Some vehicles are great but suffer from the most unfortunate timing. The Chevy Monza could have been greater had it been launched in the 1960s or after the Malaise Era ended. Buyers didn’t get a rotary, but as large as a 350 cubic inch V8s that made a smoking 125 HP.
Today, we asked you what good cars were released at the wrong time. There were a lot of great answers, but one was really creative from Sid Bridge:
The USS Enterprise NCC-1701-B.
They really should have waited until after Tuesday.
In Star Trek Generations, the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-B departed for her maiden voyage with the crew of the decommissioned USS Enterprise-A aboard for a publicity stunt. The ship didn’t have a medical staff, photon torpedoes, or a tractor beam, as those were to be delivered the following Tuesday. That was supposed to be okay because the ship wasn’t supposed to do any real starship stuff, but that’s not what happened.
This morning, Mark Tucker got into the Halloween spirit by doing a Shitbox Showdown between two hearses. I love the story VanGuy told here:
When I first started my (now-defunct) DJ business, my parents rejected the idea of buying a hearse for moving the equipment and adopting the slogans “Party til you’re dead” or “Life is short, party now!”
Adrian gave his professional opinion on the new Kia Tasman and yeah, it’s not exactly a looker. Dottie got me with this one:
If I needed to give an argument for the Chicken tax this would be Exhibit A. It looks like a solid competitor to swoop up the Jeep Gladiator crowd but yeesh K backwards N I mean Kia fumbled the bag hard with this design.
Yesterday, Jason published a piece about a very confusing viral Range Rover video. He pitched the video to me to see if I could make anything of it. Nope, I continue to be just as baffled as he is. Scaled29 sums it up well, I guess:
I have heard of this happening. You think you’re with *it*, but one day you realize that they changed what *it* is. Now what you are with isn’t *it*, and what’s *it* seems probably strange and foreign to you.
Skibidi toilet, now please make sure you don’t have an Ohio night!
(Topshot: Paramount Global)
any lower decks fans here?
Love it.
A running joke I heard when Star Trek Generations came out was that the real captain was also arriving on Tuesday. Cameron destroyed the Ferrari and the Enterprise B and maybe that bus in Speed.
The Enterprise B was definitely a looker, but that bulge in the engineering section screams “mid cycle refresh”.
Sad story behind that, too – The Excelsior was one of my favorite starships and they used the model for the Enterprise B and added the bulge so they could damage the ship without harming the original Excelsior model. Except the glue they used for the bulge was too strong and ended up ruining the original Excelsior model anyway.
Poor Excelsior. Scotty sabotaged it, Sulu told his helmsman to fly it apart, Kang blasted it with torpedoes… no respect for a great ship at all.
I always loved the Excelsior class even though it gets no respect in the Star Trek universe. It’s got great 80’s art-deco revival lines.
Sulu barking “Fly her apart then!!!” is one of my favorite Trek lines ever.
The bulge was to house additional heat exchangers for the new refrigerated cupholders on the bridge.
Refrigerated cupholders, but still no seatbelts.
They were installing airbags on Tuesday.
Generations was not the best movie in the franchise but there was still a lot of good stuff there. “Don’t tell me…Tuesday” (as only Shatner could deliver the line) is right up there.
Scotty giving Kirk the side-eye as Cameron decides what to do… “Is there something wrong with your chair?” Awesome moment.
It is true it wasn’t but it was better than Nemisis, I loved seeing the D on screen, sad when they crashed her (sorry Troy).
Nemesis was a disaster, what a shame for that great cast/crew to go out on such a turd. Picard season 3 was exactly what us nerds really craved, and a perfect send off.
1000% agreed, Terry Maltis gave us everything, now for ST: Legacy, sadly we may never see that show
Yes, many of the engineers at the Advanced Starship Design Bureau previously worked at Ford on the Excursion program.
Umm, there was a Monza in the 60s, and a better Monza at that: The Corsair Monza!
There were also two Corvair-based concept sports cars, the Monza GT and Monza SS, that did the auto show circuit in 1962, plus three further generations of FWD Chevrolet Monzas (a rebadged Opel Ascona in Brazil in the ’80s and ’90s, a rebadged Opel Corsa in Mexico in the ’90s and ’00s, and a rebadged and de-contented Buick Excelle being sold in China right now)
Hey, my first COTD!
I’d like to thank the academy and everyone who made this possible.
Mine too! I guess I have to thank Grandpa Simpson most though. And of course the readers!
Respectfully, that person was actually channeling Grampa Simpson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGrfhsxxmdE
I tellz ya, I had a Corvair Monza umpteen years ago. It was a 1966 I think and it would go faster than a Mustang with an automatic. Ohhh, that was some sweet gummable car. Mmhhmmmm, ZZZzzzz
I drive a Corvair Monza every day. It doesn’t have any of that newfangled BlueTube nonsense or those driver air bubble things. It gets 22mpg, sonny, and that was back in 1964. After that the world starting going to hell. Now get off my lawn so I can clean up this big oil spot in my driveway.
Take your onion already!
‘Cause the Kaiser had stolen our word “quoting.”