GTP Cool Wall: 1966-1973 Mazda Luce Wagon

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1966-1973 Mazda Luce Wagon

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1966-1973 Mazda Luce Wagon nominated by @Aphelion



Body Style: 5-door wagon
Engine:1.5L I4, 1.8L I4
Power: 76-104hp
Torque: 85-112 lb-ft
Weight: 1070kg
Transmission: 3-speed automatic, 4-speed manual
Drivetrain: front-engine, rear-wheel drive
Curator's Comments: Vehicle badged as Mazda 1500/1800 in certain markets.
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Quintessential Meh. Quite vanilla Japanese transport for it's time, and it's still quite uninteresting now. Nothing glaringly wrong or right with it. Would've been cooler if, like the R130 Luce, it was available with the 1.3L wankel.
 
I think theyre pretty cool. As i mentioned in the nominations thread, i nominated this because my freind has a beat up old one that they hate. In fact everyone i ask hates it. I wanted to see what a slightly more harcore car enthusiast audience would think of it. So here we are.
 
Cool, unique elegant design for it's time when basically everything else was a box on wheels.

A Good platform for a Build.
 
Another totally unremarkable Japanese vehicle from the 70's. Millennials will be all over these. Uncool.
 
Meh.

To me, it's an obvious Cool from an enthusiast's perspective, but the average person isn't going to do a double-take on an old wagon. However, I think that given more than a passing glance, they'd recognize that the styling at least has something to it. There are a lot of other 'old wagons' out there that ring of "the owner's probably got a crap job and just can't afford something else," but I agree with kikie and mustafur that this one has a certain charm to it that suggests the choice was probably deliberate. Still, it's just shy of actually being "cool."
 

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