sorry, #Dacia, but if you think as a child I blew my mind dreaming of driving *this* one day, and not a DeTomaso or a Corvette or a Ford GT40 then you are seriously mistaken.

@rich The car if your childhood... reinvented as an indistinct brick

Like, I get that even Dacia's highlights were kinda unassuming compared to sports-car looking sports-cars, and that's part of the charm but imagine having to praise this absolute stock asset of a common denominator as aspirational in any sort of way. The "ChatGPT draw me a car" energy would be suffocating if it had any ability to cling to one's mind in any sort of way. This shit is object impermanence manifest!

@VileLasagna "The Dacia LLM" 👍

@rich when I was in my teens, I had an older mate with this old, beat-up, matte-gray Datsun. I thought it was the best thing in the world.

This car doesn’t look like the sort of thing I’d feel proud of driving around and pumping out The Crystal Method’s Name of the Game in.

@nickappleton it is pretty laughable. And you're right, datsuns were awesome. My dad had a datsun cherry which had the coolest back passenger windows. Even my sister's fiat 500 or renault 4 were more desirable than this embodiment of "meh"
@nickappleton and i should say i actually like the dacia duster, jogger etc, particularly as they are half the price of anything else. Just give me a boxy thing rather than <thing that looks like the average of 100 committee-designed-all-rounder-blandmachine> 😁