I’m reminded of when I was blogging about brown shooters, FPSes during the era realistic graphics looked brown and dingy with subdued coloration.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES do an image search of brown shooter with safesearch off. Worse than goatse hello.jpg.
Jeeze, I dunno…doesn’t look all that weird to me.
A true monstrosity of a design but the technology going under the hood and into the car itself was phenomenal for the time.
Bi-fuel engines, completely flat engine hood, wide door, lots of room inside for people and cargo. A good car.
Doesn’t beat the gross experience of seeing a cybertruck on the road. I wanna point and laugh every time. The multipla is cute in comparison. Look at this goofy lil guy <3
I saw a matte black one yesterday, it looked like someone had forgotten to finish painting it and just left primer on it.
Edit: this is about seeing a Tesla in the wild, realized I was unclear
I saw one plastered with advertisements on the street in working class neighborhood. I felt bad for the person who needs to drive it and keep it safe.
It’s ugly in a cute sirta way. Like a pug.
Would always prefer this reasonable priced vehicle with european safety measures over the ridiculously overpriced, rusty garbage container cutting fingers off or trapping people inside because of an update on a hot summer day.
I have owned two FIATs and a Lancia (FIAT Group) Delta. The Lancia was the funnest car I’ve ever owned. It chomped my Golf GTI any day. Road handling was a dream, equipment was amazing, things like stock Recaro seats, etc. That said, I will never own a FIAT again. FIAT is Stellantis: FIAT, Peugeot, Chrysler, Citroen… Amazing impulse buys. Sweet cars new, but they age horrendously.
They are designed to fail in the short term. Amazing innovations, power oriented engines, but just too flimsy.
The Multipla is a great concept executed the FIAT way.
I believe Honda had a 6 seater subcompact. The CHR or CRV? I can’t remember. I’d pick the Honda any day.
The MKII had much better styling, BTW
I’ve rebuilt two FIAT engines. An engineer’s wet dream. A 1,20L that output nearly a 100 HP? yes, but a shitload of compromises. the fucking head was the top engine support!!! Fuck FIAT.I must admit that the 900 was simpler than a scooter’s engine. You could probably work on it with a Leatherman and some duct tape, but I have owned motorcycles with 3X the power output. I’ve driven some Cinquecentos. Opening the hood/bonnet has given me PTSD.
It was the Honda HRV, and it couldn’t hold a candle to the Multipla.
The Multipla had 6 full size seats that could all comfortably hold adults, plus the backseats where individually removable. I loaded a couch sideways in that car. Absolutely brilliant.
The middle seats on the HRV were significantly smaller, no comparison in terms of usefulness and versatility.
The Multipla is just inoffensive uggo. I’d rather have that than a PT Cruiser.
That thing looks like someone’s just discovered the concept of curves and is just going hog wild with it. The cyberdumpster is still the worst for many reasons, but goddamn, the Cruiser is putting up a respectable fight.
I don’t think PT Cruiser is that bad. It looks like every other early oughts car except that at least this one is attempting to bring some styling from the early hot rods.
That thing looks awesome.
Awh, the Plymouth Prowler is actually one of my favorite cars. 😅
As ugly as they are, I’ve never met a boring pt cruiser driver. Awful alcoholic narcissists, your basic bad bitches. Often objectively awful people, but never boring.
It looks like a car carrying its little car friend on its back.
I would choose the Cybertruck design over this, every time.
It’d be more tolerable a design without rich Elon bros being their primary market. They’re both dorky, but the context is key. If the cybertruck was affordable and well built by a less shitty company, it wouldn’t represent the decline of American civilization.
Hmmm. Almost as if i specified
design
for a reason.
Bold to assume the design isn’t embedded in the culture, technology, and economics in which it is built. If you tried to take a modern shape and build it in the 40s, you’d get a shitty car by design. If you tried to buy an electric car in rural America with no electric car infrastructure, it would be a bad investment based on its design. If the classic jeep wasn’t a staple of WWII, or if the 50-70s era mustangs weren’t in so many action movies, those designs wouldn’t have the popularity they have now.
This goofy Fiat is a joke, but the cybertruck is offensive. Trucks are very useful for moving stuff with fewer trips in rural America, but the cybertruck sucks at hauling, and isn’t in an area with abundant charging infrastructure. Some of the trunk space would permanently go to keeping a charger on hand if you tried to use it in rural areas. It’s larger and bulkier than necessary for cities, meaning it would be better as a sedan or compact. It’s expensive and poorly made, but unlike the multipla, it’s impractical anywhere but wealthy suburbs at a fundamental level. At least the multipla has typical Fiat usefulness.
My fault for being unclear—i’m only talking about the aesthetics.
I drove a Fiat Panda through the hills of Tuscany. Only let off the gas to shift and still barely broke 50 km/h. lol
This car was ahead of it’s time. I love it
When will it’s time be though? Because it was ugly then and it’s still ugly now.
Still better than cybertruck
I used to drive the multipla, and I tell you what! People used to fight to sit in the front because it had 3 front seats! The 1.9jtd after tuning had 150hp so I went head on with golfs and polos. When I bought it it was “Car of the future” but the memes made it look bad.
Yeah but the mod options are insane
I can hear that damn brake pedal already…
The rental car agencys in Austria and Germany had a huge amount of those. They didn’t sell well because of the optics, but if you needed a replacement car because yours broke down, they were awesome and always in stock.
Google? I’m European, I’ve seen this on the streets. Still sometimes do. My friend had one.
I learned to drive in one (I guess the driving school got a good price on them due to the low demand lmao).
the multipla is one of my all time favourite cars such a silly little guy!!
1294 horse power ahh tuned car
Bing it instead
Chimera ahh car
