These Are The Cars With The Strongest Cult Followings – Jalopnik

Cults are humorous issues. You would possibly factor you might be too good or sturdy to get sucked into an odd means of seeing the world, but when they get you on the proper time, you are all of a sudden placing rubber geese in your dashboard and waving at everybody who owns the identical automobile as you. Cults are sneaky like that. I requested you about what automobile you thought had the strongest cult following within the automotive world earlier this week, and a number of the solutions have been predictable; Miatas, Jeeps, and the cultiest of cult, Teslas, all made the lower. 

There have been some surprises although. I by no means thought of Corvette homeowners a cult, however their homeowners do appear to put on the identical sneakers and garments… There was even a suggestion from Europe, which I’d have by no means thought of. Take a have a look at what automobiles your fellow Jalops suppose have the strongest cult following, and take a look at to not get sucked in by the sauce. Just bear in mind; your smarter and higher than that. 

People appear to actually love the Tacoma and 4runner. They suppose its an indestructible go wherever automobile. Which dont get me fallacious they’re succesful however not good

Is it the perfect off roader? No.

Is it probably the most dependable automobile? Also no.

Is it the perfect outfitted for the value? Definitely not means overpriced and beneath outfitted

Is it the perfect Toyota they make? No means however its what they promote within the US.

From Gerrit DeBoer

I nonetheless see loads of older gents sporting their greatest jean shorts and shiny white new steadiness grouped up in parking heaps with their Corvettes

From Flashpoint Zero

I feel Saabs are fairly nicely beloved, even because the producer not exists.

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Here to attest. Still miss my gradual, sturdy, brown 1980 Saab GLi 3-door that was totaled as the middle automobile in a sequence response collision.

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Saabs in fact.

I bear in mind after I was rising up my greatest buddy had an MGB it had a cult standing too. At least in N.J within the 70s.

From David Flores and Michael Rosenfeld and Saabster and lots of, many others

Teslas or Jeeps.

But actually, it is Tesla. We all know it is Tesla. Name one different automobile – excuse me, AI firm – that has a fanbase keen to come back out of the woodwork to defend their N*zi God on the drop of a hat. Name one different group that gives you a laundry listing of issues that go fallacious with, fall off of, or they dislike about their automobiles and log off with “nonetheless love the automobile, although!

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Name one other group that may attempt to declare the interiors devoid of usable and intuitive controls, high quality supplies, and creaks and groans are literally luxurious. Then when you problem them on that, they will pivot to how nice the software program is, as if that is the one and solely characteristic that determines how good a automobile is.

Bossrday and DynamicPresence

The Grand National. There’s a subset of individuals for whom Buick perfected the car in 1982, and for whom it is all been downhill since. Is the Grand National a great automobile? I do not know, I used to be 1. Is it higher than automobiles right this moment? Probably not, it does not have CarPlay. But when you’re a Grand National Guy, it is THE automobile, full cease.

From Rayce Archer

WRX STi. Scoobie persons are past devoted. We endure from important cognitive dissonance and all of our head gaskets are simply high-quality, thanks very a lot.

From JohnnyWasASchoolBoy

The Chrysler PT Cruiser. Widely hated for its awkward retro styling and being unpractical and unreliable. Yet these items have a devoted following of homeowners who modify them and collect for meets. I bear in mind studying one touch upon Reddit about these. While I do not recall the precise phrases, the commenter talked about he knew somebody who was obsessive about them. The topic in query had two PT Cruisers within the driveway and a group of toy Cruisers on a shelf. So sure, individuals could be very hardcore in terms of these.

From Giantsgiants

Since the reply is at all times Miata, the reply is clearly Miata.

From Clay Horste

People who’re actually into Porsche 911’s are, uh…. Special

From JaredOfLondon

Jeep Wrangler. They at all times park collectively, swap geese with one another and modify them to be all however ineffective off-road.

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I’m going with Jeep. Spend hundreds to make them extra rugged and barely any go away pavement. They like to let their leg hang around to be lower off in an accident. But most unusual of all is their obsession with rubber duckies.

From Thomas Hajicek

Here’s a humorous one from my house nation: The diesel Seat Ibiza. Those issues are ugly automobiles that aren’t actually excellent to drive when inventory, however in Portugal (and another European nations), these have an enormous cult following. People will pour all the cash they’ve into them to make them quicker. Those engines are very dependable, and could be tuned to fairly excessive horsepower and torque, supplied you do not thoughts forsaking a path of black smoke that will put a steam prepare to disgrace, and in flip, have the again of the automobile at all times coated in soot and contract some type of lung illness. There are different diesel automobiles that get the identical therapy, however the Ibiza, due to its low cost price of admission, is probably the most prolific one, and the image for that entire rolling coal group (the Portuguese equal to the British “chavs”).

From Tiago Bastos