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* Los Melodicos's hit "La Cacerola" is about a man having a car that is ugly and slow, but being still proud of his "saucepan" becuse it still somewhat reliable and attracts a lot of women.
* The [[Barenaked Ladies]] lapse into [[Sarcasm Mode]] with "If I had a million dollars / I'd buy you a K-car / A nice Reliant automobile". Chrysler under Lee Iococca (the same Iococca sacked by Ford after the [[Every Car Is a Pinto|Pinto]]) built these boxy, early front-wheel-drive econoboxes from [[The Eighties|the 1981 model year]] to save the company from ruin during a recession and fuel shortage. They were inexpensive, cheap repair parts were plentiful and fuel mileage was good - but they were much less reliable than their Japanese rivals and needed repairs more often. The ad campaign had the company president personally claim [[We Don't Suck Anymore|if you can find a better car, buy it]] on TV in a [[We Don't Suck Anymore]] reminiscent of Victor Kiam's old-style electric shavers ("it lifts and separates") of the same era. At well under $10k new, they weren't aimed at millionaires by any stretch of imagination. Clunky and laughable by modern standards, but at the time front wheel drive was an innovation and a radical change from the existing Detroit lineup. A decade later? They didn't hold their resale value.▼
* [[Bob Rivers]] does this at least a couple of times; ''My Toyota'' (parody of The Knack's ''My Sharona'') to mock the 2010 Toyota recalls, and ''The Day My Lemon Died'' (parody of Don McLean's ''American Pie'') describing abandoning a broken, smoking vehicle at roadside.
* Diesel's ''[[wikipedia:Sausalito Summernight|Sausalito Summernight]]'' (1981) starts with "We left for Frisco in your Rambler / The radiator running dry / I've never been much of a gambler / And had a preference to fly..." and goes downhill from there, with "The engine's stomping like a disco / We ought to dump it in the bay" as the approximate low point.
▲* The [[Barenaked Ladies]] lapse into [[Sarcasm Mode]] with "If I had a million dollars / I'd buy you a K-car / A nice Reliant automobile". Chrysler under Lee Iococca (the same Iococca sacked by Ford after the [[Every Car Is a Pinto|Pinto]]) built these boxy, early front-wheel-drive econoboxes from [[The Eighties|the 1981 model year]] to save the company from ruin during a recession and fuel shortage. They were inexpensive, cheap repair parts were plentiful and fuel mileage was good - but they were much less reliable than their Japanese rivals and needed repairs more often. The ad campaign had the company president personally claim [[We Don't Suck Anymore|if you can find a better car, buy it]] on TV in a [[We Don't Suck Anymore]] reminiscent of Victor Kiam's old-style electric shavers ("it lifts and separates") of the same era. At well under $10k new, they weren't aimed at millionaires by any stretch of imagination. Clunky and laughable by modern standards, but at the time front wheel drive was an innovation and a radical change from the existing Detroit lineup. A decade later? They didn't hold their resale value.
== Newspaper Comics ==
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