• ladicius
    91·
    17 days ago

    Penis enlargement marketed as such.

  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
    English
    61·
    16 days ago

    …when cars looked cool, even the american ones. Though this stupid ad would’ve convinced me not to buy it.

  • tacosanonymous@mander.xyz
    4·
    17 days ago

    Never heard of this. I guess the marketing didn’t pan out or it fell to shit quickly.

    Edit: I was wrong. For some reason people seemed to like these and production went to ~1993. Weird.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      16 days ago

      I guess you’ve never driven in snow. These were very popular in the Northeast. And the entire had huge room because no tunnel was needed for the driveshaft. Putting the heavy motor and driver at the opposite end of the vehicle drive wheels is the definition of stupid.

      • Schmuppes@lemmy.today
        11·
        16 days ago

        I have driven in snow, and I think that putting the heavy motor and gearbox and driveshafts is an especially strange decision in this case. The problem of the front tires having to deal with both lateral and longitudinal forces is also added. Should have made a mid-engine AWD vehicle!

    • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      16 days ago

      For some context, FWD was novel at the time - oldsmobile considered it a competitive distinction. Other american automakers did not have the tooling to build something similar. Further while Europe was doing transverse powertrains, this used a longitudinal layout front wheel drive, one of the few cars ever designed that way.