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    Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: GM Heritage Collection Supercharged Aztek SEMA Car For $24,900?

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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    02/03/09

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: GM Heritage Collection Supercharged Aztek SEMA Car For $24,900?
    I'd rock it. If you know what I mean.
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    Image of devilock138 devilock138
    02/03/09

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: GM Heritage Collection Supercharged Aztek SEMA Car For $24,900?
    This is a tough one for me. On one hand, I think Azteks are hideous and I don't trust GM parts bin, but on the other hand it is supercharged and the Aztek is a pretty useful vehicle. It is kinda like a modern family truckster, people will make fun of you for driving it around, but you might pick up Christy Brinkley in it.
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    Image of If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face
    02/03/09

    @devilock138: "If you're thinking about taking the tribe cross-country, this is your automobile."
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    Image of If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face
    02/03/09

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: GM Heritage Collection Supercharged Aztek SEMA Car For $24,900?
    Actually, I'd say I despise every vehicle on that GM minivan platform. The Aztek is atrocious, the Rendezvous was a chintzy turd and the '97-'04 vans were probably the dullest, least-inspired minivans ever sold.


    However, I hate the redesigned, wannabe-SUV vans more than any of them. For all the ballyhoo about how GM product has dramatically improved, these (and the Equinox) prove that GM can still crank out shit. How can you sell the same product for 8 years, put a horrible shnoz on it, change the tailight lenses and call it a new "segment-buster"? And did they really need to sell it under FOUR brand names? Of course, this horrible joke sold poorly, leading GM to brilliantly conclude that the segment was no longer viable and pulled out. Jackasses.

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    Image of Murph Murph
    02/03/09

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: GM Heritage Collection Supercharged Aztek SEMA Car For $24,900?
    You can search the Barrett Jackson Scottsdale auctions and find that it (Lot 15.2). It sold for $8800, including the buyer's premium. Even a giant room full of drunk collectors would pass the pipe on this one.


    [www.barrett-jackson.com]


    Scrap title, too!

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    Image of P161911 probably shoudn't have P161911 probably shoudn't have
    02/03/09

    @Murph: I imagine that this is one of those where the auctioneer started at 20 or 30 grand and just kept going down until someone accidently raised there hand. Oh crap, what did I just buy?!?
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    02/03/09

    @Murph: The scrap title is the cherry on top of this crack sundae. Pass the spoon, er, pipe!
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    02/03/09

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: GM Heritage Collection Supercharged Aztek SEMA Car For $24,900?
    Somebody is hitting the pipe HARD! This thing sold for $8,800 at B-J a couple of weeks ago, and that was borderline crackpipe price. [www.barrett-jackson.com]
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    02/03/09

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: GM Heritage Collection Supercharged Aztek SEMA Car For $24,900?
    This is strange. I hate it, hate it, hate it, but had to say nice price. The museum curator in me made me do it.
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    02/03/09

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: GM Heritage Collection Supercharged Aztek SEMA Car For $24,900?
    This isn't nearly rare enough. Call me when the world's last Aztek is on the block.


    At that time I will promptly buy it and destroy it in Clarksonian fashion.

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    Image of HammSammich HammSammich
    02/03/09

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: GM Heritage Collection Supercharged Aztek SEMA Car For $24,900?
    Where's Hernán Cortés when you need him.
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    Image of Ash78, cube farmer Ash78, cube farmer
    02/03/09

    @HammSammich: Ouch. That calls for some Neil Young.


    They came dancing across the show floor
    With their minivans and tents
    Looking for a genre
    That they wanted to invent


    And of course they showed at SEMA
    With body kits and chrome
    In the halls they often wondered
    Why nobody took them home

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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    02/03/09

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: GM Heritage Collection Supercharged Aztek SEMA Car For $24,900?
    Elhigh's Truism of the Day:


    No matter how much power it has,
    Nothing can outrun Ugly.

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    Image of Iron-Balls Minardi Iron-Balls Minardi
    02/03/09

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: GM Heritage Collection Supercharged Aztek SEMA Car For $24,900?
    I'll jump in for the minority here.
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    Image of Iron-Balls Minardi Iron-Balls Minardi
    02/03/09

    @Iron-Balls McGinty: Damn it, I guess that shows what type of addled people would vote nice price.
    In some ways this would be like buying the sweetest Edsel ever. Something as reviled as the Aztek will be cool, and probably valuable, at some point. If for no other reason other than those damn kids on my lawn want to screw with me.
    Of course, I feel like the Aztek gets a little bit of a bad rap. While probably not something I would seek out, it was somewhat innovative, had some interesting features.
    Being boring is more of a crime than being a little funky.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    02/03/09

    @Iron-Balls McGinty: I agree, which is why I think this may wind up being a nice price. The Aztek was a great concept vehicle. Its application to a production car was more than the tastes of most people could handle.


    I wouldn't be surprised if Azteks are more sought after in 40 or 50 years.

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    Image of HurtsSoGood HurtsSoGood
    02/03/09

    @engineerd is Switzerland: Yeah, right. Just like the Pinto, the Vega, and the Citation. Oh, and the first gen Ford Grenada with the CrapTastic (TM) straight six.
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    Image of jasonof2000 jasonof2000
    02/03/09

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: GM Heritage Collection Supercharged Aztek SEMA Car For $24,900?
    I'm just going to say it... I like the Aztek, yes it is ugly, yes it is pointless but at least it isn't bland.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    02/03/09

    @jasonof2000: *snaps fingers*


    Guards, have that man taken out back and shot.

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    Image of Feds Feds
    02/03/09

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: GM Heritage Collection Supercharged Aztek SEMA Car For $24,900?
    Even if it were the V8/RWD Asstek, I still wouldn't pay $25k for it. Pipier than the pipiest pipe I've ever piped.


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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    02/03/09

    @Feds: Hey! I posted that one in the last discussion on Aztekz! You obviously found more info. I had no idea it was a V8 RWD version. Somehow, that makes me like it much, much more.


    I actually think that if GM had made the Aztek like that one, it might not have been as wildly reviled.

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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    02/03/09

    @Feds: That's not too bad. Of course, the front end was still hideous and sent small children screaming in fear and the back end looked like someone over-Bangelized it.
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    Image of Timtoolman, sporadically speaking Timtoolman, sporadically speaking
    02/03/09

    @Deartháir discusses blown trannies just for Google AdSense: THERE'S a vote of confidence, "might not have been as wildly (or widely) reviled". Someone at GM just felt like he got a compliment, of sorts.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    02/03/09

    @Timtoolman, now with power tools!: I believe we could submit that to Wiki as a definition of "damnation by faint praise", don't you think?
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    Image of Ash78, cube farmer Ash78, cube farmer
    02/03/09

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: GM Heritage Collection Supercharged Aztek SEMA Car For $24,900?
    Crack pipe, all things considered.


    But if I were eccentric and rich (halfway there already), I'd buy this just so I could have some visual aides to show my future children where--and how--the US auto industry screwed up. I'd also submit it to explain a little about SEMA, too.

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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    02/03/09

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: GM Heritage Collection Supercharged Aztek SEMA Car For $24,900?
    OK, I'll bite. It is a factory concept car. If I bought this I could say that I own the concept car that symbolized the decline of western civilization.
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    Image of Rust-MyEnemy Rust-MyEnemy
    02/03/09

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: GM Heritage Collection Supercharged Aztek SEMA Car For $24,900?
    "...just acquired from the GM Heritage collection..."


    Sounds like buyers remorse.

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