- We love classic cars and car companies love bringing them back, but if you ask me,
they're not bringing back nearly enough of the right
cars that they should be, so we put together a
list of 10 classic cars that need to come back, or else. This is... - [Announcer] D-List. - Before we get into today's episode, I have a very special
announcement to make. D-List. And therefore, me, James
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there who ever dreamed of being a spokesman for something. Hey, listen, you nail that pour. What a man. (bell ringing) - James is going in for his
first pour of the night. The moment we've all been waiting for. Shaky on the approach. He's having some trouble with the hood. Come on, James, I'm rooting for you. (James groans) Careful, James! He's taking off the cap. He's tipping the bottle. And he does it! It's the most beautiful
pour I've ever seen in my entire adult life!
(audience cheering) - I just wanna thank my family, and my partners at Valvoline. Nolan! Nolan! Now, back to the show. ♪ Whoa whoa whoa whoa ♪ ♪ Plymouth Barracuda ♪ - We did a YouTube community
post and this was, by far, one of the most requested. Some of you might not
even remember Plymouth, much less the 'Cuda, but Plymouth was Chrysler's budget brand,
tucked right underneath Dodge. Basically, the third gen 'Cuda shared the exact E-body chassis
with the Dodge Challenger. They basically had the same
engines and everything, but the 'Cuda was marketed as a more budget-friendly motorcar. Now Plymouth went belly up in 2001, six years after Post Malone was born, which is why the Plymouth PT Cruiser became the Chrysler PT
Cruiser, so when Dodge brought the Challenger
back a couple years ago, people were understandably peeved that the old 'Cuda was
left dead on the docks. No catch and release here. They didn't even eat him. They just caught him and
threw him there, fucked. Then his eyes got all white and he stunk. Then a bunch of kids
poked him with a stick. I saw a dead sea lion today. But peeve no longer because
I got a little proposal for my associates at Mopar,
and yes, I am Mopar-affiliated. Since the 'Cuda and Challenger
were basically the same car, it wouldn't be hard to
bring back the 'Cuda and finally give people what they want. Now, Dodge already has, not exaggerating, 13 different Challenger variants, so to make this one stand out, we'll have to do something
a little extreme. Our version will have no power
windows, no power mirrors, burlap seats, where my burlap boys at? A backseat that is one giant
molded piece, like a cop car, and the infotainment system
is just a plug for your phone. You gotta use your phone. There's speakers, but your
phone is the interface. The only luxuries in the
car is a pistol grip shifter connected to the 392 (beep)
Pack V8 with the shaker hood. Naturally. Change up the front to
look like the original, slap some gills on the
sides, and bam, bam, thank you, Margera, you
got yourselves a 'Cuda. Please build this, Dodge, please. ♪ Whoa whoa whoa whoa ♪ ♪ Toyota MR2 ♪ - Now this is another car
that you guys and gals on that post wouldn't stop talking about, just like that time last
week when I shaved my beard and everyone thought that
I was a different person. I'm the same guy. I just look worse. (funny trumpet music) Toyota MR2 is one of the most beloved cars in the brand's long history
of making beloved cars. It's an affordable mid-engine two-seater. Literally, the closest thing
we have to that right now is the C8 Corvette, which
is a very good value, but it still costs $60,000. Now it's been rumored that
the Mr. 2 is coming back for a couple years now, and
the hot goss is the Mr. 2 might come back as a
hybrid or even electric. (lively rock music) Now hear me out. I think that makes perfect sense. Toyota is aiming to launch an
entire line of EVs by 2025, so what's a better halo car than the MR2? Tesla basically already
proved this platform was good with the original Roadster, which was based on a mid-engined Lotus. Guys, I understand why we're reluctant to accept stuff like this. Change is hard, but electric
cars are already faster than internal combustion
cars, and I want someone to make one that normal people
like you and me can drive. Unlike the Mustang
Mach-E, this has potential to be an electric revival,
an electric revival, that doesn't disappoint
an entire fan base. Nay, nay, this could be a revelation. ♪ Mercury Cougar ♪ - Number eight is another
under-appreciated muscle car from the past. The Mercury Cougar was the more mature, slightly larger cousin to
the iconic Ford Mustang. Most muscle cars of that era were marketed to power-hangry youngsters
who didn't care about things like being comfortable. (scoffs) But the Cougar was designed and marketed to an older customer. You might not have
realized it, but the Cougar was around for a surprisingly long time. I'm talking 35 years. I'm talking eight generations. The last Cougar was a far cat-call from its muscle car origins, fizzling out as a front-wheel
drive chum bucket, but the Cougar name
used to mean something, so if they bring the Cougster back, it's got to be a lot more vascular than that front-wheel drive
chum bucket, but like Plymouth, the brand that built the
Cougar isn't around anymore, so we got to make the Cougar a trim level for an existing model in the Ford family. Just like the original Cougar, this buff cat needs to be comfy as heck. What I'm saying is a mega luxury Mustang, a Luxstang, if you will. I'm talking ultra-premium
leather from Lincoln, which is also owned by Ford, charcoal wood grade on the dash, massage seats with air conditionings, and a magnetic ride suspension that would let the Cougar
straight up eat miles on the interstate, and if that
doesn't sound good to you, you're not old enough. The question is, what engine do you use in a gentleman's muscle car like this? Well, if it were up to me, and it is 'cause this is a fantasy, I'd slap in the Coyote V8 from the Mach 1. Yes, I'm talking about putting
an engine named after a dog from a car named after a horse
in a car named after a cat. It sounds like the most
dangerous turducken possible, but if that big fat puppy
barks a little too loud for your liking, the 3.5 EcoBoost would be really, really good, too, maybe even throw an
additional electric motor on the front wheels. This is my fantasy, you guys. Also, why don't we just go ahead and make this the four-door Mustang that they keep talking about? (groans) It's my fantasy, you guys. Don't look at me like that. Don't stop looking at me, though. This is, don't stop. Top this thing off with
some old school touches like hideaway headlights and
some really luxurious wheels, and you get a car that I
wish would come out tomorrow. ♪ Honda CR-X. ♪ - This next car was
technically revived, sort of, but a lot of people wish that it wasn't. The original Honda CR-X
was a flat back derivative of the Civic produced between '84 and '91. In just seven short years, the
CR-X made a huge impression, just like Game of Thrones. Despite the car's humble
appearance, the light chassis and simple suspension made
it feel like a go-kart, and not one of those
go-karts at a mini-golf place that haven't been tuned up since '97 and you totally can't win if you're fat. I'm talking about a good
go-kart from Mario Kart Land. Fricking Donkey Kong is
just as fast as Toad. They were slow in the straights,
but they were fantastic, and Honda tried to relieve the nostalgia with the CR-Z in 2010. Now, today, people kind
of look down on the CR-Z, and I think it has to do
with these four words. It was a hybrid. Despite the fact that the CR-Z came with a manual transmission,
which is very, very cool for a hybrid, a lot of people didn't think that the performance and
driving feel lived up to the original, and the styling
was, it was a little weird, it was a little weird, it was weird, okay, it's a little weird. Not that weird as bad, I'm a little weird. Now that's not to say that
the car doesn't have a small, yet very devoted, following today, but it maybe could have been bigger if it was a little punchier,
so how can we right this wrong? This time around, we'll call it the CR-X. While the CR-Z was a spiritual successor, our car will be a direct
sequel, like 2 Top 2 Gun. Just like the original,
all a CR-X needs to be is a Civic Si with a flat butt. Behold, this crude render
that the director slash editor of this show, Max, put together. Tell me you wouldn't want to drive this. Tell me. Say it to my face. Say to Max's face. I'd give it the same Turbo VTEC engine that's in the Civic Si,
connected to a six-speed manual. Duh, duh, duh, duh. I think a little turbo
could redeem that tuner cred and make a resurrected
CR-X a serious contender against similar weirdo hot hatches like Nolan's favorite car, or my favorite set of twins' favorite car, the Hyundai Veloster. Do you guys know if The Straight Pipes are fraternal twins or identical twins? I mean, 'cause they look a lot alike, but maybe not exactly alike? Nolan thinks that they're identical and I think they might be fraternal but just look a lot alike. Let us know in the comments below. ♪ Lancia Delta Integrale ♪ - Lancia is responsible
for one of the greatest, best-looking, gnarliest
little rally cars ever, the Delta Integrale. The regular Delta was a front-wheel drive, economy hatchback, but the Integrale was an all-wheel drive weapon. It's probably the number
one car I would buy if you gave me enough money
to buy whatever car I wanted, and I know I say that
a lot, but this time, I mean it. So what is Lancia up to these days? Well, let's take a look. Oh, it's the Ypsilon, or Yipsilon. The company's only car for sale right now. Look at it. Guys, this company needs help,
and I have a prescription. Bring back the Delta, make it
a kinda squarish hatchback, retro but not too retro,
give it quad headlights and slap on some Albert wheel drive, maybe even a bump in
power, and bing, bam, boom. Thank you, we're done. Our creation would fit right in on the World Rallycross
starting grid, and if Lancia doesn't have enough money to
develop an entirely new car, which is expensive, they should do what literally almost
every other car company is doing right now, and joint
develop it with someone else. Partner up with Mitsubishi,
bring back a proper Evo. Hell, this car used to be called the Evo. Is that a coincidence? I don't know, guys. There's no such thing as coincidences. I'm not even a real person. You guys made me up. All cars are boys. ♪ My Little Red Express ♪ - In 1978, the fastest American car from zero to 100 miles
an hour was a truck. This truck also had one of
the absolutely cutest names of any vehicle ever. Li'l Red Express. So why did Dodge build a fast truck? Well, emissions
restrictions on the big V8s didn't apply to trucks, so Dodge put a honking 360-cubic-inch V8 with a four-barrel carb under
the hood of a Ram pickup. They put on a sportier and
less practical sidestep bed and installed the most iconic
modification to this model, stack exhausts. They serve no practical purpose other than looking completely bad-ass. This little red wagon was one
of the last factory hot rods of the 70s. It basically closed out the
muscle car era in Detroit. They sold less than 10,000
units between '78 and '79. All the cars on this
list, Li'l Red Express is probably the one
that has the best chance of making a comeback because
Dodge loves building crazy cars that no other car company
in their right mind would approve of. While other companies are focusing on hybrid and electric stuff, Dodge is literally
throwing a burnout party at the end of the world. I talk to Dodge on the phone sometimes. I brought, I said that to
them, and they were like, yeah, yeah, we're throwing a burnout party at the end of the world. Dodge already has plans to
build the Ram TRX this summer, a 707-horsepower tyrant built
to go against the Ford Raptor, but I think that they should
make a street version too, and what better name plate
than the Li'l Red Express? Here's how I would do it. I would take a regular cab,
short bed Ram 1500 chassis. I mean, they already call it the Express. Coincidences, guys. I'd drop a Hellcat motor in there. Fab up some sidesteps and give it those fricking exhaust stacks. I'm telling you, it would
pair perfectly with the TRX. Here's proof. All right. Tiny Red Xpress. Everything's connected! Here's a render of the Li'l Red Express that our friend, Abimelec Design, made. It's sick. ♪ Woo that Chevrolet El Camino ♪ - This next one is so
obvious, I can't even believe that I even have to put it on this list of cars they need to bring back. What if you wanted the
all-out performance of a car, but the practicality of a truck? What you get is what
Australians call a Ute, and the best-known Ute
that America ever got is the Chevy El Camino. Introduced in 1959 and
running all the way to 1987, the Elky is a folk hero. Looked down on by elitists, but
embraced by the working man. The El Camino was a
nearly perfect concept. It's like the Bruce Springsteen of cars. ♪ I got a car front end ♪ ♪ But I got the butt of a truck ♪ Now taking into account how angular Chevy's
design language is today, a modern iteration of the '69 El Camino would probably be Chevy's
best-looking model. Look, I know I've upset
a lot of you Australians over the course of the last few episodes, damn near the entire history of this show, with my inexcusable mistake of calling the Holden Maloo's tub a bed, but I'm still trying to
right that wrong, all right? And to do that, we're gonna
build the Elky in Australia. Open up the Holden factory,
stimulate the economy, you guys are gonna have so much money that you can buy all the
grilled foods that you want. Crab on the grill. ♪ Suzuki Samurai ♪ - I love Jeeps. ♪ I love Jeeps. ♪ There's nothing like driving
a Wrangler with my top off and also its top off, crawling over rocks and going through streams and cricks, but there's only one problem. Jeeps go beep beep, but they sure aint cheap,
cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap. Also, they're a hundred feet long now. There needs to be a cheaper,
dare I say, daintier option for those who get their kicks off-road. We gotta bring back the
Suzuki Samurai, you guys. We got to bring back the Suzuki Samurai. Say it with me, we got to
bring back the Suzuki Samurai, you guy. In 1987, the Suzuki
Samurai started at $6,500, a little under 15 grand in today's money. They were minimalist, but well-built. People weren't expecting anything fancy. They just wanted to drive
around with a top down and their shirt off and go off-road, and the Samurai was perfect for that. Now like the CR-X, the Samurai
has already come back kinda. Suzuki has the Jimny. It's very basic like the Samurai, it's cheap like the Samurai, and it looks like a heck of a
lot of fun, like the Samurai. It's also important to
note that it's very small. Unfortunately, it doesn't
look like the Jimny is coming to the US
anytime soon, which sucks. And unless Suzuki spends a ton of money updating the little
off-roader to pass tech, it'll never come here,
even if we wish it could. If you guys want to know
more about why certain cars aren't allowed to be sold in the US, it's pretty infuriating. Check out this episode of The D-List. It's actually our first
episode about awesome cars that we didn't get in America. ♪ Ford Escort RS ♪ - All right, this one
is gonna be a stretch, but I don't care because
it needs to come back. Ford doesn't build cars for
the US anymore, all right? They killed the Focus,
then the Fiesta in the US, and the only cars they build now are the Mustang and the Fusion. It sucks, but here lies the twist. I'm not saying that we bring
back the Focus and the Fiesta. I'm saying they bring
back another hot hatch that they killed years ago. The Ford Escort. Back in the day when rally was insane, Ford built a Group A homologation race car out of the Escort, the docile economy car, but they made a beast version. This beast version was literally a beast. The Escort RS Cosworth was
all-wheel drive, turbocharged, and had one of the best-looking wings the world has ever seen. It never won a WRC title,
but it did win hearts all over the world before
being replaced by the Focus, and here is how I would bring it back. Ford had an all-wheel
drive turbo rally beast in their stable until
recently with the Focus RS. Now we're gonna take
that, make it two-door, give it a more aggressive fastback hatch and give it a swallowtail
spoiler, just like the Escort RS. Then we're gonna call it the Escort and watch as people all over the country make dubious financial decisions to afford the crazy dealer markup that this thing is gonna have. Now I'm not saying it would be a success. I'm just saying that it would be cool. Just like most of the guys I
looked up to in high school. Time for our number one
pick for classic cars that they need to bring back. We've had a lot of fun with
this episode of The D-List. It's like a fricking brain
party, and if there's one thing that me and Max and
Nolan and Joe all love, it's a fricking brain party. So let's call an Uber and
send this brain party home. In 1974, Dodge went to bat
against the Blazer and the Bronco with a rowdy off-roader of
their own called the Ramcharger. It was based on the Ram
pickup, had two doors, and a removable roof. It was designed for having
fun and it succeeded. Dodge built the Ramcharger
in the US until 1993, but there were versions sold
outside the US until 2001. Now I'm no scientist from Jurassic Park, but I think the formula is pretty simple. You use a short bed Ram, give
it a long roof that comes off, the (beep) Pack 392, and four-wheel drive. Raise it up a bit, put
some knobby boys on there. Bing, bang, boom, let's go off-roadin'. You guys want to go camping this weekend? All right, yeah, let me check
my calendar, it's over here. I'm available. We have a certain affinity
for the term Ramchargers here at Donut. - Ramcharger. - But beyond that, we just think this will be a really, really fun truck and a really, really good time. So, I don't know, if anybody
from Dodge is watching, consider it. I want to give a big, big,
huge shout-out to everyone who contributed ideas
on our community post. Basically, you guys
helped write this episode and that is so cool. I want to do more stuff
like that in the future. If you like this video, check out this episode of Wheelhouse. It's called Why Cars Suck Now. It's hosted by one of my best buds, Nolan. It's really, really good. You should check it out. If this is your first Donut
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