- Here at Donut, we think all cars are cool.
That being said, some cars are definitely viewed
as less cool by the general public.
But in my humble IMHO
if a car is fun to drive, then that fun to drive car
is a cool car.
Today we're gonna look at nine super fun cars
that don't get the respect that they deserve.
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- [Male Spokesperson] Toyota Yaris.
- You look at the Yaris and what do you think?
Nothing.
Probably, literally nothing.
Just some middle of the road, grocery getter, right?
(in monster voice) Dead wrong.
Because the Yaris isn't your regular Econobox.
It's not even your regular Toyota,
because the Yaris is actually, hmm, a re-badged Mazda.
Is this a fast car?
No, it's got 106 HRSPRS
and a zero to 60 time of 9.6 seconds.
But is it a fun car to drive?
Heg Ya.... ris. (idk)
It's the smallest car in Toyota's lineup
and at just 2,385 pounds, it's lightweight body
makes it a great car to huck around,
especially downhill, with some momentum.
This zippy little Modo baby is a great car,
for huggin' twisties,
even if you're only going 40 miles per hour.
And the sedan version even comes with a 6-Speed manual.
And unlike me, it's even got a freakin' sport mode.
Plus it's super easy to modify,
because it shares a ton of parts with other Toyotas.
Joey Rassool literally has a race car Yaris
that has a bunch of cool race car parts on it,
that he raced cars with.
(engine revving)
And the Yaris is just getting more fun as time goes on.
In January of 2020, Toyota debutted the JDM, GR Yaris
that has a turbo three-banger in it.
I love three cylinder, turbo motors.
I tried to find one for my Golf,
but they're too new and I couldn't get one.
(car slamming down)
- [Male Spokesperson] Volkswagen Cabrio.
- The VW Cabrio, let's be real.
All right, it's not the coolest crayon in the box, right?
It's no jazz berry jam or purple mountains majesty,
but it's still a very fun little whip.
This thing is basically a Golf without a roof.
And when I say basically, I mean,
this car is exactly a Golf without a roof.
This car gets a lot of hate,
but this is one of the most fun cars
that I have personally ever had.
I drove one when I was filming this spike TV show
called "Players," and I love driving it
from Hollywood to Santa Clarita every morning
with the top down to wake me up
because I couldn't afford coffee back then.
It was a very cool car.
Under the hood, the Cabrio has the same two-liter
four-cylinder engine as the basic Golf and Jetta,
giving it a measly, 115 HRSPRS.
That may not sound like a lot, but keep in mind,
this is a sweet baby small boat.
So 150 buff horses is more than enough,
to keep it feeling peppy.
Does its rollover bar make it look like a basket?
Yes.
Does it smell like crayons?
Sure, but you don't drive with your nose.
You drive with your fingies and your tootsies.
Everyone knows that.
And what everyone may not know is that the Cabrio
is more than just a dinky little Barbie car.
Get that rag top down, put your top down,
go for a summer drive on the open road,
just you and your dog.
♪ Tonight ♪
♪ We are young ♪
♪ We light the world on fire. ♪
- [Male Spokesperson] Scion XB.
- Boxy boys always struggle with the cool factor.
The Kia Sol, the Nissan Cube, the Horn dog Element
and the first generation Scion XP is no exemption.
But say all you want about this flat-brimmed hat on wheels.
It's still a fun car to drive.
It's peppy.
It's nimble.
It comes with a tight five-speed manual,
so you can shrimp grimps all day.
Plus, there's plenty of room
for all Frondon, the braves LARPing here.
Yes, it only had 108 HRSPRS,
but driving slow cars fast,
is way more fun than driving fast cars slow.
The Scion has a zero to 60 time in,
10-ish seconds.
And compared to the Bugatti, Chiron 2.5,
to me, that sounds like eight extra seconds of driving
that I get to have and have fun.
Plus, these cars are super customizable
with tons of aftermarket parts available.
Is it sleek?
No, but is it's big boxy, roominess and visibility
what makes it a super fun road trip car
for you and all your homies?
Dead yes.
(car slamming down)
- [Male Spokesperson] Suzuki Sidekick.
- While we're on the subject of boxy boys,
we gotta talk about the Suzuki Sidekick
and it's identical twin, the GeoTracker.
And while we're on the subject of twins,
I wanna give a big old shout to my bro bros
from the Up North, TheStraightPipes
for crossing a million subs.
Congratulations boys.
You've earned it.
Welcome to the club.
It's a great place to be.
These cars have a reputation
for being dorky, colored baby cars,
with a rollover rate that's a,
(yelling ) frightening, frightening, frightening.
But, before you rip on these little bad boys
know that you're not rippin' on a car at all
because the Tracker and the Sidekick
are actually certified legit, on paper, light trucks.
That's right. truck nation, this one is all y'all.
With their light truck chassis,
strong front suspension, and four-wheel drive,
you can take these babies off road
all the way off road.
(quick fiddling music)
They can take a beating, so you can really let them loose
and push 'em to the limit without worrying
about having to take 'em to the truck doctor,
or if the truck doctor takes your truck insurance.
Universal truck care for all, it's a human, right.
It should not be politicized.
(car slamming down)
- [Male Spokesperson] Chirp, chirp.
- People have been rippin' on the Prius
since the pre- U S.
I'm talkin' 1775, brother.
Part of that is electric and hybrid vehicles
being stigmatized by the car community.
But another part of it is the weird, tiny gear shift
that you have to come at, like you're grabbin' almonds
outta of a Mason jar, just like full claw.
Like who decided that?
A million people had to approve that.
Why would you guys do that?
This is a car that's silent, lacks power,
and takes a while to ramp up,
much like an unsatisfying fart.
But despite its stinky reputation,
Pri I can still be fun to drive,
especially the largest boy of all the Prius models,
the Prius V, which comes with a little thing
that I like to call,
(in deep monster voice) power mode.
In power mode, the car kicks fuel economy
to the curb in favor of performance and says,
"You know what guys, it's time to rip."
Sure, lots of cars have performance options,
but a Prius having one, is leaps and frickin' bounds
from where they started.
The First Gen Prius literally had a turtle light
that would come on when your battery was so low,
you couldn't even accelerate.
In hindsight, I think maybe it might've been a tortoise,
which is similar to a turtle, but has flatter feet I believe
and is less aquatic.
Now I'm not here to tell you that the Prius V
is an extremely cool car.
I won't do it.
And Max can't even edit it to make me look like I did.
(high speed tape rewinding)
The Prius V is extremely cool!
You can have fun in a Prius,
and you can take that to the bank.
Then after you're done at the bank,
you can go watch the up to speed, we did,
all about this spunky little spaceship.
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- [Male Spokesperson] The Saturn Sky.
- Saturn, as a company isn't known for performance.
And Saturn isn't even really known
as a company because it isn't anymore.
I'm actually looking into buying it.
Let us know in the comments.
if you think it's a fun idea to buy Saturn
and then use it to produce the Pumphrey 502.
Should the Pumphrey 502, be a Saturn Pumphrey 502?
Saturn is known for having plastic cars.
But for three years and three years alone,
from 2007 to 2009, we were graced
with this dusty little beast, the Saturn Sky.
The Sky is the sort of car you buy
when you're midway through your life and in a crisis.
They should come up with a term for that.
This five-speed, rear wheel drive roadster
was officially nutso, butso.
Especially the Redline,
which came with sport-tuned suspension,
a frickin' Turbio, a white polo shirt
and a certificate for you to fill out
to legally change your name to Broyce.
This car got a lot of guff for being unreliable.
But you know what it didn't get guff for?
Not turning heads.
A base trim Sky made 177 HRSPRS,
but the turbocharged Redline bumped that up, 260
and a dealer-added turbo upgrade kit,
could bump it up to 290.
That all sounds sick, right?
So what actually makes this car uncool?
Well, people weren't expecting
a great performance model from Saturn,
and nobody really bought it.
And if you were in the market for a car like this,
you'd probably go for something more high tech
than the clunky manual top that the Sky came with.
But I gotta say, if you're even thinkin'
about putting the top up on a convertible,
you're doin' it wrong,
dead wrong, pal.
Ooh, I could get used to this.
(car slamming down)
- [Male Spokesperson] Buick Roadmaster.
- You know exactly how the '94 Buick Roadmaster smells
just by lookin' at it,
stale French fries and sweaty LARPing gear.
With its wood grain side paneling and senior citizen appeal,
this thing is just so, vanilla.
It looks like a fridge that fell over.
But what you may not know,
is that this wide-bodied, long boy's
packing some hot, hot heat under the hood,
namely the same 260 HRSPR 5.7 liter LT1 V8,
as a C4 Corvette!
I'm sorry is hot enough for ya',
Mr. Check Slur Cheese Dough?
Beyond the engine, the Roadmaster
has self-leveling suspension, an LSD,
and a 7,000 pound towing capacity.
That's more than a Ford froggin' Lightning.
It has a rear facing third row seat for those passengers
who don't waanna look at their friends or family,
but would like to make direct eye contact
with the stranger behind them,
for the entire length of Utah.
It takes about four hours to drive across Utah.
This extra seating means the Roadmaster
fits up to nine people.
Dax Shepard, one of the top 10,
top gear America hosts ever,
swapped out the LT1, for a supercharged LS8.
That makes 700 truly yoked ponies.
Buick stopped making this gargantuan weirdo in 1996,
because they were so sad about Tupac, true story.
(car slamming down)
- [Male Spokesperson] Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet.
- I know the Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet,
is universally regarded as one of the worst monstrosities
in automotive history.
Virtually everyone hates this Murano, but at the time,
this was the first and only crossover convertible
with all-wheel drive.
Sure, that's a lot of qualifiers to make a record,
but records, is records, and records is cool.
Under the hood, this thing has an absolutely stout
3.5 liter V6, that makes 265 HRSPRS.
The same engine that came in the 350Z.
I'm talking in the VQ.
You ever heard of it?
I'll link the bumper to bumper on the VQ
at the end of this episode.
So basically you would build a version
of high car out of this thing.
Most people can't see past the weird Murano mashup
of soft top convertible and big boy STB body.
Sure, it makes for some goofy styling,
but it also means, you get the best of both worlds.
Talking raw power potential, and open air freedom.
You know, you think these are cool now.
Even if Car and Driver did literally say,
"Drivers will hate this car."
(laughing)
But, what do they know?
Print is dead.
(car slamming down)
- [Male Spokesperson] Chrysler LeBaron.
- The Chrysler LeBaron Convertible
is a lot like the movie, "The Room."
It's weird as hell,
and probably shouldn't even exist,
but it still makes for a very fun experience.
Oh, hi Mark.
This is 1980s Chrysler, their peak garbage years.
The transmission, maybe not the best.
Takeoff acceleration, eh, could be room for improvement.
It creaked.
It leaked.
It came in an array of beiges.
So how could a,
I don't wanna throw this word around,
a literal Cronkerdonker
this bad, still be fun to drive?
I think this owner of one, put it perfectly.
Appearance,
one star.
Performance, one star.
Quality,
one star.
Overall,
five stars.
The math doesn't add up,
even if you use it a TI 83 with drug wars.
But if you think about it, it makes perfect sense.
Because the whole is greater than the sum of its parts,
especially when those parts talk to you,
in a freaking robot voice.
There is a man, that as far as I can gather,
r lives somewhere inside of this car,
that tells you if you has your seatbelt on,
or if'n your car is hurt,.
- (robotic voice) Your fuel is low.
- And I know that this car looks like that wooden shoe
that everyone's grandma has next to the fireplace.
But some of them came with a friggin' Turbio.
So I don't know how to feel about it, all right,
It's confusing.
I thought it was uncool, but maybe I love it.
Is it a lame car or is it a cool road boat?
I don't know, and I don't care!
I'm free!
- [Robotic Recorded Voice] Please fasten your seat belts.
- What's up, guys?
We've got new LowCar Pin in stock.
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These ones are different, we're super limited.
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They're made by Lean Customs, once again.
The last time we did HighLo pins,
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And I don't now how I can get them.
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We're only makin' 800 of each.
Every single one is gonna be individually numbered.
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