Monday, March 9, 2009

Top 10 Most Overplayed Cars:



Now this list is most defianetly going to make some people mad. Good. I can safely say that I could care less about feelings. We're talking cars here and they hurt more feeling than a woman does. The thing with cars is that you want to keep coming back to them. Women? Sometimes you can just take a nice long break from women. Cars? No. So, here it is for you visual and intellectual pleasure, my second top ten, the Top 10 Most Overplayed Cars in a particular order:

(Definition of "Overplayed" according to me. Overplayed is whenever you go to some car related magazine, video site or car show there are a million examples of that "overplayed" car and maybe two of something interesting that you actually haven't seen before.)

# 10 - Mazda RX-8
I had to fill the list somehow. Sorry Mazda guys. RX-8 goes on the list and at the bottom. There have been a bunch of articles of custom RX-8s and the Mazda would have gone higher on the list but it's just so crap that not enough people buy them. It looks cool. The gain in acceleration that you get after 40,000 miles is pretty cool, but, the car just isn't popular enough to go higher on the list.


# 9 - Honda S2000
The little 4-banger, sports car from Honda started out as a little fish in a big pond that won acclaim and adulation from anyone who drove it. Now that it has aged a few years and the second hand car market has gotten a hold on it, it's become overplayed. Driving around a college campus you'll need more fingers and toes to count all the S2000s on the roads. They start out fast and can be made to go faster. Too many folks driving these little rockets make them overplayed and not cool anymore.


# 8 - Subaru WRX STI
When this car first came to America about the same time Fast and Furious was coming out in 1999-2000 I loved this car. It looked great, had all-wheel-drive and a solid engine. It was just cool for the sake of cool. As new models came out and the performance just went up a bunch of guys who's fathers were doctors got one. A little too many suburban wannabes made this real life rally car their own and sucked to exclusivity right out of it. But, hey, it's still not as played out as its main competitor.


# 7 - Dodge Neon SRT-4
I cannot begin to tell you how much I wanted to put this car higher on this list, but I couldn't. A motorist can't go 100 yards without running into one of these products from Chrysler's SRT-4 division. Exhaust on them sounds great. The engine is massively powerful. When everyone has one, what do these plusses matter? This car harkens back to an era of drag racing big block muscle cars. This thing just has half the cylinders of those old boulevard burners. Everyone's got one = Overplayed.


# 6 - Nissan 350Z
Just like the S2000 the 350Z is a college campus all-star. Slap some rims on this baby along with a body kit and it looks pretty darn good. This car doesn't deserve to be overplayed. It's too nice. It's the japanese Mustang and a great value at the price. Sadness comes over me when I think about the fact that real car enthusiasts, like me, can never get one because of the number of club hopping, blow-out sporting and Affliction shirt wearing dudes that have already gotten one.
# 5 - Ford Mustang
Ouch! Yet another car that pains me to put on the list. I've had a Ford Mustang and it was cool. V8 engine, 5 speed transmission and rear-wheel drive, what more could you ask for? This car is an oddity, however. It is overplayed in its own realm. Look up videos of mustangs racing and there will be very few of Mustangs beating other car that aren't mustangs. Loud exhaust systems cannot make a fast car and it is time that the Mustang guys learn this. I reccomend that all the Blue Oval Musang fellas leave their cars in the garage until they can get some parts that allow them to race against other cars other than copies of themselves.
# 4 - Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
It is almost a four way tie between the top four cars on this list. The Evo is beginning to garner hatred from me. This car has got to get the magazine cover award. I have never seen a car that has gotten more cover stories in the car community. YES! They are quick. There are a lot of other cars that are quick to. Being bombarded with this car has made it lose its coolness. I'm not really sad that this car is overplayed. I can't have any remorse for putting it in the top five, it deserves it.


# 3 - Toyota Supra
Awesome car. Awesome engine. Overplayed. Every other video of a Supra on YouTube.com is of a 1,000 horsepower Supra. "Oh, look, another 1,000 hp Supra." "Now that's something I haven't seen before." If you can afford to put the money into one of these to make it a supercar, more power to you. Judging by the number of Supras on the internet that are fast, and the money that it takes to make them fast, the economy isn't that bad.

# 2 - Honda Civic
The rice burner that made rice poular. It's a Civic. Spit and you'll hit one. Do not make me explain this choice.


#1 Nissan GT-R
The big fat gold medal go to the Nissan GT-R. Just because of the hype associated with this car it goes # 1. A car that breaks and voids its warranty when the full potential of it is realized means that it's sub-par at best. Making excuses for it and talking about it like it's a better deal that a Chevrolet Corvette makes it overplayed. The GT-R was out of date before it came out. It would have been impressive were it not for the rest of the pack of supercars that came out at about the same time.
There you have it. The most overplayed cars in the world. Is your car on the list? Are you angry yet?

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