The Scion Xb
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This has a lot of the same problems as the Nissan Cube. Anyways, it has several styling features that are really terrible. Why is the bumper 80% of the front? It looks like something an ex-Soviet state would produce out of old tin cans and scrap metal. Also, It is a Scion, not exactly known for quality, reliability, or really anything good. For instance, The ride is very stiff, the gauges are very hard to read, and it accelerates like a 'barrow with 2 wheels loose. It is also incredibly loud when inside; if this piece of Tupperware wasn't bad enough. The Xb is also this weird combination of minivan and hatchback, frequent readers of my blog will know my feeling about mixing two vehicles, it is the opposite of a win-win, it is a lose-lose (read more here: http://badpopularcars.blogspot.com)-. This car's styling looks like someone described a Toyota Sienna over the phone to someone, and didn't realize that the other person didn't know what a modern car looks like. The BOX-ter can also come in some really horrible colors, like solar yellow, or hot lava orange. The fist generation Scion Xb also got a "poor" rating in side crash tests (possibly because it had no side airbags). The Xb is called the Toyota bB in Japan and it can come in all-wheel drive, and because we are only American, we only get front-wheel drive. This is also a popular "riced out" car (if you don't know what I am talking about google "ricer").
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Horrible, no other words to describe it. It looks like a delivery van, but uglier.
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DeleteWhy would you buy this? Not cheap, safe or good looking? I don't get it.
ReplyDeleteYou're right about it not being cheap, It's 17 grand for that piece of tupperware.
DeleteWow! I was wondering why it took so long, but I am glad you finally wrote about my most unfavorite of them all. You are right about the Tupperware look. Something North Korean dictator would commission to have it built.
ReplyDeleteCan you believe the number of these cars on the road though? What can you say except people's taste in cars and the willingness to buy anything thrown at them. Down the tube it goes...
I should say your writing is getting better by the post! I am hooked!
Thanks for the complements!
DeleteThe extra bit in the front is so odd, like a shelf, smh
ReplyDeleteSeriously, it is like a cow catcher on a train. Btw, this is the nephew of penpie
ReplyDeleteIt definitely looks like a cow catcher!
DeleteThe only thing it catches is some serious side eye! Lol
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DeleteWhat would you do if someone picked you up in one of these!? (Penpies nephew again)
ReplyDeleteI would run far, far away
DeleteWould you rather: walk on hot coals or, get a ride in the scion xb?
ReplyDeleteDefinetly hot coals
DeleteThis is penpies sil, does xb stand for xtra but-ugly? Just sayin'
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DeleteYou would be happy to know that some of your choices are spot on. They made the list of 100 ugliest cars on Edmunds.com
ReplyDeletehttp://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/features/100-ugliest-cars-of-all-time.html
I would like your next post to talk about the 1957 Trabant. As the website says "When East Germany wasn't busy screwing up everything else, it forced its citizens to buy this rattling bucket of ugly misery." Ha!
This thing looks like a cross between a Morris Mini Minor and a '55 Chevrolet Nova
DeleteYo, yo, yo L Have you seen the 1947 Davis D-2 Divan? Check it out...
ReplyDeleteLOL It's a 3-wheeler!
DeleteLove these cars. I feel like a clown as I walk up to them, thinking I won't fit, and sit down and feel engulfed by the largess of the interior. It is the true large man's mini car. I recommend it for basketball players. And I love the Cube too, having driven one frequently. Great gas mileage and solid weird styling keeps people like me just staring and asking why. If you don't get Picasso, you won't get Xb or Cube.
ReplyDeleteTo each his own
DeleteComparing the artistic sensibility of Picasso to a Cube is c.r.a.z.y. Picasso had period where he used hedrons and cubes particularly in his art. That does not have anything to do with an ugly car called a cube.
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