The decade of the 1990s gave us Limp Bizkit, dad dancing at the launch of Windows 95, “Star Wars: Episode I” and more hours of AOL than existed in a whole month on discs that won’t completely biodegrade sometime until the 32nd century. But the 1990s also gave us plenty of cool cars, some of which were only around for a short period of time before succumbing to the pressures of time and space, just like Tamagotchis and 98 Degrees.
Some of the nameplates were around for a short period of time because they seemed uncool to the average consumer: Eagle Medallion, Peugeot 405 and the Daihatsu Charade fall into this category. But now the joke is on the conformist squares who bought Ford Explorers, just like 27 of their neighbors in their subdivision. Others went to the big junkyard in the sky because they were bad and should have felt bad. Turkeys like the Ford Aspire, the Geo Metro and a surprisingly big gang of Pontiacs come to mind.
As 90s nostalgia becomes a thing thanks to bidding battles on Bring a Trailer over poverty-spec BMW wagons and the horrors that befell automotive design in the 2000s, a weather system of warm feelings is settling over models as varied as the brick-shaped Volvo S90, the E39-generation BMW 5-Series and the Acura NSX. Have you tried to find a clean Buick Roadmaster from the 90s lately? They’re getting bought up by scalpers faster than “Star Wars” figures were in 1995.
What 1990s vehicle do you miss?
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