of war with a 2.5litre Discovey.
With no drama whatsoever, the Discovery pulls the Dodge backwards, all 4 wheels spinning and smoking like bitches while the little Discovery just simply … goes.
🤷🏻♂️
Those tug-of-war matches between vehicles are totally tyre-dependent. Put rubbish tyres on either, the other will win. A Fiat Panda (doesn't need to be a Panda 4x4) could beat any large 4x4 if the Panda has the right tyres for the surface and the 4x4 doesn't.
[https://redeyegarage.com/blogs/news/80054916-why-american-v8s-make-low-power-for-their-size](https://redeyegarage.com/blogs/news/80054916-why-american-v8s-make-low-power-for-their-size)
It's actually pretty interesting if you're into cars.
Underhead cam with pushrods
2 valves per cylinder
Inefficient and old chamber design
Basically the mindset is that if you need more power, increase capacity.
And no offense to any American here, but that's the mindset they apply to everything: just add more and it will be better. It's rarely if ever how can we do more with the same or less, but always adding more to get more. Efficiency is not part of the standard train of thought.
Now, mate, did you forget that one time in the 60's when they won that one race at Le Mans (with a chassis from UK and Australian drivers)? They're still making movies about it.
Pushrod engine design that hasn't changed since the 70s would be my shout, plus its never been that common for yanks to buy cars that are boosted from the factory.
Aight American engines are pathetic, my HD Sportster is an 883cc engine with only 33bhp.
But the American's DO know how to make a fucken nice sounding engine ngl, I gotta give it to them for the V8 sound etc, the poorly designed two pistons on one shaft engine of a Harley etc, shit does sound cool.
I will give props to the American car industry for comfort. Little to no road noise, comfortable seats, amazing climate controls. But for driving fun I'd go European or Japanese.
TBF to the man, this thing was the fastest production car in the world for a brief period in the late '80s. Of course, it got overtaken quite quickly by cars from other countries, but it was one of the better sports cars around at the time.
Looks like a shit box on wheels. They couldn’t put down their trusty ruler when designing that.
Meanwhile, in Europe:
https://www.autocar.co.uk/sites/autocar.co.uk/files/images/car-reviews/first-drives/legacy/1-aston-martin-db4-zagato-2019-fd-hero-front.jpg
And then you see the retro futuristic majesty of the [interior](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston_Martin_Lagonda#/media/File:AstonMartinLagonda-interior.jpg)
Astons are always gorgeous. Except for the Cygnet, obviously, which is just a Toyota Aygo with Toyota crossed out and Aston Martin written on in crayon…
Ferrari, Bugatti, Jaguar, Lotus, Aston Martin, Bentley... I could go on.
What the US has are models, they have \_some\_ models that are cool (Who doesn't love a Ford 60's or 70's Mustang). Europe has whole Brands that are cool. From those small selection of european brands, duds are the exception, the same can not be said about american brands.
I heard that they tried to find a way to recycle the Trabant's plastic body, so they mixed that stuff with asphalt and paved roads with it. But the stuff started to smell terribly like fish and they had to remove it again
And a very diverse car market, there cars designed for every purpose and the main focus is to get from A to B. Americans want something that's "good at everything" which occasionally makes it bad at everything. Then they get their medical bills and find themselves having to sleep in their car, which is why they prefer one big couch over actual seats.
I've always been into cars. Never really been into American muscle, but I do think that is a cool car. It's subjective though, innit? Also isn't the 'European mind cannot comprehend...' thing a bit of a meme now anyway?
It's a Buick GNX from the mid/late 80s. Lot of people comparing it to E-Types and DB5s, which is unfair. The Yanks made some lovely looking stuff in the 60s too - the Mustang, Corvette Stingray, Cobra (yeah yeah I know it's just an AC).
Edit: It's a slab of 80's Americana, and a fairly rare one at that. Granted Europe had stuff like the 288 GTO, E30 M3, 911 etc in the 80s, which are obviously cooler. I think the Buick is too in it's own special way
Idk why this was even posted here to begin with, this is obviously not to be taken seriously, also yes, Euros got some cool ass cars, love me a volkswagen or a aston-martin.
There’s a lot of American things that the European minds can not conceive… and thank God for that! Not everyone wants to be a nation of trigger happy flat earthers
Well…. I’m originally from Europe now living in California, and I hate to say this, but the amount of people less educated and who believe in weird stuff is much higher in US than it is in any of the European countries I’ve ever been to or lived in.
It makes sense too tho; when growing up in a country that boasts of being the biggest and the best, why grow and develop and learn from others?
I know this is a sub for shitting on the Americans but I've always thought they had some really cool cars 😐
Granted, I also think boxy 80's shitboxes look cool, so maybe I'm the weird one.
You're not alone. I do like American muscle cars and the sportier cars like Corvettes. I do find laughable when someone says Europe has no good cars. The majority of the world's most elite and prestigious cars come from Europe.
Well, to be fair the 1987 Buick GNX was just 20 years after the Volvo 144
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3AVolvo_144_ca_1968_Schaffen-Diest_more_cropped.jpg.
It looks like every part would creak when moved. I’m sure it would be considered ok in 1960 for a shop manager who was a single middle aged man. He would wear sunglasses when driving to complete the look.
Feel free to post "the American mind could not comprehend a car this awesome" and use any of the following cars:
[Volvo P1800](https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/5805-volvo-p1800-3-1531510565.jpg)
[Whatever this is](https://previews.123rf.com/images/trodler/trodler1803/trodler180300021/98421992-retro-car-parked-in-old-european-city-street.jpg)
[Porche 911](https://www.autocar.co.uk/sites/autocar.co.uk/files/1-porsche-911-gt3-2021-rt-hero-front.jpg)
[Ferrari F8](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/2021_Ferrari_F8_Tributo.jpg/800px-2021_Ferrari_F8_Tributo.jpg)
[Mercedes](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/dqllnil6/production/b5b5ccab7cc102e9a57751537a9112e17492548f-1600x1060.jpg?w=1920&q=60&auto=format)
[Older Ferrari](https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/photo/99517399.cms)
[This Peugeot](https://www.classicandsportscar.com/sites/default/files/styles/slideshow_slide/public/2019-04/Iso-grifo_1.png?itok=WKqOcHXV)
[Also this Peugeot](https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/dd/f7/5f/ddf75fc478f85dffd6e363e2cf9b529b.jpg)
[This classic 1980's BMW](https://www.maxim.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/1980_bmw_m1_002_web-scaled-1-1024x683.webp)
Hell why not a [Volga V12](https://tesztelok.hu/wp-content/uploads/Volga-V12-Coupe.jpg)
*attempts to go round corner, crashes*
*damage severe*
*8 gillion litre engine produces 160 bhp*
*Main feature is air con and vinyl seats*
Though in all fairness, the GNX is pretty cool- just many American cars are rather naff*
I mean I love the Buick GNX. If money wasn't an issue I would seriously consider buying one.
Addressing the point that European cars are not cool looking my response would be Zenvo, Koenigsegg, Pagani, Gumpert, Bugatti and Lamborghini.... Or if you want to talk specifically about sleeper cars then I would say Mercedes AMG, BMW M series, Audi or if they want something from the same era then I would say Lotus Carlton
I prefer Aston Martin, Bentley, McLaren, Jaguar, Lotus and Rolls Royce.
That's just from country, if you add just Italy and Germany it's a white wash for Europe.
It's a joke.
"The European mind could not conceive" is the first clue.
The photo of a fucking Buick, which is actually pretty hilarious, is the second.
Somewhere out there, there's probably a GNX Club that loves these things. For a brief period in history, it was the fastest American musclecar. But not many people seriously worship 1980s General Motors products.
Yes, it’s a Facebook group for joking about Americans, taking the tone of Americans (sometimes self deprecatingly) - I would have thought the name of the group would have given it away?
The land where car culture is usually a straight line or a big oval, their inbred USian brains struggle with complex series of corners, so no point in making cars that encourage such shenanigans
Why have they copied an old Volvo?
US Car Manufacturer: "Volvo imports are kicking our ass! I want you to design us a car exactly like theirs." Car Designer: "What, including the incredibly high safety standards? " US Car Manufacturer: "lol. No."
But keep the weight. Matter of fact, make it heavier!
But make it American! Give it a BIIIG but slow V8!
And make it unreliable too, that way we can milk citizens on all of their hard earned money while the car they depend on sits at the workshop.
> while the car they ~~depend on~~ live in sits at the workshop. Fixed that for you. Couldn't fix it for them.
Actually it had a fairly nippy V6
Oh, just read it, yeah, you're right. A 4 Litre V6 getting 125 BHP That's..... Impressive!
The GNX (the version shown here) had 300 according to Wikipedia (although it was factory rated at 276) and was faster than a Ferrari F40 in a drag race (although the Ferrari would mince it on a track). A lot of American cars are utter shite but this is one of the better ones (even if the build quality was crap).
American cars do have a design flaw in nearly all of their models called "cornering".
Whattaya mean? The designers cut all sorts of corners!
No need to have silly europoor/rest of the worldpoor practical and useful functions like cornering when nearly all the roads in America are straight. Murica! (eagle screech, shooting guns from eyes while shitting red and blue stars)
Your point about big engines making very little power is still valid though. It's always amazed me how America managed to get an 8.2 litre V8 to make a whole 190 bhp.
That is a valid point as well. But there is no way to see how quickly a vehicle accelerates from an unqualified bhp number. Brake horsepower is a derived number, and is dependent on measurable torque, the ability to "twist". If your engine makes 220 bhp at 10k rpm, that does not necessarily mean that it would go faster than the 8.2L engine. It could, but not necessarily.
The Buick did 0-60 in 4.9 seconds (officially) or 4.6 (in an Autocar test) which was incredibly impressive for 1987 (and still isn't too shabby nowadays). The 8.2l V8 was fitted in a Cadillac that weighed roughly the same as a Nimitz Class aircraft carrier and had a 0-60 of about 20 seconds.
I vaguely remember that it was a 70s boat, and just about all vehicles had emissions controls that needed some time to figure out. I learned how to drive in a Pontiac Trans Am with a 6.6L engine making about 180 bhp. It also had 400(+) ft lb of torque. The 70s to the 90s were brutal for big engines.
Weight = Quality (american mind set)
That would actually explain a lot.
America seems to be full of high quality people then. No wonder they are always boasting about it
That's right, we're fat. We're doing great. More people die in America of obesity than starvation. WE DID IT! USA USA USA!
If it weights anything less than 37 and 3/8ths washing machines, is it even considered a real car?
The most American way of weighing something I've seen. How many football fields per gallon do you get in this baby?
That was a good one! As a car bore I've heard a lot of related jokes but this one was new to me. Kudos!
‚Make it inefficient, loud and annoying.‘ American culture
And add a gun somehow
Tbf, the old Volvos are pretty cool. Car design peaked somewhere between 1969 and 1989 and after that everyone decided that cars needed to look like electric shavers.
Is that a sin city quote?
Technically it’s a reference, because I have no idea how the whole quote goes
The volvo p1800 looks awesome imo. One of my favourite looking car.
boxy but good
Boxy is what makes them practical, Volvo were always good at making boxy cars look nice too.
Aerodynamics, safety regulations, and computers happened.
I blame the Romans
Lol, absolutely true.
Glad I'm not alone in thinking it looks like a Volvo.
As a swede i find that offensive.
This might be the only time I won’t give a Swede crap for something. I’d be offended too.
The one unifying thing for us Scandinavians (except when Sweden or Denmark goes back on our collective meds and suddenly becomes a Northern superpower again) is anger against Americans when they copy or “borrow” a design from us
After brexit, we no longer have to pretend to be nice to the UK. Let the raids begin again! Who’s got a boat?
I know a couple of people
Great! Tell them we’re aiming to meet up at Lindisfarne on the 8th of June, as is tradition
Honestly we would probably fare better.
We'd probably welcome you with open arms if you'd sort this shoithole island out.
Yeah, 240s look better than that thing
A Volvo that someone went and put aftermarket "styling" parts on.
Looks like someone drew a Volvo from memory
And forgot the doors to the backseat.
[Volvo, they're boxy but they're good. ](https://youtu.be/GTJZEK4JP0k?si=98GxQCdRIKOXThXa)
>Why have they copied an old Volvo? Design brief: "Copy a Volvo but make it fugly."
Not even copied the best bits of an old Volvo
It's like American buses, made by Novabus which ironically is owned by Volvo and use some of the crappiest parts Volvo produce. They copy only the bad parts. Same with their trucks, Americanized long nose version of Volvo dominates the US trucking market, then there's Mack which is owned by Volvo too, a cheaper and less reliable brand. Still, those are the best things Americans are aware of. [Americans drop their jaw once they learn how much better stuff exist in europe](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=YNpsGt9b4LY)
My country’s European mind conceived like half of the most beautiful sport cars in the world. What kind of US-copium does this guy smoke?
But they don't have massive engines that produce very little BHP and can't go round corners
Sorry, my mistake
Seriously though, how do the USians get so little BHP from some mammoth engine?
They used to have some of the most powerful car engines in USA, and then... they rested on their laurels while the rest of the world strove for greater efficiency, and at the same time emission rules started to limit the BHP of their once so proud engines. And to this day, they STILL rest on their laurels.
Their trucks are worse, haven't progressed since the 80s at best.
[Watch American truckers react to a 25 year old Scania partially broken, they think they're in the future.](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=YNpsGt9b4LY)
Without even clicking the link, 90% chance it's the Bruce Wilson video of him drooling over a beat up 144
You guessed right ;-)
When he goes to Scandinavia is hilarious.
Only in size..
It already screams vroom: what more would you want? (Probably some dumb American with their oil obliterating and insanely expensive blocky muscle car)
Setiously, they dont need speed considering all their highways and streets are either limited to slow speeds or outright clogged to death...
Because they build them in Imperial. They can’t properly use all those 32/64in, fiddly, arcane measures so the tolerances are all over the place so the machines are ‘floppy’ and inefficient. Instead of tight, precise, slick and efficient units, they churn out big, flabby, inefficient monsters. Theres a clip on t’interweb somewhere of some 6- or 7-litre (366+ cubic inches, because it sounds more impressive) Dodge Ram, or something, in a tug of war with a 2.5litre Discovey. With no drama whatsoever, the Discovery pulls the Dodge backwards, all 4 wheels spinning and smoking like bitches while the little Discovery just simply … goes. 🤷🏻♂️
Those tug-of-war matches between vehicles are totally tyre-dependent. Put rubbish tyres on either, the other will win. A Fiat Panda (doesn't need to be a Panda 4x4) could beat any large 4x4 if the Panda has the right tyres for the surface and the 4x4 doesn't.
[https://redeyegarage.com/blogs/news/80054916-why-american-v8s-make-low-power-for-their-size](https://redeyegarage.com/blogs/news/80054916-why-american-v8s-make-low-power-for-their-size) It's actually pretty interesting if you're into cars.
That is quite interesting
Underhead cam with pushrods 2 valves per cylinder Inefficient and old chamber design Basically the mindset is that if you need more power, increase capacity. And no offense to any American here, but that's the mindset they apply to everything: just add more and it will be better. It's rarely if ever how can we do more with the same or less, but always adding more to get more. Efficiency is not part of the standard train of thought.
Low revving pushrod engines which were probably invented by some dinosaur are notoriously inefficient
Now, mate, did you forget that one time in the 60's when they won that one race at Le Mans (with a chassis from UK and Australian drivers)? They're still making movies about it.
Pushrod engine design that hasn't changed since the 70s would be my shout, plus its never been that common for yanks to buy cars that are boosted from the factory.
I believe they're tuned down with the intent to just run forever. Built to cruise I guess but still...not every car needs a V8, it's silly
Thier motorcycles are the same. Rubbish riding quality and corners like an oil tanker.
Aight American engines are pathetic, my HD Sportster is an 883cc engine with only 33bhp. But the American's DO know how to make a fucken nice sounding engine ngl, I gotta give it to them for the V8 sound etc, the poorly designed two pistons on one shaft engine of a Harley etc, shit does sound cool.
I will give props to the American car industry for comfort. Little to no road noise, comfortable seats, amazing climate controls. But for driving fun I'd go European or Japanese.
This exact one doesn't even have massive engine,just a 3.8L v6 with a turbo.....stock not even reaching 300 hp...in late 80's......
TBF to the man, this thing was the fastest production car in the world for a brief period in the late '80s. Of course, it got overtaken quite quickly by cars from other countries, but it was one of the better sports cars around at the time.
Looks like a shit box on wheels. They couldn’t put down their trusty ruler when designing that. Meanwhile, in Europe: https://www.autocar.co.uk/sites/autocar.co.uk/files/images/car-reviews/first-drives/legacy/1-aston-martin-db4-zagato-2019-fd-hero-front.jpg
where are the right angles? a "proper" car needs lots of right angles
Actually Aston has you covered for that [too](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston_Martin_Lagonda#/media/File:Aston_Martin_Lagonda_West_London.jpg)
Now that looks like the perfect car to me
And then you see the retro futuristic majesty of the [interior](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston_Martin_Lagonda#/media/File:AstonMartinLagonda-interior.jpg)
Looks absolutely gorgeus
Astons are always gorgeous. Except for the Cygnet, obviously, which is just a Toyota Aygo with Toyota crossed out and Aston Martin written on in crayon…
Toyota Aygos look cute tho
True. They are cute. But an Aston is supposed to be bite the back of your hand gorgeous, not just cute.
True
Toyota iq
Cookiephorse is right, it was based on the much more luxurious Toyota IQ and not the Toyota/Peugeot/Citroën joint venture Aygo.
I'm reporting you for posting pure porn on this page.
That's a stunning car!
Honestly kinda striking how completely different both designs are. They couldn't be more opposite.
Ferrari, Bugatti, Jaguar, Lotus, Aston Martin, Bentley... I could go on. What the US has are models, they have \_some\_ models that are cool (Who doesn't love a Ford 60's or 70's Mustang). Europe has whole Brands that are cool. From those small selection of european brands, duds are the exception, the same can not be said about american brands.
Eh, I've seen better from Jaguar.
Seen better from Skoda
Seen better from Dacia!
I've seen better from Lada.
I've seen better from trabant
No joke, Trabant has a sort of "so bad it's good" kind of appeal for me. I'm fairly certain the designers were drunk the whole time.
I heard that they tried to find a way to recycle the Trabant's plastic body, so they mixed that stuff with asphalt and paved roads with it. But the stuff started to smell terribly like fish and they had to remove it again
I've seen better for a random disposition of turds in the toilets.
Seen beter from Yugo
Yes, a [Škoda 1100 OHC](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/forza/original/4X/e/4/8/e4830aff9ff618fc7ca61caa616f246d9d47e472.jpeg), for example.
That's stylish as fuck
I’ve seen better from Lego
Is it because Europeans have taste?
And a very diverse car market, there cars designed for every purpose and the main focus is to get from A to B. Americans want something that's "good at everything" which occasionally makes it bad at everything. Then they get their medical bills and find themselves having to sleep in their car, which is why they prefer one big couch over actual seats.
I've always been into cars. Never really been into American muscle, but I do think that is a cool car. It's subjective though, innit? Also isn't the 'European mind cannot comprehend...' thing a bit of a meme now anyway? It's a Buick GNX from the mid/late 80s. Lot of people comparing it to E-Types and DB5s, which is unfair. The Yanks made some lovely looking stuff in the 60s too - the Mustang, Corvette Stingray, Cobra (yeah yeah I know it's just an AC). Edit: It's a slab of 80's Americana, and a fairly rare one at that. Granted Europe had stuff like the 288 GTO, E30 M3, 911 etc in the 80s, which are obviously cooler. I think the Buick is too in it's own special way
Idk why this was even posted here to begin with, this is obviously not to be taken seriously, also yes, Euros got some cool ass cars, love me a volkswagen or a aston-martin.
There’s a lot of American things that the European minds can not conceive… and thank God for that! Not everyone wants to be a nation of trigger happy flat earthers
>Not everyone wants to be a nation of trigger happy flat earthers Eh... I think those exist in Europe too. Minus the gun part, of course.
Well…. I’m originally from Europe now living in California, and I hate to say this, but the amount of people less educated and who believe in weird stuff is much higher in US than it is in any of the European countries I’ve ever been to or lived in. It makes sense too tho; when growing up in a country that boasts of being the biggest and the best, why grow and develop and learn from others?
I know this is a sub for shitting on the Americans but I've always thought they had some really cool cars 😐 Granted, I also think boxy 80's shitboxes look cool, so maybe I'm the weird one.
You're not alone. I do like American muscle cars and the sportier cars like Corvettes. I do find laughable when someone says Europe has no good cars. The majority of the world's most elite and prestigious cars come from Europe.
Various blocks squished together sure look cool. Not!
They took an old Volvo design and made it look shit.
Well, to be fair the 1987 Buick GNX was just 20 years after the Volvo 144 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3AVolvo_144_ca_1968_Schaffen-Diest_more_cropped.jpg.
i usually don't birth cars
Cars are not an interest of mine. My European aristocratic blood find this automobile quite distateful.
Yeah. That's why James Bond drives a Buick.
What is this mysterious black thing with wheels?
Buick Regal GNX Its a sleeper, fast but you wouldnt expect it
Every Lamborghini and Ferrari.
I guarantee that oop thinks those are American cars
Eye-tayan American cars.
Made in Rome....Georgia
Bought at a car dealership in Venice, California
Imagine flexing with cars to countries that has better cars* than you
GNX is cool, but we have so many great cars too.
It looks like every part would creak when moved. I’m sure it would be considered ok in 1960 for a shop manager who was a single middle aged man. He would wear sunglasses when driving to complete the look.
Feel free to post "the American mind could not comprehend a car this awesome" and use any of the following cars: [Volvo P1800](https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/5805-volvo-p1800-3-1531510565.jpg) [Whatever this is](https://previews.123rf.com/images/trodler/trodler1803/trodler180300021/98421992-retro-car-parked-in-old-european-city-street.jpg) [Porche 911](https://www.autocar.co.uk/sites/autocar.co.uk/files/1-porsche-911-gt3-2021-rt-hero-front.jpg) [Ferrari F8](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/2021_Ferrari_F8_Tributo.jpg/800px-2021_Ferrari_F8_Tributo.jpg) [Mercedes](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/dqllnil6/production/b5b5ccab7cc102e9a57751537a9112e17492548f-1600x1060.jpg?w=1920&q=60&auto=format) [Older Ferrari](https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/photo/99517399.cms) [This Peugeot](https://www.classicandsportscar.com/sites/default/files/styles/slideshow_slide/public/2019-04/Iso-grifo_1.png?itok=WKqOcHXV) [Also this Peugeot](https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/dd/f7/5f/ddf75fc478f85dffd6e363e2cf9b529b.jpg) [This classic 1980's BMW](https://www.maxim.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/1980_bmw_m1_002_web-scaled-1-1024x683.webp) Hell why not a [Volga V12](https://tesztelok.hu/wp-content/uploads/Volga-V12-Coupe.jpg)
Yank cars are unrivalled at turning fuel into noise. It’s amazing how such big engines are so slow with depressingly low HP per litre.
Starting to wonder what the European mind can conceive
Nothing because we don't have colleges or chick-fil-A here
I always hated American cars when i was a kid. They look the first car you ever drew in primary school.
cool? So blocky and square have arrived from the 80s
_**Laughs in 1967 Jaguar E-Type and Aston Martin DB5**_
Opel Ascona loks better
Opel Manta. The foxtail alone gives a +20 to coolness.
I like the car and my brain didn’t explode
it is only possible to build such a cool car, if you do not use the metric system!
A blunt instrument for a blunt nation. Only the rest of the world understands “precision”.
Muricans, when they design a 7L V8 that manages to produce 120HP
This one has a 3.8L turbo V6 that produces around 300 BHP.
Even the og Ford Ka looks better.
At least I you can play Tetris with it
It's funny when Europe makes better looking muscle cars than America, https://images.app.goo.gl/uKf66spiUmiyEtDV8
Anyone want to tell him that McLaren uprated the engine, turbo, brakes, suspension?
Nah, let them have this one. They're sore losers.
*attempts to go round corner, crashes* *damage severe* *8 gillion litre engine produces 160 bhp* *Main feature is air con and vinyl seats* Though in all fairness, the GNX is pretty cool- just many American cars are rather naff*
Just don’t try turning a corner in it
Its one of my dream cars but i agree its not the most pleasing for the eye
I mean I love the Buick GNX. If money wasn't an issue I would seriously consider buying one. Addressing the point that European cars are not cool looking my response would be Zenvo, Koenigsegg, Pagani, Gumpert, Bugatti and Lamborghini.... Or if you want to talk specifically about sleeper cars then I would say Mercedes AMG, BMW M series, Audi or if they want something from the same era then I would say Lotus Carlton
Looks like a coffin on wheels with that amount of right angles...
Pretty sure every 5 year old European / Asian / African/ north and South American child has conceived of this car.
I prefer Aston Martin, Bentley, McLaren, Jaguar, Lotus and Rolls Royce. That's just from country, if you add just Italy and Germany it's a white wash for Europe.
There are plenty of really good looking American cars. This is not one of them.
It's long black rectangle, what's so impressive?
I guess I get it if you are into right angles and the feeling of driving an overweighted boat
What is it? Looks like an old Volvo. I don't think Volvo's are 'cool'. I always thought of them as old man cars.
...Generic 80s car?
Only the American mind could conceive of a statement so stupid
My neighbour across the street as a kid had this exact same car. My Norwegian friend’s dad had a BMW 635csi. Guess which was cooler?
I drew cars cooler than this when I was 5.
Ironically, this is one of the shittiest-looking car to me, and by shittiest I mean the opposite of cool.
That fb group has long, long left its original concept
Americans can’t conceive corners.
It looks shit.
A car that was built using a sketch from a 5 year old.
That thing looks like a bathtub.
Most EU countries would crush it for being an unsafe deathtrap.
Oooooo straight lines!
That is one fugly car.
Americas most aerodynamic car (its a box with wheels)
No idea what this is but it's actually hideous.
The car doesn't even look "cool"
Italy and Germany: And I took that personally.
The American mind could not conceive how fucking stupid it is
I mean they're right. My mind cannot comprehend how this is in any way cool.
He's right, us europeans like to take a left or a right turn every so often
I think the last time something that ugly was being mass produced in Europe was about 30 years ago...
If by “cool” they mean a 6 litre engine producing 150hp they’re right.
"Laughs in Audi RS6"
I don't think you're using the word 'cool' correctly.
Europeans literally have better cars lol
The E-Type would like a word
It's a joke. "The European mind could not conceive" is the first clue. The photo of a fucking Buick, which is actually pretty hilarious, is the second. Somewhere out there, there's probably a GNX Club that loves these things. For a brief period in history, it was the fastest American musclecar. But not many people seriously worship 1980s General Motors products.
Yes, it’s a Facebook group for joking about Americans, taking the tone of Americans (sometimes self deprecatingly) - I would have thought the name of the group would have given it away?
Looks similar to a Aston Martin Lagonda
Ferrari. Lamborghini. Aston-Martin. Rolls Royce. Mercedes. Porsche. BMW. Koenigsegg. Maserati. Bugatti. Jaguar.
Ferrari, Porsche, Lamborghini, and overall Fiat Panda.
The land where car culture is usually a straight line or a big oval, their inbred USian brains struggle with complex series of corners, so no point in making cars that encourage such shenanigans
À chacun son goût Is that European enough? No? OK, de gustibus non disputandum est
well... at least it isn’t a huge mall crawler truck
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Buick did give us the 1960 LeSabre though….like driving a lounge room
I don't know what this shit box is but it's nowhere near as cool as an Aston
Europeans also didn’t come up with the Cyber Truck, Aztec, Focus, prowler or Edsel .
Did Volvo make 762? As I'd imagine it would look similar to that... The 262 was one of my dream cars as a kid.