Topic: Friday Fun: Icons of the 1990s

[Mike]

No way, the NSX or the Supra. The NSX had a chassis tuned by Senna and the Supra brought the 2J motor over to the colonies, which is singlehandedly the most tunable motor in the world. The Civic/teg were cute and all, but the Omni GLH-S did it all years before them. If anything, the 240SX and the Corolla GTS(AE-86) could be thanked for turning the world onto sport compacts and the JDM market, it became cool and affordable to swap out the dog KA24DE in the 240 to the much superior SR20DET from the JDM market.

The Supra and NSX aren't sport compacts though. And the AE86/240SX (both of which I loved, and I owned two of the former and one of the latter) didn't really become cool until around 2000 or thereabouts. They weren't iconic in the '90s.

You know.....I think you maybe right....there was a time in high school when having a Civic with a fart can was as cool as you could be. The time of the true rice rockets....  I was wrong, the rwd pocket rockets came into their time in the 2000's, when the drift craze started.

Yup, exactly why I left them out.

[tinnemeneer]

If this is the list of the ninetees, I'm sure glad they're over. What's perhaps worse is that I couldn't think of any car I liked better.
Not my favourite era.  Didn't care much for ninetees music either.
I'm glad the naughties improved things a bit.

[Silverjesus]

Sad to see the Ford Probe not make the list

[bensonc]

No love for the world's fastest sport sedan made by a non-german company?! Ok ok, so it was 1989 but still - Ford Taurus SHO should get some kind of special mention here as the first true sports sedan for any NA car manf. I believe the only sedan that was faster that year was the M5.

Civic/Teg has to be the winner on this list - pretty much single handedly started the sport compact revolution.

Instead of Taurus, the SVT contour take my vote....  I watch too much BTCC back in the time and was crazy about 4 door sport car

[PJ]

Good list but I would swap the Explorer for the original Grand Cherokee.   The Explorer may have sold more the Jeep was better and more stylish in every way. 

[WRX_Pilot]

Because, as mentioned, it lead to the retro car craze that saw the 'new' mini, thunderbird, fiat 500, camaro, challenger and mustang.

It was a big deal for VW at the time.

Don't forget, *gasp*, the PT Cruiser!  There's still usually a gang of them dressed up with stick-on-everything at car shows.

I would also have to give a nod to the SHO... I still want an original 89-91 with a stick.

And I blame the Dodge Ram for starting the huge ugly grille competition still going on to this day, except the disease has spread to cars as well.

[PJ]

Because, as mentioned, it lead to the retro car craze that saw the 'new' mini, thunderbird, fiat 500, camaro, challenger and mustang.

It was a big deal for VW at the time.

Don't forget, *gasp*, the PT Cruiser!  There's still usually a gang of them dressed up with stick-on-everything at car shows.

I would also have to give a nod to the SHO... I still want an original 89-91 with a stick.

And I blame the Dodge Ram for starting the huge ugly grille competition still going on to this day, except the disease has spread to cars as well.

The PT came out in 2000 as a 2001 model.  It wasn't a 90's car.   

[johngenx]

There are some SWEET machines from the 90s.  NSX, Supra, RX-8, 300ZX, Miata.  It was the time of "Japanese Performance" and thanks to the great build quality of many of those cars, they're still awesome to buy and own today.

[WRX_Pilot]

Because, as mentioned, it lead to the retro car craze that saw the 'new' mini, thunderbird, fiat 500, camaro, challenger and mustang.

It was a big deal for VW at the time.

Don't forget, *gasp*, the PT Cruiser!  There's still usually a gang of them dressed up with stick-on-everything at car shows.

I would also have to give a nod to the SHO... I still want an original 89-91 with a stick.

And I blame the Dodge Ram for starting the huge ugly grille competition still going on to this day, except the disease has spread to cars as well.

The PT came out in 2000 as a 2001 model.  It wasn't a 90's car.

I'm aware, I was just pointing out it was one of the big ones that resulted from the beetle.

[Scaerio]

Volvo 850 could be an interesting addition -- as it is the pioneer of Volvo's switch to FWD.  Also strange to see Subaru Impreza WRX, especially in STi guise, and Legacy Outback missing from this list...

[PJ]

Because, as mentioned, it lead to the retro car craze that saw the 'new' mini, thunderbird, fiat 500, camaro, challenger and mustang.

It was a big deal for VW at the time.

Don't forget, *gasp*, the PT Cruiser!  There's still usually a gang of them dressed up with stick-on-everything at car shows.

I would also have to give a nod to the SHO... I still want an original 89-91 with a stick.

And I blame the Dodge Ram for starting the huge ugly grille competition still going on to this day, except the disease has spread to cars as well.

The PT came out in 2000 as a 2001 model.  It wasn't a 90's car.

I'm aware, I was just pointing out it was one of the big ones that resulted from the beetle.

Sorry. Misread your post.

[mixmanmash]

Volvo 850 could be an interesting addition -- as it is the pioneer of Volvo's switch to FWD.  Also strange to see Subaru Impreza WRX, especially in STi guise, and Legacy Outback missing from this list...

WRX and STi's weren't available in the North American market till 2000.  Sure, they were in Japan, but then you would have to add many other cars like Nissan Skyline GT-R.