- Szechuan Sauce, My Chemical Romance, Family Guy,
sometimes things get discontinued,
and then people realize how awesome they are,
and they get brought back.
Cars are no different.
Today we're gonna look at 10 cars that died,
and were sent to hell, but then,
they came back.
We're gonna decide if the newer versions
live up to the original, or if we should send them
back to hell from whence they came.
I'm James.
And this is ...
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- [Narrator] Acura NSX.
- You look at any kid from my generation's list
of dream cars, and I bet you $400,
that the Acura/Honda NSX is gonna be in there.
And for good reason.
The NSX was one of the coolest cars at a time
when there were a ton of cool cars.
It was so fricking good,
that Ayrton Senna drove one in loafers.
It was the first mass produced super car
with an all aluminum monocoque (beep) chassis.
It had a beautiful, naturally aspirated three liter V6,
and the (beep) cockpit took cues from an F-16 fighter jet.
And, it had (indistinct).
(screaming)
So it was pretty upsetting when
after almost 15 years in production,
Honda said they were going to stop making them,
and send the NSX straight to hell.
You know, where all cars go when they die.
"But James, if the NSX was so good,
why did they kill it and send it to hell?"
"Sincerely, not sure man, 69."
Well, it was simply existing in a changing landscape
of fierce supercars and not being able to keep up.
The fastest available production version the type R,
only made 290 horsepower.
Which, at the end of its run just wasn't enough.
But, in 2016 Honda resurrected the NSX, and toop toop,
it doesn't really live up to the original.
Originally it was supposed to have a 10 cylinder engine
but that was scrapped for twin spiny boy V6,
plus three additional electric motors that make close
to 600 horsepower when all said and done.
And while it's not as bad as a lot of journalists
have made it out to be, I don't think it's a spiritual
successor to the original NSX,
which is lightweight and simple.
Honda tried to make it a luxury car, and that's fine.
But then they should have named it something different.
Is it an NSX?
In my opinion, no.
Should it go back to hell?
No, it's fine.
It can go to purgatory.
If you thought that that was gonna be
the only three-letter car on this list, you're dead wrong.
This one is American.
And Aryton Senna probably never drove one.
Who knows?
That guy never tells me anything.
- [Narrator] Pontiac GTO.
- The Pontiac GTO is arguably one of the first,
if not the first muscle cars.
I'm not trying to argue about that right now.
That's not what we're here to do.
Okay, so the story goes, golden boy, the chin himself,
John DeLorean took at Pontiac Tempest,
which was considered a grandma car back then.
And cram Pontiac's biggest engine under the hood.
The 389 cubic inch V8, that's 6.4 liters
for my soda heads out there.
GTO caught on, and soon every other car company
was trying to stuff a huge engine in their
own midsize coops.
But, the GTO remained the original
hunky muscle car boyfriend.
Up until GM decided to pull the plug in 1974.
Most people, will tell you that it's because
Pong Mania had just swept the nation,
and everyone forgot about cars.
But my theory is, that it was because,
a little thing called the gas crisis.
You won't find that in textbooks, so we'll never know.
Meanwhile, the GTO stayed in hell for the next 30 years,
breaking big chunks of rock for literally no reason at all.
What are they doing with the rocks?
Nobody knows.
I imagined it to be a very frustrating situation.
But in 2004, the GTO came back from hell,
only this time it had an Australian accent.
"Oi mate, what she say (indistinct)?
Just a ReBadge old Menaro."
This next gen GTO was powered by LS1,
that sent all 350 brumbies to the rear wheels.
And, it had a top speed of 180 miles per hour, not bad.
The only thing that kind of sucked,
was that it looked like a mid 2000s Pontiac.
Which didn't quite capture the allure of the original GTO.
It was discontinued a few short years later.
And then, Pontiac went to hell right after that.
Personally, I think that if Pontiac made the new car
look more like the old one,
they would have had a lot more success
And, I'm not a huge fan of the GTO.
I'm not gonna send it back to hell,
but I don't really want one either.
So, it too can stay in purgatory.
- [Narrator] Ford Bronco.
- The original Ford Bronco a badass little four by four,
that spanned five generations from 1965 to 1996.
But by the late nineties,
SUV's were becoming gigantic behemoths.
And the little old two-door Bronco wasn't selling
as well as it had been.
Plus the whole OJ thing, might have ruined things
a little bit for the little Prince kicky horse.
It went to hell.
And it was replaced by the expedition to better compete
with the Yukon in the suburban.
And they also made the escape, which, you know ...
Then in 2017, Ford announced that they were bringing
back the Bronco after 20 years in hell.
The newest Bronco debuted last year.
But, is it any good?
Does it retain the spirit of the original Bronco?
Well, most people that have driven one are saying,
"Yeah, yeah, it does.
It maintains the spirit of the original Bronco.
You can take the doors off and the roof.
It's great."
It looks cool as hell.
And it comes in a bunch of different trim levels,
and has a GOAT mode, which if you know anything about me,
you know that I've love GOATs.
LeBron James, Jay-Z, me, greatest of all times
I think this is one of the best reboots ever.
So the new Bronco is 100% stay on earth.
It is not going back to hell
- [Narrator] Chevy Blazer.
- (indistinct) Blaze.
What did you think I was talking about?
Ha-ha.
Another American manufacturer trying to cash in on
an old marquee is Chevy, with their answer to the Bronco,
everyone's favorite truck named after
a sensible dinner jacket, the blazer.
It's a compact two-door, four by four.
It has the same amount of letters,
and its named as the Bronco.
And it debuted just a few years
after the original Bronco did, in 1969.
It was an awesome little compact Forder,
some might say better than the Bronco.
But, around the turn of the nineties,
GM was shifting to a new full truck platform.
And with the shift, the blazer was,
(boom) extinguished.
It met the same fate as the Bronco.
Because everything was getting bigger back then.
(Fire whooshing)
And it went to hell.
But last year Chevy brought this road dog back
from hell with updated everything.
But, instead of being a rugged four by four
like what Ford did with the Bronco,
they made it a pretty average sort of
unrecognizable crossover.
And a lot of people on the internet got really mad.
So normally, I'd have to go ahead and send
this thing straight back to hell.
But then, I saw this thing that Lingenfelter made.
It makes 450 horsepower, and it kind of looks like a
baby Lamborghini Urus, all for $50,000.
So, it can stay.
- [Narrator] Volkswagen Scirocco.
- Here's a video that someone I don't know took of me,
loving life in one of my favorite cars,
my 1981 Volkswagen Scirocco.
Somehow this video has almost 500,000 views.
Although this little dub looks like a Golf,
there's almost nothing in it that is identical to a Golf,
apart from the engine,.
It was designed by my guy, designer of the century
Giorgetto Giugiaro as a replacement
for the Karmann Ghia in 1974.
And they actually made a Scirocco GTI,
before they made a Golf GTI, okay?
So, put some respect on his name.
Which, to my best understanding means,
a hot dust laden wind from the desert.
For two generations,
this beautiful little squishy boy went zero to 60
into our hearts, and then topped out shortly thereafter.
And in the nineties, they discontinued the Siracco,
in favor of the more powerful Corrado, also a great car.
From 1992 on, it sat in the seventh layer of hell,
feeling like it had to poop.
But then, every time it went to poop, no poop came out,
it was just farts.
But they still had to wipe a bunch, and they had to rush.
But then, the little old Siracco caught a break,
when Volkswagen announced that they'd be bringing it back
in the mid 2000s.
And by 2008, the newest Siracco was rolling off
the production lines at Volkswagen's Portugal Golf plant,
just like before it looked like a beautifully squished Golf,
and offered the same engines as said Golf.
They even made a Siracco R.
Ah, a jewel rag please, Max.
Thank you.
Unfortunately, all I can do is drool into this rag
until 2033, when it's legal to import
one of these in the States, because we never got them here.
So I will not be sending it back to hell,
until at least then.
If you're wondering who gave me these powers,
don't worry about it.
(beep sound) I got it from a store.
- [Narrator] Jeep Grand Wagoneer.
In the 1960s, Jeep put a station wagon body
on a light truck chassis, and voila, the Wagoneer was born.
The Wagoneer was super successful,
and was actually the longest running domestic
produced vehicle on the same platform, by 1991.
My parents had one when I was a kid.
It's a great big car.
So, why the heck did they stop making it?
Well, by the end of its production,
it was powered by a 5.9 liter V8,
that made a whopping 144 horsepower,
which is not a lot of power in a ginormous Wagon car.
And, that big old weak boy V8 only got 11 miles
to the gallon.
And by the early nineties,
gas mileage was on everybody's mind,
including car manufacturers.
And after 29 years, the Wagon here took its last drive
down the river sticks and vanished forever in hell,
(fire whooshing) or so we thought.
Jeep announced the new grand Wagoneer last year,
with the first version being available this summer 2021,
the horniest summer on record.
As SUV's become ever more gigantic, powerful, and luxurious,
Jeep just couldn't help themselves.
Just like in the sixties, they threw their hat in the ring.
Only this time, that hat costs $110,000.
But this hunker, is a real truck.
Is built on the Ram 1500 platform,
and boasts 10 inches of ground clearance.
It's also got a really cool four by four modes,
thus maintaining the essence of a Jeep.
I'd love to know more, but sadly it's a Jeep thing.
And they told me, I just won't understand.
- [Narrator] Chevy Nova.
- The Chevrolet Nova is on the Mount Rushmore
of classic muscle cars.
The Mount Rushmore power baby!
In 1970, you could get the Novo with a 396 cubic inch V8
that put down almost 400 horsepower.
But just like with the GTO,
and basically every other car of the era,
it became an anemic little twerp,
and got all the fun juices squeezed out of it because of.
Pong Mania.
So at the end of the seventies,
Chevy euthanized what was left of the poor little creature,
and yes, it fell straight into hell.
I don't make the rules, I play within them,
all cars go to hell.
But then, a rift from center hell opened up,
and before it had time to close, this emerged.
(creepy sound)
The 6th gen Chevy Nova, a.k.a ReBadged 1892 Corolla.
I like Corollas, I have one that doesn't run
in the other room.
But this thing, this isn't a Corolla.
This is sacrilege.
An abomination from the devil himself.
From 1985, three years after its debuted,
the Nova was killed once again.
And now, it's right back where it belongs.
There are some fates worse than hell.
This is one of them.
- [Narrator] Ford Thunderbird.
- Over 40 years and 11 generations, the Ford Thunderbird
underwent a lot of different transformations.
And by the end of its run, it resembled every other boring
American coop on the road.
So, in 1997, Ford executed it on the spot.
Hands behind its head, fell into a ditch.
But around the year 2000, every US manufacturer
started rolling out retro futuristic models.
Now this trend was started by the new Beetle,
and gave us cars like the Prowler, what's up Yuri?
The PT Cruiser, or Max's favorite car, the Chevrolet Scion.
Now considering how boring a lot of people thought
the 10th gen Thunderbird was,
the new T-Bird was striking in comparison.
It really kind of captured the essence of
the fifties Thunderbirds.
The only difference was that this time,
the car was meant for old people.
The suspension was soft,
and it didn't have a manual option until later.
The redesigned T-Bird was only in production for three years
before it went back to hell again.
Because, it just wasn't successful.
And if American culture has taught me anything,
if you're not successful, you go to hell.
The Thunderbird was not a great example
of the retro futurist reboot trend.
But, there's one company that pulled it off really well.
- [Narrator] Dodge Challenger and Charger.
- The 1960s and seventies saw some of the most iconic
versions of these cars,
with (indistinct) V8s and amazing paint jobs.
The coolest colors available,
this side of the Lamborghini machine.
So needless to say, the bar was pretty high,
when Dodge decided to bring these guys back
in the mid 2000s.
But as we know, they are a huge hit,
and continue to sell like crazy.
Show me someone who just enlisted in the military,
and I will show you a Dodge Charger or Challenger.
The spirit, of the original muscle car has been kept alive
as Dodge continue to introduce bigger,
and more powerful engine.
Should these cars go back to hell?
(car engine roaring)
No.
This brings us on to one of the most anticipated reboots
in automotive history
- [Narrator] Toyota Supra.
- Over four generations, the super reflected the enthusiasm
of an emerging car subcultures that ate up
anything and everything JDM.
But, as Japan's economy started tanking in the nineties,
and people in the US stopped buying sports cars,
Toyota decided to stop making Supras,
after the mark 4.
Talk of bringing back the Supra, started as early as 2007,
with speculation that Toyota would use the 3.5 liter
hybrid V6 they developed for the Toyota FT-HS
but nothing ever came of it.
Then, in 2010 Toyota filed a patent for the Supra name,
and we all freaked out.
Any patent freak knows that once a patent is filed
for a name, a product has to be developed within three years
for them to use that name as patent free 101.
So, this was a good sign for Supra fans.
But then we got the FRS.
The FRS is cool, but don't get me wrong.
It's got 200 horsepower, it's not a Supra.
The trademark patent expired, and for a minute
it seemed like the Supra was gonna be eternally
breaking rocks in hell for literally no reason at all.
What are they doing with these rock crumbles?
Do they make them into cement?
Is that how cement is really made?
I don't know.
What I do know, is that in 2018 Toyota finally teased
the new A90 Supra.
But just like Jesus, when it came back,
it had a German accent.
That was because the A90 had been developed
jointly with BMW.
A lot of people were critical of it when he came out
because it shared a platform with the Z4,
and it didn't come with a manual.
But now, it has been on the market for a few years.
There's a lot, a lot, of aftermarket support.
And the people who actually drive them,
seem to really like them.
I would 100% drive a new Supra.
And, it is a bummer that it doesn't have a manual.
But if we stopped liking cars
that didn't have manual transmissions,
pretty soon, there wouldn't be very many cars left to like.
So for those reasons, the Supra gets to stay out of hell
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