GTP Cool Wall: 1992-1993 Oldsmobile Achieva SCX W41

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1992-1993 Oldsmobile Achieva SCX W41

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RandomCarGuy17
Just plain uncool, it came from a period where GM was just making mostly crummy & dull cars. The only positive thing I have to say about it is that I sort of like the color. Oh, and the fact it's related to the silly Cavalier & Sunfire doesn't help its case either.
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It comes from a period when the world, excluding Europe, was making mostly crummy and dull cars. :lol:
 
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LMSCorvetteGT2
Surprised you didn't put in the MKIV Supra or MR2 or NSX. Even the SC300 and 400 were a bit ahead of the times I'd say. Obviously ahead of American standards :sly:
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I didn't think of those, but all of the nice Japanese cars in this period were mostly expensive performance or luxury cars. The normal cars were just boring.
 
LMSCorvetteGT2
No it's your track record, it'd be stupid to just say that based on one thread, and from my post you can see I've just no come to that conclusion thus some time was probably involved to do so.
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So you've taken note of how I voted in every single cool wall? If you did you would see more often than not I go with the majority.

Anyways, there is no rule that says I (or anyone) must vote how everyone else is voting. That is why there are options.


So you base the coolness of a car on a car that isn't anywhere remotely the same as the production car just a few pieces here and there? Or other race cars that though are tuned version of the production car cost multiple thousands to get them there and don't perform that way in production form thus not really a realistic performance car.

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This is what you seem to find cool, but the car we're voting on isn't this just a hollow shell

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@Tornado seems to have covered this part nicely.
 
Adamgp
So you've taken note of how I voted in every single cool wall? If you did you would see more often than not I go with the majority.

Anyways, there is no rule that says I (or anyone) must vote how everyone else is voting. That is why there are option.
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Did I say that? If I did say I took note in every cool wall since you started voting then please point to where I've said that. I'm talking about this year and more so the past few months. Also no on said you had to vote as everyone else. I instead said you seem to vote in a way that is in spite of certain groups that vote here. I'm clearly not the only one to question you in the most recent ones.
@Tornado seems to have covered this part nicely.
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I'm sure for your benefit he did.
 
Yep. I have to say that @Adamgp seems to have in recent time established a pattern of voting contrary to the majority whenever a clear general consensus exists. (Disclaimer: I am not claiming that this is always the case, but it has occurred on numerous occasions.)

If memory serves, he was the first to vote cool on the Devil's appalling build quality or whatever that thing was called.
 
Why does it matter? Maybe he's not doing it intentionally and really doesn't agree with the majority?
 
It doesn't matter whether he's doing it intentionally or not. It's just an observation that @Adamgp tends to vote against the consensus whenever a large one exists.
 
Roger the Horse
It doesn't matter whether he's doing it intentionally or not. It's just an observation that @Adamgp tends to vote against the consensus whenever a large one exists.
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And this is a bad thing how? Leave the guy alone for cryin' out loud.
 
I never personally said it was a bad thing, although anybody voting cool for the Develed Egg strikes me as being suspicious.
 
Roger the Horse
Yep. I have to say that @Adamgp seems to have in recent time established a pattern of voting contrary to the majority whenever a clear general consensus exists. (Disclaimer: I am not claiming that this is always the case, but it has occurred on numerous occasions.)

If memory serves, he was the first to vote cool on the Devil's appalling build quality or whatever that thing was called.
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Sometimes I do vote "for the LOL's", I will admit. (ex: Devel Sixteen)

Other times I vote seriously and just don't agree with the majority. (ex: Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale)
 
Cool wall - Serious Business.

Who gives a stuff whos voting how - get over it it's a novel thread. Do you guys get this heated over Pick up sticks?
 
My opinion is this.

I like GM compacts, even the ones that are FWD. But the Achieva is a specially uncool car from one of GM's least cool brands. People elsewhere on the internet have actually nominated it for "car most symbolic of personal defeat" on at least one occasion. Far from living up to its name, it's a car you joylessly drive to your soul-eating dead-end job at Fail Mart (a job like mine, in other words). And this doesn't really differentiate itself enough, visually speaking, from the generic Achieva you see deteriorating in the driveway of someone who can't remember the last time they really felt happy. It's one of those cars only car people get - we might see the SCX badge and think "fast", but everyone else just sees poverty and despair on wheels.

Seriously Uncool.
 
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'Achieva'.


Seriously Uncool doesn't cover it. I want the name and everything associated with it to burn in the darkest recesses of Satan's bowel.
 

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