These Are The Cars Readers Deemed The Most Soulless

Does a brand require extra money to trouble designing any kind of soul into its vehicles? Or have bean counters forced automakers to take out every little bit of character, leading greyscale appliance-on-wheels econo-rides that also barely manage to be inexpensive. In that spirit, I asked you all last Sunday what cars are essentially the most soulless? And boy, was there ever a pattern.

The worst offenders making these production-ready soulless machines on wheels, whether latest or old, appeared to come from Toyota, Chevrolet, Stellantis, and Tesla. The particular models placed under our metaphorical guillotine were actually a number of the most inexpensive they offered. Egg-shapes on wheels were decidedly not very attractive, nor invigorating. It isn’t like drivers have asked for each automotive on the road to be a murals like that of Auburns, Cords, and Duesenbergs. Is it really so hard to place only one thing right into a automotive that might make it less of an appliance? And no, screens, irrespective of the dimensions, don’t help.

On that note, listed here are essentially the most soulless cars in line with your fellow Jalops. And do not tell me I used the identical photo twice within the comments. I purposely used the 2 incredibly similar, near-identical images to assist prove all of our points.

The Ford Taurus needless to say, and most AT Fords from the 80’s (Escort) and 90’s were horrible soulless little boxes.

A variety of 90’s vehicles were actually terrible ruination of something that was once fun, just like the Eagle. You could not even tell the difference between a few of these cars at a distance.

And let’s throw Saturn and Geo under that bus while we’re at it. All of them looked the identical.

From Nunya Nacho

The brand new Mitsubishi Eclipse crossover abomination. Just look how they massacred my boy

From Alex Nicastro

Camry was the primary automotive that felt entirely like an appliance to me. Had no steering feel, no road feel, no excitement, but was perfectly competent at every part. I dont think there’s anything improper with that for a day by day driver, I currently have a soulless vw id4 as my day by day and a phenomenal 68 corvair as my backup.

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Anything with a Toyota badge.

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Toyota Camry. Yeah, there are TRD editions, etc, but at its heart it’s nothing greater than an appliance. It generates as much excitement in me as my toaster, if not less. Every Camry I’ve ever seen has been beige, no matter its paint color.

From Gabriel S, Derek Collier, and Todd

You have got not experienced automotive depression until you drive a Toyota Vitz.

When the largest and top-of-the-line automotive firms on the earth designs a automotive this terrible you already know they did it on purpose.

From Vanillasludge

Dodge Caliber. I drove one as a rental and it made my Corolla feel exciting compared. While Toyota is probably going the very first thing that individuals consider, I might argue Dodge’s appliance cars fit this query higher. Not only are they boring to start with, but they are usually not reliable. Every time, something breaks (it’ll), you are feeling increasingly more of your soul siphoned away from you. A minimum of Toyota doesn’t break down, thus helping you maintain your sanity.

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Either a Dodge Journey or a Dodge Caliber. Envisioning what form of sick person would purchase considered one of these calamities makes my skin itch

From Giantsgiants and Matt Puntney

I racked my brain to provide you with the reply, and after ruling out the Chrysler K-cars, Ford Aspire, Geo/Chevy Metro, the Mitsubishi Mirage, and so many more…

I feel that I’ve narrowed it right down to our “winner”.

The Jeep Patriot.

Little greater than a Dodge Caliber cosplaying as a downsized XJ Cherokee, nothing about it had any amount of soul, charm, or personality.

Whether we’re talking about it being a nasty rip-off of a greater product, the blandest interior ever conceived of, the uninspired driving dynamics, or the rest about it, it’s not possible to search out it’s soul. Even it’s platform mate, the Compass, at the least had enough imagination behind it to be a mis-shaped lump of a thing, which supplies it character (and due to this fact at the least a touch of a soul).

The Patriot is appliance and marketing tool, and never even good ones, due to this fact proving it has no soul.

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Jeep Patriot. Just saw one the opposite day and… it’s like a void on wheels.

From MustangIIMatt and DieselWagonGoon

Chevrolet Celebrity. Its a brick, its just boxy boring automotive.

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Most soulless vehicle in history- Chevy Celebrity. You most definitely didn’t feel like a celeb driving one. As inspiring as a bowl of warm oatmeal. No a part of that automotive was any stronger or higher than it absolutely needed to be.

From Scott The Stagehand and J-Wins

I’d say every automotive sold with a CVT since the manufacture was too low-cost to engineer the automotive to be efficient and still drive nicely. That will include most Nissans and Subarus from the last (I’m guessing) 15 years. They do not drive like cars.

From David S

Allow me to suggest the Chevy Equinox. Give it some thought – when was the last time you thought of an Equinox? When was the last time an informed buyer you knew said “I would like an Equinox”? What does the Equinox stand for? Is it sporty? Nope. Is it cool and trendy? Nope. Is it progressive? Nope. Is it reliable? Nope. Is it the most effective at anything? Nope. What’s it? It’s only a blob of a crossover that Chevy dealers can push out the door. It is the Big Mac of crossovers. Not great, not horrible, but man they move a bunch of them (this coming from a man who’s wild enough to benefit from the occasional Big Mac).

From Gordon S

Like half the cars on the road, especially crossovers. Corolla Cross, just about anything with Cross in its name. Nearly all Nissans except the Z now, Any Dodge that is not Challenger or Charger, the Ford Escape, Edge or whatever… CR-V, the Traxxas, Equinox, Traverse…. Just appliances….

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Whatever mid size crossover SUV chevy sells this week. I truthfully cannot consider the name. Trax?, Trek? Trailblazer? Equinox? They appear to point out up, head for the underside of the segment and are gone in two years, leaving nothing to mark their passing but a trail of recall paperwork and rental automotive receipts. If I used to be running from the mob, the FBI and ICE all at the identical time, I’d rent considered one of these and go hide in a wall mart parking zone.

From Enrique and Dave

Any of those similarly shaped lumps from Tesla.

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Tesla Model 3. It has the profile of a Little Tykes Cozy Coupe and is occupied by NPCs completely unaware of the road and vehicles and pedestrians around them.

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Tesla 3 and Y. I truthfully cannot tell a 3 from a Y more often than not. They’re to most boring-looking cars on the road. Not pretty, but not ugly. All of them look the identical, and so lots of them are white. They’re as common as dirt. Washers and dryers have more personality than these generic blobs. Sitting inside one is as sterile as a doctors office – not somewhere I’d wish to be for any length of time. They’re the black-and-white generic products they used to sell on the food market.

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Tesla Model Y, hands down. The automotive itself is only a bloated copy of the Model 3 (which was only a squished version of the Model X) apart from the parts now borrowed from the Cucktruck. The back and high tail light bar makes me consider an old man together with his pants pulled as much as his nips. Interior is boring with glued on iPad and no physical controls.

All the things about it’s boring derivative and getting old and drained and borrowed.

From Pernicious BM, Winter Cat, Troy Dawson, and Thomas Hajicek

Nissan Rogue, any generation. It is often following whatever styling trend is going on on the given time, will get you from place to position, but is about as exciting as a $30 coffee maker.

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It’s a vehicle almost without qualities. It just is. No one is a Rogue enthusiast. It doesn’t do anything particularly well. You purchase it because your credit rating wasn’t ok for a RAV 4 (itself not a very interesting automotive).

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Soulless vehicles being sold today- Ford Escape and Nissan Rogue. Rental fleet darlings that are purchased on price alone. All of the character of a slice of Wonder bread. When purchased by non-rental fleets a suspect most buyers just want an excellent price, not an excellent automotive.

From Scoobie2, Neal Richards, and J-Wins

I just (yesterday) got back from a 2,400 mile road trip in a rental Corolla. Not only was it unattractive outside, the inside wasn’t a nice place to be. I’ve never cared for Toyota’s ergonomics and this didn’t change my mind. The steering had no feedback and the engine had the soundtrack of an oscillating fan. When one shut the doors, it gave the impression of clanging two cans together. That said, it had 40,000 miles on it, which is like 60,000 on a non-rental vehicle, and it had no issue going over mountain passes on I-70. While I ended up not totally hating it, it was soulless and I might never own one

From Todd

Dodge Journey. For those who pull up next to at least one at a light-weight and roll down your window, you may hear it softly sobbing to itself.

From Buddy S