11 COOLEST Versions of Boring Cars

- We love all the

cars

here at Donut, it's our thing. But let's face it, not all

cars

are super exciting on paper. But sometimes, automakers go crazy with Jonathon and decide to make some really souped-up

versions

of their most bearish base god model. Put on your Old Navy polo and your fastest pair of Oakleys, because this is the list of the

coolest

versions

of the most

boring

cars. This is... - List D. (crash sound) ♪ Cobalt SS ♪ - We start this list with the Chevy of the mid-2000s. In the mid-2000s, American automakers were rocked by all these front-wheel drive Japanese tuned cars that took a bite out of the American market.

Like other manufacturers at the time, Chevy responded! An attractive version of their otherwise less exciting front-wheel drive Cobalt. Enter Nolan's dream car, the Cobalt Super Sport. This... (hoarse breathing) This compact sports car emerged at the end of 2004. It initially manufactured 205 HRSPRS with a two-liter supercharged four-cylinder engine. The only transmission it came with was a smooth, five-speed manual design, which I think is pretty good. But years later, in 2008, Chevy released a better Cobalt SS with a 2.4-liter turbocharged ecotech engine, making 260 horsepower! The Cobalt has a lot of love among enthusiasts, with one automotive journalist even calling it "the best compact sports car ever made by General Motors" and a potential future classic.

And how could it not be? It has a damn boost gauge. the A-pillar and two-tone leather bucket seats straight out of the damn Pep Boys. I bet you could put on an Abercrombie shirt, play some Hoobastank so loud in this car, and make every girl in DELiA's catalog lose their minds. how cool you are (crash sound) ♪ VW Golf Country ♪ I'm going to be honest with you. Many of you know I'm a big Golf Stanley, okay? , the base model Golf has always been, you know, kind of a car, it's an Econobox, that's all. It's a great Econobox, but an Econobox nonetheless! 57 horsepower at the wheels, for the love of Peter, you can't do much with that, believe me, I've tried, maybe an R32, Golf R.

It's fucked up for Daddy-O. These are all sick versions of the Golf. But they aren't my pick for this list because they aren't the craziest. My choice is the Volkswagen Golf Country. Do you like your Golfs with bumpers and skid plates? Because a gift awaits you brother. This decked out Mark Two was made for medium off-road driving. And what does that mean? Are we talking little baby dunes? It has an improved ground clearance of 8.3 inches, a long-travel suspension, and synchromesh all-wheel drive. The Gulf Country was quite capable off-road with the standard eight-valve Golf engine making a stout 97 horsepower.

But this is not about HRSPRS, off-roading is not about HRSPRS. These are protective bars. And this one didn't just come with front and rear crash bars, in case you run into a bull and then back into another bull. It also had little bars on the headlights, okay? Check out these bull bars. (heavy metal music) These are the cutest little bull bars I've ever seen. (crash sound) ♪ Trailblazers SS ♪ - The Chevys of the mid-2000s, again, were nothing to write home about. Unless your mother's name is Chevy and you wrote to ask her for a few thousand dollars for some sick basswood sticks with top-quality leather tassels.

Trust me. No one was waiting in line to buy an entry-level Pioneer. But... In 2006... Chevy decided to have a little fun and put an "SS" badge on the old decommissioned police truck. Because let's be absolutely 100% real. Only people who look like off-duty cops drive pioneer vehicles. Under the hood, the Trailblazer SS had the six-liter LS2 engine that was standard in the damn Corvettes of the era. It had a better differential for better launch and came in rear-wheel drive versions, so you could just smash donuts all day... all day long... This car was made for donuts. Apparently it handles pretty well too.

Like other notable pioneers, the Donner group, this thing devours the track like it's human flesh. The Trailblazer SS was the first time Chevy put the SS badge on an SUV. To prove it, they can look like an off-duty cop, but still drive like an on-duty cop. (crash sound) ♪ Fiat 500 Abarth ♪ - The next car comes from the shoe-shaped country where the streets are full of spaghetti and the puppets are liars. Speaking of Pinocchio. He is italian. It's not a big part of the story, but that's where he lives. Many very powerful and vascular cars come from Italy, but none of those words correctly describe the Fiat 500.

Although it is cute... and it comes in several of the cutest colors you've ever seen and it looks like a cute little, little bug. It's not known for being very fun to drive. But fortunately, Abarth put its grease into all of these cars. The Abarth 500 come heated directly from the dealer. They have a lower ride height. They have a five-speed manual and a damn turbo. All in a car, the size of a large dollhouse. I could literally probably park one of these on its side in my second largest dollhouse, the Fiat 500 Abarth's four-pump turbo engine, makes 160 HRS in a car that weighs just over 2,500 pounds.

Which means you can spin it and zoom, zoom, zoom all day long and have fun doing it. Max used to have one, and when we contacted him for comment, he sent his lawyers after us, threatening to "Sue us to death if we put it in another video." You edit the videos, Max, you put yourself in the video. So stop doing that or stop suing us. But after months of back and forth, we received an official letter from his secretary saying, "The sound was my favorite part" of driving the Abarth. "With an emphasis on pop and bang." This car has lots of pops and explosions and a great sound.

It sounds like a motorcycle. It's because it didn't have a silencer. The turbo is the silencer. The goat version is the Abarth 695 Biposto. That is, two sauces. This version increases power to 186 HRSPRS and reduces weight to an incredible 2,198 pounds. Making it the fastest Abarth ever made. I will win. (crash sound) ♪ VW Beetle RSi ♪ - When the New Beetle came out in the late '90s, people went crazy over it. People's cars were nice, but after a while you started seeing them everywhere. And finally it was like, "Oh! Get these bugs out of my eyes!" "Get these bugs out of my eyes!" They came out with some very interesting variants of the New Beetle.

I'm talking about the Turbo. Yeah, I really liked them. And they also made a turbo diesel version, if you want to ride easy while looking like a cute little bug. But... What if none of those models make your beard move? Do you want to spend $80,000 on a Beetle that isn't a Porsche? Well, you're in luck because Volkswagen made some super popular versions called... The Beetle RSi. This bug had the R32's 3.2-liter VR6, one of my favorite engines of all time! Offering an improved vascular 221 HRS. It also had a Remus exhaust, the six-speed manual transmission, and all-wheel drive.

All of that makes for a very sick Beetle. I made 250 of these fat bugs, so you probably won't even see one, much less drive one. .Guess I'll just keep driving my take (crash sound) ♪ Saturn Vue Redline ♪ A Saturn on the list? Are you pulling my chain, Pumphrey? No. The only time I pull the chains is when I'm flushing. One of my many priceless, vintage, high tank, chain post toilets. The Saturn Vue is one of those cars from the mid-2000s that seemed futuristic when it came out, but seeing it now is like seeing a photo of yourself as a kid and thinking you looked so cool at the time, but 15 years later. later, and you say, "Wow, what was I thinking?" The base Saturn Vue came with a small four-cylinder that made 143 horsepower or a Nemic GMV6, which made 181 HRSPRS.

But under the hood of the Saturn Vue Redline is Honda's Pilot's 3.5-liter V6. Alright? This car has Vtech. The Honda 24-valve dual overhead cam engine with 250 HRSPRS was a big step in the right direction. All in a compact crossover package. Plus, you get Vtech sounds from an SUV. Plus, it was made on fucking Saturn. That's the only planet with decorations. It looks like basketball going through hoops. And no, I do not consider moons to be decorations, because moons are the mascots of a planet. (crash sound) ♪ Dodge Omni GLH ♪ We've talked a little about the Dodge Omni GLH before.

If you want, you can watch our episode about Carroll Shelby. I'll link it at the end of this video. It is one of my favorites. I'm pretty sure I cry with him. But in the early 1980s, Dodge had this neat little front-wheel drive hatchback called the Omni. And it was... Very slow. Then Lee Iacocca brought in his friend, Carol Shelby, and Shelby said, "Let me, let me get my greasy knuckles on it." And Dodge said, "Sure, buddy, every time your knuckles get greased, it's a good thing." And then they made a car with perhaps the

coolest

name of the '80s, the Dodge Omni GLH.

Which stood for Goes Like Hell. Shelby increased the HRSPRS on this 2,200-pound bunny from under 100 to up to 142, using the Shelby Charger's 2.2-liter turbo, but it was the last 500 of these that are really cool. Goes Like Hell Some More. They increased the power to 176 HRSPRS. It had explosive acceleration, tons of torque steering and amazing braking due to its low weight, and it drove like a Barbie Jeep those guys at Hard Plumbing Grind. Co they did, which is the opposite of

boring

. Those guys at Grind Hard probably know all about my old tank-top, chain-post toilets, and we're looking for a toilet sponsor for our new office space, so give us a call. up (crash sound) ♪ Rambler Rebel ♪ This next car is...

Old. I didn't even want to put it on my sacred D list. I don't know anything about these old '50s cars. So I'm going to tell Nolan Jay Sykes, a handsome muscle car sweetheart, because I feel like he's the only one who can really do this car justice. And if we're in a video together, he feels like we're hanging out. - Nash is a company that has been around for a long, long time. They used to make this car called the Rambler, which was an Econobox that was made and sold at super cheap prices to help America get out of the post-war crisis.

And that was precisely what he did. The Rambler sold like hot cakes. And that's saying a lot because pancakes were one of the only foods invented at that time. The base model came with an 82-horsepower inline-six engine that could accelerate from zero to 60 in 21 seconds. (laughs) But in 1956, they added a much larger 190-horsepower Nash Ambassador big-block V8 to the compact Rambler, and made what was arguably the first muscle car. Back to you, James. (crash sound) ♪ Toyota Tacoma X-Runner ♪ - This one is a bit of a stretch because I wouldn't consider the base Tacoma to be boring.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that this is a cool truck. It's a cooler version of an already cool truck. I'm digressing. This truck is extreme. And you know it, because there's an X. And it's not experimental or extreme if you use the E. This thing has the same 236 HRSPRS engine as other Tacomas. But he was also packed with delicious treats, treats, and treats that make him a really cool Daddy-O cat. It has Bilstein shocks and limited slip. It has a six-speed manual transmission and... a damn hood. And apparently, this X-runner could outperform a Cadillac XLR in slalom and braking tests.

Alright? An XLR, like the Detroit version of the Corvette. (crash sound) ♪ Supercharged Toyota Previa ♪ Look, I hate having two Toyotas in a row, but let's be real. Toyota makes a lot of really cool cars, but also a lot of really boring cars. And lots of really cool versions of those boring cars. I own the fun version of a boring Toyota. This is one of the reasons why Toyota is successful. But let me ask you a question. When you think of European supercars, what do you think of? You probably think mid-engine, forced induction, and all-wheel drive. What if I told you I'm not describing a Bugatti or a McLaren?

But rather a Japanese egg van, Privia SC. SC means 158 superfed buff horse eggs. Improvement of 23 horses compared to the previous stock. They are supercharged! Great, you say. But here's the trick. That supercharged engine is sandwiched between the axles, making this egg van a mid-engine rocket. So if you live in the '90s and have to take a bunch of your kids and their friends to a pop punk band practice or something, you'll be hard-pressed to find a cooler egg van to do it in.(crash sound) ♪ Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution ♪ Wow! Here we are at number one. As time goes.

It feels like we were at number six a few minutes ago. You probably saw this coming. There was no way to end this list without mentioning the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution. For 10... For nine generations, this car dominated rally championships, street racing and our hearts. It is one of the most iconic cars in history. But what you're probably forgetting is that the Evo is based on a completely sensible commuter car. Just plain old Lancey Boy. And at some point we have him here as Mirage. This car, we'll call him Lance, is the nerd who was picked on in high school and grew up to be a tight-knit billionaire.

When the first Evo came out in 1992, the base Lancer was a front-wheel drive vehicle that made about 100 horsepower. But the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution increased it to 244 HRSPRS and abandoned front-wheel drive for all-wheel drive. The Evo's iconic 4G63 engine can be modified to make tons more power. If you can figure out what has been described to me as Evo tuning voodoo, there are many examples that make over 1000 horsepower with a four-cylinder engine. Do you know how crazy that is? And once you add the all-wheel drive, the big ol' fenders, the hood, the big wing. This is a completely different car than the original Lancer.

But you don't need me to tell you how sick Evo is. Watch our Up To Speed ​​episode about it. Thanks for watching Donut Media. If you liked it, hit the subscribe button and the notification bell. Do you want to know more about the Evo? Watch this episode of Up To Speed. Want to learn more about Carroll Shelby and Omni GLHS? Good luck in high school. Watch this episode of Up To Speed. I love you. (applause)