As a car enthusiast, I’m sure you’re getting pumped for new cars all the time, regardless of whether or not you plan to buy (or can afford) the latest and greatest from insert brand. Lord knows I won’t be buying a new car anytime soon, but that fact does nothing to curb my Heinz-Ketchup-commercial-like anticipation for spotting new models I’m into on the street and checking them out in the showroom. Holy crap, is that a baby Corey Feldman?! Oh, pardon me, I was just watching the video I hyperlinked there.
Back to car-ticipation. Though I’m always looking forward to lots of different new cars dropping, I am inevitably more rabidly interested in some than others (hence the query of today’s Autopian Asks). Back in my early high school years, I was on tenterhooks (it’s not tender hooks, I looked it up) for the C4 Corvette to finally appear in actual fiberglass. Like so many other kids, I had the spread ad for the car on my bedroom wall, and after a full lifetime-up-until-then of nothing but the C3, the idea of an all-new Corvette, especially one so sleek and futuristic and digital-gizmo’d, was completely enthralling.
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I was also tracking motorcycles closely at the time, and not long after the C4 dropped, Honda introduced the GB400 retro-bike that would eventually come to the States in 1989 as the GB500 with a boost in displacement to match the name. The GB500 was way behind the times in styling (intentionally, of course) which made the backward-looking Honda way ahead of its time as far as the craze for retro-styling goes. I was mad for the ersatz British look of the thing, and couldn’t have cared less that it was really just a boring Universal Japanese Motorcycle at heart and hardly a screamer with its 500cc SOHC inline four.
Retro would be a bit of theme for me, as another vehicle I simply couldn’t wait for was the New Beetle. My Dad had a Squareback followed by a pair of Beetles (the last a Super), and a 1974 Super Beetle was my high school transpo. So, like Jason, you might say I’m a bit of a Beetle fan myself. I will confess I was a bit underwhelmed by the car once I experienced it in sheetmetal (my sister actually owned a first-year model), but the anticipation was, once again, ketchup-grade.
Now it’s your turn: What’s The Most Pumped You’ve Ever Been For A New Car?
… or a motorcycle, or truck, or anything really. I didn’t follow the rules, so you don’t have to.
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