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What Fairly Common Car Have You Somehow Never Seen Before?
What Fairly Common Car Have You Somehow Never Seen Before?-July 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:12:20

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Seeing an unfamiliar car for the first time is one of life’s most underrated little pleasures, like watching the sun rise over the ocean or . What fairly common car have you somehow never seen in person before?

Allow me to backtrack. Yesterday I was doing a little research on Mitsubishi’s history upon the news that the Japanese automaker was . I knew Chrysler used to sell a lot of Mitsubishis as captive imports, particularly during the whole Diamond Star Motors affair. But when I recall the products of that partnership, my mind typically goes straight to sports cars like the Eclipse and 3000GT. What I didn’t know was that the Mitsubishi L200/Triton compact pickup was also offered as the Dodge Ram 50 from 1979 to 1994.

More critically, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Ram 50 in the flesh. At least, not that I can remember. Surely they were out there when I was really young, I just never knew to pay attention. But I can say with certainty I have not happened across a Dodge-branded Mitsubishi truck in my travels over the last, say, 15 years — or else I wouldn’t have been so surprised to learn this yesterday.

That brings us back to today’s question: What’s a reasonably common car that’s somehow avoided you at every turn, whose existence you’ve never been able to validate with your own eyes?

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