BangShift Question Of The Day: What Cars Of The 1990s Should…

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I won’t miss the tropical color choices, or the strange gel-pen inspired “sport graphics”, but the 1990s did bring about some interesting ideas for gearheads. Monochromatic paint styles, the use of tweed in the interiors, Mickey Thompson steamrollers on the back of a twelve-second Chevelle…ok, I kid. The 1990s gave us an improved version of the Fox Mustang’s formula for success, a re-imagined Chevrolet Caprice that made big four-door barges badass, and we got to see a no-shit horsepower war play out between Ford and Chevrolet. Do you remember Coletti’s Boss Mustang and Moss’s ZL-1 Camaro? I do. Other options, like the Viper, the Corvette, the Supra, the Skyline, the Sy/Ty turbocharged freaks from GMC, and the legions of sporty Japanese coupes all have their places in the market, but today’s Question Of The Day is simple: which car should be a collector’s item that isn’t already?

I’m offering up two options: the Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais Quad 442 and the Geo Metro XFi. Hear me out. And stop laughing for a second. The Quad 442, in W41-R configuration, came out screaming with over 180 horsepower and as much as 190 with the W41 package. This is a tiny little cookie-cutter GM front-driver on a platform from the 1980s that was able to run a 14-second quarter bone-stock from a wicked-up Quad 4 engine. That’s worthy on it’s own right, and we’ve heard of Quad 4s making nearly 700 horsepower with some major re-working. The car is small and is a wicked handler, to boot, and they don’t look half-bad…again, for a 1980s GM Xerox car. The reason for the Geo is even simpler: because f*** your Prius. In a test against Toyota’s smug-mobile and a Honda Insight, a used and abused Metro trumped both modern-day eco-boosters. Simple, easy, and more basic than the pumpkin-spice and furry-boot crowd that will appear shortly, the Metro was honest and simple, if spartan.

Do you have any good calls that most people wouldn’t think of? Let’s hear ’em!

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Posted by CharlesHamillton on 2018-09-12 10:37:20

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