What do you think are the most pointless cars ever made? For example, recently, I think that the Mercury Marauder and Saturn Ion Red Line have no purpose in today's market. Also, the old Isuzu Vehicross, and the new Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart and Volkswagen Phaeton are useless in my opinion.

the saturn ion red line has a lot of purpose. it is saturn's "pocket rocket". dodge has the srt-4, ford has the focus, chevrolet has the cavalier (now cobalt).

anyways, i think the most pointless car is any retro car. i can't stand any of the retro cars that have come out. to me, it is a sad attempt by a company that can't think of anymore ideas.

Easy; it's a tie between the Plymouth Breeze and the Plymouth Neon.

Seriously. These cars are what sank Plymouth. The only difference between them and their Dodge equivalents were color options and badging. Oh, and a $500-$1000 premium price tag.

There is NOTHING more useless than an H2. There never will be. Sure, Ferraris aren't practical or easy on gas either, but at least (at least) they don't look crappy.
There was another useless car I was going to mention, but I can't remember it now, after thinking about the H2.

recently, I think that the Mercury Marauder have no purpose in today's market.

Funny you mentioned that because FoMoCo had just pulled the plug on it...

I can think of a car more pointless than an H2.


The Cadillac ESV- making an already pointlessly large car even bigger

The lincoln Aviator. It's a navigator, just a LITTLE bit smaller, and close to the same price.

I cannot stand ultra luxary cars. Maybach, Bently, Rolls Royce, they are all pointless in my book. The reason people buy these cars is to say their wood trim is from the Black Forest and that it cost more than the person their talking to. To me, they're pointless and an absolute waste of money.

Rolls-Royces, Maybachs, and S Class Mercedes-Benzes are not cars to drive. They are cars to be driven in. Hell, if I could have a RECLINING back seat in my mom's 1988 Cavalier, I'd be ecstatic.

Not to mention built in champagne cooler and humidor. :pimp:

The lincoln Aviator. It's a navigator, just a LITTLE bit smaller, and close to the same price.
The Luxury version of the Explorer?

I guess the Maurauder was doing what GM did successfully 8 years ago. Remember?

Oh yeah, the H2, Element,and Subaru Baja top my list.

pointless Scion SB i mean what 18-24 year old thinks its cool to drive a mini van?!?
H2 is crap waste of metal i agree
there are many others but most pointless are those 2

Pointless cars how about the porche suv or the yukon denali or the lincon navigator or the hummer h2

The Ford Ranchero / Chevy El Camino / GMC Caberello.
They looked neat and I liked them, but they made for useless pick up trucks and useless cars, especially the Falcon based Fords of the '60's and the Monte Carlo based GM products of the 80's.

The Ford Ranchero / Chevy El Camino / GMC Caberello.
They looked neat and I liked them, but they made for useless pick up trucks and useless cars, especially the Falcon based Fords of the '60's and the Monte Carlo based GM products of the 80's.

May I disagree? I had the even smaller Dodge Rampage at one point, and while a lemon :banghead: , it served my purposes well for runs to the local home center, etc. It did take two trips to get all the cabinets home for our new kitchen, however. The ad agencies doing Ford/Chevy/Dodge truck ads want you to think that all pick-up owners use them to carry three tons of gravel, but it isn't so. My neighbor pulls a small boat with his Cabellero, and can carry most "homeowner sized" loads.

Most pointless? Both Buick and Pontiac have too many 4-door sedans over too narrow a size range, making for overlap that I do not understand. Exactly which ones need to go is another story.

can any car be pointless, maybe bad looking and hav stupid features, but i think all cars are designed to get from point A to point B, and thats were they start and add to that, like faster, or uglier, and so on.

I had to think about this for a bit, but I'll agree on the H2 being worthless, (people can buy them if they want I could care less, but what the hell is the point of owning them? They eat gas and they can't 4wheel worth a shit...) Also the Scion Xb. Every time I see one I wanna shit on the hood of it. They're SO fucking ugly and the only purpose they serve, AT ALL is to 'try' and spice up a boring line of cars that have reliability as their only strong point. Absolute waste of space, it's a blocky, much larger Japanese wannabe of a Mini-Cooper.

I would have to say the scions. We already have enough stupid poser cars for us to need an entire line devoted to making stupid poser cars. Not to mention they are uglier than any of the current stupid poser cars on the road...

I can think of a car more pointless than an H2.
The Cadillac ESV- making an already pointlessly large car even bigger


Will you ever let this go, there are SUVs out there that are bigger than the ESV, say the Ford Excursion. Not to mention that there are CARS that are more pointless than the ESV. Oh wait I forgot, anything that has a GM badge on it anywhere, is pointless to you anyway.

Most the cars named here have served their purpose, which is to make the automakers money.

The luxury SUVs serve their purpose to haul kids around in style. The luxury SUTs all haul shit around in style. The maybachs and such are to flex your financial muscle in front of everyone. The scion xB is developing a huge following with younger kids, and is a brilliant marketing strategy by toyota, especially with the factory add-ons.

All cars are pointless.. We would all be driving around the same late 80s volvo if taste didn't interfere. People drive what they like, and that's the point. I know 2strokebloke knows what I'm talking about. Some people would probably ride a bike over driving a yugo, but it's all about what you like.

can any car be pointless, maybe bad looking and hav stupid features, but i think all cars are designed to get from point A to point B, and thats were they start and add to that, like faster, or uglier, and so on.

lol just the way i saw ur statement, when you said that, i thought of the xA n the xB, how ugly they are, n why there are 2 more economy cars in a world of civics, corollas, neons, echos, n etc

Pointless cars how about the porche suv or the yukon denali or the lincon navigator or the hummer h2

I agree with all of the above except the Porsche, it may be an SUV but its fucking faaast for one. It will put alot of cars to shame in the performance department. Speaking of shame, how bout the PT Cruiser? now in a convertible version? WTF?

Speaking of shame, how bout the PT Cruiser? now in a convertible version? WTF?

An improvement, I think.

i can't stand the pt cruiser convertible. i just want to rip that bar off when the top is down. it pisses me off whenever i see that stupid bar.

Who cares about the bar, the pt cruiser in general is just freakin ugly.

The Chrysler Crossfire is pretty dumb too, they have a front that's like a squished SL500, and the back of a Civic hatch, what the hell were they thinking?

Most useless cars:

1) VW Phaeton (A Volkswagen for $90,000)
2) Porsche Cayenne ( A high performance SUV, but SUV's have awful handling)
3) Hummer H1( I don't know where to start)
4) Cadillac Escalade EXT ( A luxury truck)

Also the H2, even though it's SLIGHTLY(not more) more justifiable for city use

The Chrysler Crossfire is pretty dumb too, they have a front that's like a squished SL500, and the back of a Civic hatch, what the hell were they thinking?

I'll side with the crossfire being a useless car as it doesn't really serve it's function. It was built with the intention of being one of chrysler's sports coupes and there's nothing really sporty about it. It is slow and handles very sluggishly, so they say.

I would rather own a H1 than a H2. They are both gas guzzlers, and probably not very practical, but the H2 is just a bubbly bloated version of the H1. Probably also downgraded too, there has to be something more wrong than just the looks, when a $80,000+ car becomes a $45,000 car...

Will you ever let this go, there are SUVs out there that are bigger than the ESV, say the Ford Excursion. Not to mention that there are CARS that are more pointless than the ESV. Oh wait I forgot, anything that has a GM badge on it anywhere, is pointless to you anyway.
Excursion as well.

Generally any SUV bigger than a Grand Cherokee.
As a matter of fact any SUV without mud on it is pointless.


So that makes 98% of SUV's pointless.

So that makes 98% of SUV's pointless.

And if that was a guess, you are statistically correct. Only ~2% of SUVs see dirt roads.

IMO, the only SUV that's not pointless is Jeep Wrangler..The rest are just bullshit vehicles.

IMO, the only SUV that's not pointles is Jeep Wrangler..The rest are just bullshit vehicles.
Really all Jeeps and Land Rovers are not pointless- they possess superb off-road ability, as do some of the Japanese SUV's as well as the Porsche Cayenne and Volkswagen Touareg. BUT people use them in a manner that makes them useless :)

This whole thread seems to be like, really really biased. It seems like everyone is just picking cars and trucks that they just don't like.

All cars have some sort of purpose, or the manufacturers wouldn't produce them.

Well this the hate/love forum, so I'd expect it to be biased.

This whole thread seems to be like, really really biased. It seems like everyone is just picking cars and trucks that they just don't like.

All cars have some sort of purpose, or the manufacturers wouldn't produce them.

of course this is biased, look at the name of this thread :screwy:

most threads under the cars in general forum are going to be biased. they are all opinion threads, so learn to accept people's opinions, even if they are biased.

I think the new purpose for SUV's now is for women to not need to buy minivans...

Really all Jeeps and Land Rovers are not pointless- they possess superb off-road ability, as do some of the Japanese SUV's as well as the Porsche Cayenne and Volkswagen Touareg. BUT people use them in a manner that makes them useless :)

Yea, I think you have put it better...;)

I think the new purpose for SUV's now is for women to not need to buy minivans...

..or that men with families were emasculated by driving minivans and desired something that was manly AND could haul the kids around.

In some cases yah, but at least where I live, the mass majority of SUV drivers are women. Don't know why, I'm giving my hypothesis, lol.

..or that men with families were emasculated by driving minivans and desired something that was manly AND could haul the kids around.


Not to mention that you can actually tow something with an SUV.

Hmmm.....I would not call SUV's pointless. Sure most owners never use their capabilities, but that the owner being pointless, not the vehicle. If I was forced to own one vehicle, it would be an SUV, (midsize) because it can haul people, stuff, trailers in a wide variety of conditions. Sounds very useful to me.
If we want pointless, lets look at my 1987 4 cyl Mustang. It combines the worst features of a slow engine, cramped 'cab backwards' 2 door body style, in a wide, cumbersome package with a terrible ride.

Many will disagree with me when I say this, but an elcamino and all alike (Ranchero, Baja, etc., etc.,etc.) are by far the most pointless pieces of shi* ever created! They were never cool and sporty enough to be a functional 2/3 seater, while the bed was a horrible choice because u can't haul anything in it other than groceries, and everybody knows that a truck can never be a hotrod, because the ass end is so light that can't get traction properly. As a conclusion the car fu**** sucks!!!

everybody knows that a truck can never be a hotrod

I beg to differ:

http://www.mcmullenargus.com/gallery/photos/41644_b.jpg

The most pointless cars are Yugos, Mazda 323s, Fiats and any other car that I can't fit into :p

Sour Grapes??? :p

Pointless Cars? try the Isuzu Ascender, Saab 9-7, the Buick Ranier and every other cheap knock off of the Chevy Trailblazer or GMC Envoy (I don't know which new platform version came first)... then I would throw in the new T-Bird, the Toyota Friggin Landcruiser, and really anything made by Kia....

I never knew Toyota made a variant of the
Landcruiser called the "Friggin". The Landcruiser is a proper off-roader, it has its purposes and is extremely reliable.

They swear by them in the desert.

Most useless cars:

1) VW Phaeton (A Volkswagen for $90,000)
2) Porsche Cayenne ( A high performance SUV, but SUV's have awful handling)
3) Hummer H1( I don't know where to start)
4) Cadillac Escalade EXT ( A luxury truck)
The H1: pointless as a passenger vehicle, yes. pointless as a military vehicle? no.